Could Robot Wars Become The Acceptable Face of Exceedingly Violent Bloodsports?
We might consider ourselves a bit more civilised than the toga-wearing sociopaths of antiquity, but we still want to watch terrible savagery in a purpose-built arena, and we still want to cheer at the sight of indiscriminate carnage.
July 27, 2016 at 04:03AM
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Chinese smartphone giant, Xiaomi, is best known for its range of cheap-but-solid smartphones. In recent years however, the company has diversified its offerings immensity adding everything from a rice cooker to smart luggage, TV’s and even an air purifier.
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Xiaomi no se corta un pelo y hoy lo ha vuelto a demostrar. La compañía ha presentado oficialmente su nuevo Mi Notebook Air, un descarado clon del MacBook Air que la firma ha utilizado además repetidas veces durante la presentación…
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Solar Panels for Low-Income D.C. Residents
Washington, DC, has embarked on an aggressive clean-energy plan, but a big challenge will be making sure it doesn’t worsen existing inequalities.
July 27, 2016 at 03:00AM
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By J. D. BIERSDORFER
Apple’s Photos for OS X has a button for one-click improvements to your pictures, but it also includes a toolbox for more detailed adjustments.
Published: July 26, 2016 at 07:00PM
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Si la opción de 2 TB de la nueva Xbox One S fastidiaba tu presupuesto, hoy al menos podrás saber hasta cuándo tendrás que esperar para poder hacerte con los modelos más económicos de 500 GB y 1 TB. Microsoft…
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about 3 startups that were disrupting the retail industry in Singapore. This week, I’m going to take a macro view of the startup landscape in Singapore.
Singapore, whose official languages include English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil, possesses the capacity to embrace people of multicultural backgrounds from all over Asia Pacific. Despite being an island city state with a population of just 5.5 million, Singapore boasts some of the world’s wealthiest citizens with GDP per capital at US$71,310 indicating strong spending power from its domestic consumers. Most importantly, its geographical location allows it to effectively present itself as a gateway to a population of nearly 600 million throughout the Southeast Asian region.
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Is the Billboard Hot 100 Broken? — The Ringer
How the “stream, steal, or buy” economy confounds the singles chart.
July 27, 2016 at 01:57AM
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Yahoo stopped the fight to turn around its struggling business on Monday by selling its core internet properties – its mailing platform, news sites and social media Tumblr – to Verizon for $4.83 billion. Now the company faces a new arduous task: How to deal with what’s left of it?
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