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Heidi Harley
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6 years ago
This week Google announced that the company will be joining CERN openlab, a partnership that will lay the foundation of future research in cloud computing, machine learning, and quantum computing. The biggest scientific laboratory also produces the...
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Heidi Harley
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6 years ago
There has been an international outcry and the World Bank withdrew a $300 million loan to Tanzania on Thursday
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Heidi Harley
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6 years ago
Computers as small and light as particles of dust are moving out of the realm of science fiction, according to a Wall Street Journal story published last week. It is already possible, although not entirely practical, to make computers the size of a...
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Heidi Harley
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6 years ago
Actually usable advice, from a fellow middle-aged man
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Heidi Harley
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6 years ago
On Nov. 18, 1978, followers of Pentecostal leader Jim Jones drank cyanide-laced punch. The U.S. military was left to deal with the aftermath
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Heidi Harley
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6 years ago
A man tweeted his observation about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's clothing and the internet has mocked him mercilessly with memes for it.
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Heidi Harley
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6 years ago
A scientist on a hike in the Canadian woods has discovered an organism that appears to sit on a new “major branch” of the evolutionary tree of life. Two species of the microscopic creatures, called hemimastigotes, were found in earth collected in No...
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Heidi Harley
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6 years ago
Archaeologists have uncovered portions of the ancient Greek city of Tenea, whose residents claimed they were prisoners of the Trojan War, the Greek Ministry of Culture announced this week.
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Heidi Harley
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6 years ago
You might think you're clever but could you answer the brainteaser interview question that Elon Musk has used to screen potential employees? To gauge responses to Musk's riddle, CNBC Make It recently took the question to the streets of Manhattan ,...
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Heidi Harley
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6 years ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson answers a riddle that Elon Musk reportedly asks engineers who are interviewing at his aerospace company SpaceX.
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Heidi Harley
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6 years ago
"It’s very good for society and for the economy, that is to have a lot of people competing and a few of them succeeding and most of them failing," Daniel Kahneman said. "That’s the way capitalism works.”
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Heidi Harley
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6 years ago
VERSAILLES, France (AP) — The Latest on a scientific meeting on how to define weights and measures (all times local):
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Heidi Harley
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6 years ago
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 2.4 million empty manufacturing jobs According to a new report from the consulting firm Deloitte, there will be 4.6 million American manufacturing jobs to fill i...