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  1. they are looking for CHEAPER shipping on How Amazon's Drone Deliveries Will Work (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I read Amazon is considering buying an existing shipping fleet like UPS or building one of their own. They get burned every other Christmas by insufficient capacity. Drones are another option which may or may not be cheaper.

  2. Amazon has set up holding offices for universities on How Amazon's Drone Deliveries Will Work (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    University mailrooms arent set up to cope with hundred of boxes students are ordering. So they are partnering with businesses on universities to help them do this. Large apartment complexes have the same complaint. One US chain is refusign to hold packages at their admin office.

  3. avoid hitting your kid playing on porch? on How Amazon's Drone Deliveries Will Work (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I've heard of almost no drones outfitting with the full avoidance capabilities of a self-driving car.

  4. slates one in 1500 watched them on Al Jazeera America Terminates All TV and Digital Operations (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    28,000 viewers of 40 million cable availability

  5. heavily subsidized by Qatar on Al Jazeera America Terminates All TV and Digital Operations (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    And most of oil nations hurting from rock bottom oil prices. Maybe Qatar forced them to leave non Islamic areas.

  6. There is an energy bump observed at the very top energy of LHC after its recent restart. This is a double photon decay mode, hinting at an unanticipated new force vector particle. people have speculated a hgiher energy Higgs or even a Graviton.

  7. rumors happen in particle physics all the time on Scientists Struggle To Stay Grounded After Possible Gravitational Wave Signal (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You see possible signals. They usually want five standard deviations as proof, but start getting excited around three. Higgs went through several years of this.

  8. The measurements are exactly consistent with Einstein and no other theory. But they did not directly see waves in this project. The energy loss loss has to go somewhere with gravity radiation the best candidate.

  9. sounds like they dont know computers on Major Health Organization Stops Forcing Doctors To Adopt New Technology (internalmedicinenews.com) · · Score: 0

    Kaiser was doing fine with computerized records 15 years ago and before the Obama stimulus.

  10. US has at 1,000,000 genomes project or two on First Children Have Been Diagnosed In 100,000 Genomes Project (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Craig Ventor, who supplied the first genome, intends to sequence a million by 2020. Not a shy guy.
    http://www.technologyreview.co...

  11. WIMPS million times less detectable on The Hardware That Searches For Dark Matter (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I googled various interaction probabilities, which are expressed in units called barns:
    http://www.physics.purdue.edu/...

    neutron hitting uranium nucleus: 1 barn
    helium nucleus hitting gold nucleus: 100 barns (Rutherford experiment 1911)
    anti-neutrino captured by proton making a neutron: 10E-17 barns (first detected 1956)
    WIMP hitting a xenon nucleus: 10E-21 barns? (year???) need to 10,000 times better than neutrino detector

    Numbers are actually ranges including factors like particle energy and angle.

  12. github has changed the nature of free software on The FSF Is 30 Years Old; Where Should They Go From Here? (fsf.org) · · Score: 1

    Open source-code is now manageable in a semi-professional manner. A user can offer his/her own code or participate in others projects. (kudos to githubs oredecssors too)

  13. he is about due for a gold watch - age 65 on The FSF Is 30 Years Old; Where Should They Go From Here? (fsf.org) · · Score: 1

    Many of his generous labors were not paid very well.

  14. Only 40% in USA work fulltime on Why Do Americans Work So Much? · · Score: 2

    131M out of 320M. Another 26M work less than 35 hours a week bringing all workers to 52%. 68M of the 320M are under 16 or over 65. Excluding them would make it 59% workers then. http://www.bls.gov/news.releas...

  15. Gates and Koch dinner about Common Core on K12CS.org: Microsoft, Google, Apple Identifying What 1st Graders Should Know · · Score: 0

    I was just read an article about the demise of Common Core. Many tech titans enthusiastically promoted Common Core as good for education and good for future employees. But the political right opposes this as big government and because it is an idea of the current president. The article said that Bill Gates has gone as far to to meet with Charles Koch to see if they find any common ground fora joint education initiative. The result of the dinner was not reported.

    This initiative sounds like another proposal along similar lines that could die in the political culture wars.

  16. Yellow Cab bankruptcy in San Francisco on Uber In Retreat Across Europe · · Score: 1

    For reorganization of debts, not liquidation. San Francisco is the epicenter of the sharing economy.

  17. NEIC reports a 5.1M quake there on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    But the NEIC did not post a source mechanism yet. Faults and explosions have clearly distinction source mechanisms. An explosions "first motion" on a seismogram is outward in all 360 directions. A fault shows four quadrants of motion- alternating in and out. Usually the NEIC posts a moment tensor solution of its own or from a university within minutes of a new large quake. I just looked.

    P.S. Faulted quakes and explosions have other, more subtle distinguishing characteristics devised to bypass Russian and Isreali test cheating in the past.

  18. Is the Milky Way black hole naked? on The Mystery of the Naked Black Hole (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Else we would have been fried by radiation if it wasnt. We know we have a BH or a modest size from fast moving stars near it.

  19. largest US company 1932 to 2000 #6 now on GM Dumps $500 Million Into Lyft (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Oil companies over took them for a while, then software companies.

  20. 2015 VR much better than 80s or 90s on Virtual Reality Predictions For 2016 and Beyond (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    VR has been around over 30 years since Jared Lanier coined the term. The early stuff was basically 3D line drawings with noticeable delays to head movement. That gave some people nausea.

    Flash to 2015 SIGGRAPH. I tried tried models from Oculus and Sony. They were so fast and good that they made nauseous in another way. When I tried the Sony tightrope walk demo I was scared of falling because it seemed so real. Another company's demo put me on a skateboard at 50 mph and I was scared too.

  21. before 1948 a computer was a human clerk on The Power of Crowds and "Human Computation" (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Before electronic computers, the word computer meant a clerk who calculated stuff like business accounts, insurance tables, ballistic paths, mathematical tables, etc. They wee first males, but during WWI and WWII females predominated as computers. When electronic computers started in the 1940s, the adjective electronic prefaced computer to show it was a machine and better than people. Then after a decade or so the word computer solely meant the machine.

    Some of the earliest computer programmers when women who used to work as human computers and switched over to machines. This slowed the adoption of computer science in universities because programming was seen a female trade school activity.

  22. competant remake of the 77 and 80 movies on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Abrams, et. al. didnt really introduce anything substantially new, but re-arrangements of earlier material. No new planets, plot twists, races, character types, special effects ... It was safely done without any overdose of computer graphics like the clone armies or rubber-Jar Jar. For these reasons, I'd probably say it is the movie I'd least like to see again of the seven.

  23. your documentary on the Singularity on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil a question · · Score: 2

    I saw it at the Breckenridge film festival a few years back, where you hosted it. I was hoping it would make it into general release into the arts theaters, but it didnt. For those who havent seen it, it is combination of a history of A.I. from its luminaries and a scifi treatment of life might be like near the time of the Singularity. Any plans for further development of this documentary?

  24. not the first time, when will MSFT fix it? on PhantomSquad Hackers Begin Their Xmas DDoS Attacks By Taking Down EA Servers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    PS may be a-holes, but they pointing out an unfixed problem.

  25. Susskinds "Black Hole Wars" gives background on Physicists Theorize Out How To Retrieve Information From a Black Hole (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Of the information loss paradox and various fixes. The "holographic universe" is another fix. That is copy of information inside the BH exists imprinted on the event horizon.