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High-Speed Firms Now Oversee Almost All Stocks at NYSE Floor

Global Trading Systems LLC agreed to purchase Barclays Plc’s business at the New York Stock Exchange floor, meaning high-speed trading firms now manage buying and selling of nearly all securities there. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the second quarter, weren’t disclosed…

Jan 27, 2016

This Is Why Understanding Space Is So Hard - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

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Comstock/Getty Images I f all the matter in the universe suddenly disappeared, would space still exist? Isaac Newton thought so. Space, he imagined, was something like Star Trek’s holodeck, a 3-dimensional virtual-reality grid onto which simulated people and places and things are projected. As…

Jan 27, 2016

A VR Cycling Experience for $40

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I’ve made an Arduino thing that can wirelessly talk to a mobile device over BLE and can now meter the revolutions of a wheel with an optical tachometer . I’m using these two hardware features to make a virtual reality (VR) cycling experience and I’ve got a working demo to share! Here’s how this…

Jan 26, 2016

Microsoft's new Minecraft Education Edition - written in C++ - will outrun the Java version | ZDNet

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Image credit: Microsoft This summer, Microsoft will release a beta of Minecraft: Education Edition written in C++ rather than Java, which looks like removing the performance problems associated with running the current version of Minecraft. The Education Edition should run well on the types of…

Jan 26, 2016

How Microsoft Plans to Beat Google and Facebook to the Next Tech Breakthrough

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The company behind Windows and Office is remaking its research arm to ensure its greatest inventions actually find their way into people’s hands. At a Microsoft executive retreat during his first month as chief executive officer, Satya Nadella saw a research project that captured his attention. The…

Jan 26, 2016

Why SoundCloud Will Be Worth More Than Spotify

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Alex Moazed Contributor Alex Moazed is the founder and CEO of Applico and co-author of Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy . More posts by this contributor The end of the automotive supply chain Why Clayton Christensen Is Wrong About Uber And Disruptive Innovation…

Jan 26, 2016

Take a Peek Into Our “X-Files” — Central Intelligence Agency

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Jan 26, 2016

Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement

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President Barack Obama. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Barack Obama is president of the United States. In 2010, a 16-year-old named Kalief Browder from the Bronx was accused of stealing a backpack. He was sent to Rikers Island to await trial, where he reportedly endured unspeakable violence at the…

Jan 26, 2016

A Tidal Wave of Corporate Migrants Seeking (Tax) Shelter

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DealBook In the fall of 2008, with General Motors and Chrysler on the precipice of bankruptcy, executives at the car parts supplier Johnson Controls flew to Washington. The company’s president testified before a Senate panel and implored lawmakers to bail out the auto industry. “Speaking for our…

Jan 26, 2016

projects:zsun-wifi-card-reader [hackerspace-pl]

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Table of Contents Hacking the Zsun WiFi SD Card Reader Current status What can I do with it? Hardware Hardware hacking Original firmware OpenWrt LEDE Backing up the original firmware Flashing Pictures Hacking the Zsun WiFi SD Card Reader The goal of this project is to learn as much as possible about…

Jan 26, 2016

App Economy jobs in the United States (Part 1) - Progressive Policy Institute

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Our latest study shows 1.66 million App Economy jobs in the United States, up from roughly 750 thousand in 2013. In Part 2 , we show the Top 25 App Economy states, led by California, New York, Texas, Illinois and Massachusetts. The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 created a profound new economic…

Jan 25, 2016

Copycat Kings: How Three Brothers Are Cloning the Web and Making Billions

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R ocket Internet is one of the most hated yet successful tech companies in the world. Part startup factory, part venture capital firm, the business strategy is to fund clones of Silicon Valley startups then grow them at lightning speed in European, South American, and Asian markets. Once Rocket…

Jan 25, 2016

The low tricks of high finance: how greedy bankers, weak politicians and timid journalists could cause a new crash

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It amazes me, simply amazes me, that journalists aren’t all over these stories. Doesn’t it amaze you too?’ I’m in a plush room in a swanky central London hotel, in conversation with Michael Lewis. He is all fired up, leaning forward as he perches on the hard edge of the cushion-strewn sofa. He oozes…

Jan 25, 2016

Anti-homeless spikes are part of a wider phenomenon of 'hostile architecture'

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It is called the Camden bench , after the local authority that originally commissioned the sculpted grey concrete seats found on London streets. The bench's graffiti-resistant sloping surface is designed to deter both sleeping and skateboarding. While not as obvious as the stainless steel…

Jan 25, 2016

The life-changing magic of simplistic solutions to complex problems

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TIDYING up is serious business. “Life truly begins only after you have put your house in order,” says Marie Kondo, whose bestseller “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying” has elevated a household chore into a process of emancipation and self-discovery. This audacious rebranding effort has proved…

Jan 25, 2016

The Atlantis-style myths that turned out to be true

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In one cataclysmic night, the gods sent a battalion of fire and earthquakes so intense that the Utopian kingdom of Atlantis sank deep into the ocean, never to be found again. So tells Plato's infamous myth, which has captivated audiences for more than 2,300 years. Many people have subsequently…

Jan 25, 2016

The Incredible Thing We Do During Conversations

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Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi / Reuters One of the greatest human skills becomes evident during conversations. It’s there, not in what we say but in what we don’t. It’s there in the pauses, the silences, the gaps between the end of my words and the start of yours. When we talk we take turns , where…

Jan 25, 2016

Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) Model S is Crushing Premium Car Market

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Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) is chipping away at the sales of its rivals in the luxury car space. 2015 saw the combined sales reports of premium cars in the U.S. weigh strongly in favor of the electric vehicle giant. Though Mercedes still tops the list as the best selling luxury car maker in…

Jan 25, 2016

Personal Space Is a Fear Response - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

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Rommel Canlas/Shutterstock E dward Hall, an American anthropologist, first defined “personal space” in the mid-1900s, when he noticed that its size varied widely from culture to culture: Southern Europeans and Latin Americans, for example, were “closer talkers”, while Northern Europeans and North…

Jan 25, 2016

Europe’s Top Digital-Privacy Watchdog Zeros In on U.S. Tech Giants

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Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, empowered by Europe’s highest court, will be at the heart of efforts to police how digital data is transferred outside of the European Union. Credit Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times PARIS — The latest standoff between Europe and American tech companies runs through…

Jan 25, 2016

Early Retirement Using Real Estate (The Real Story) - 1500 Days to Freedom1500 Days to Freedom

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I have a couple secrets to tell you today, so listen closely. Let’s get right to the first one: You don’t have to be a genius to be successful. A great brain is good for a lot of things, but it isn’t a requirement for building an awesome life. I’m a smart guy, but I’m never going to solve nuclear…

Jan 25, 2016

Scientists Find Hints of Hidden Planet in Our Solar System

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Two astronomers from Caltech say they have found evidence of a giant planet far beyond dwarf planet Pluto in the realm of icy bodies known as the Kuiper Belt. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Subscribe to the WSJ channel here: http://bit.ly/14Q81Xy More from the Wall Street…

Jan 25, 2016

Driving a Ford Model T Is a Lot Harder Than You'd Think! We Tried It

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Starting in 1908, Henry Ford sold his novel Model T cars as the first to be really accessible to the masses. What's more, he marketed them as easy to handle for casual drivers and (gasp!) women since they started with a button rather than a crank. Thing is, those old Model Ts were still pretty…

Jan 25, 2016

Fed Data Shows Your Chances of Becoming a Millionaire, and It's Eye-Opening

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Bloomberg went to economists at the St. Louis Federal Reserve with a question: would it be possible to calculate the odds of a becoming a millionaire for anyone in the U.S. weaving in traits such as age, education and race? Having already done extensive research in this area, bank researchers Bryan…

Jan 25, 2016

The Day the Mesozoic Died - Issue 32: Space - Nautilus

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“Understanding how we decipher a great historical event written in the book of rocks may be as interesting as the event itself.” —Walter Alvarez B uilt upon the slopes of Mount Ingino in Umbria, the ancient town of Gubbio boasts many well-preserved structures that document its glorious history.…

Jan 22, 2016

Google Paid Apple $1 Billion to Keep Search Bar on iPhone

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Google Inc. is paying Apple Inc. a hefty fee to keep its search bar on the iPhone. Apple received $1 billion from its rival in 2014, according to a transcript of court proceedings from Oracle Corp.’s copyright lawsuit against Google. The search engine giant has an agreement with Apple that gives the…

Jan 22, 2016

Venus flytraps 'able to count' in order to avoid false alarms, study finds

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Close up of fly standing on venus flytrapPhotograph: Adam Gault/Getty Images/OJO Images RF Venus flytraps can count, according to scientists who tested the carnivorous plants and found they use their mathematical skill to conserve energy and avoid false alarms. Researchers in Germany learned that…

Jan 22, 2016

Quantum Weirdness Now a Matter of Time | Quanta Magazine

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In November, construction workers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came across a time capsule 942 years too soon. Buried in 1957 and intended for 2957, the capsule was a glass cylinder filled with inert gas to preserve its contents; it was even laced with carbon-14 so that future…

Jan 22, 2016