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The future is bright and mobile and just a couple weeks away | Tumblr de Chartier
The future is bright and mobile and just a couple weeks away | Tumblr de Chartier minimalmac: Tumblr de Chartier: Instead of leaving the house with a heavy backpack and being reliant on limited, unreliable, sketchy wifi hotspots, I can grab a small satchel and do anything I want anywhere I want, including places where…
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Robots Can Now Tend Your Garden For You BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com Harvest Automation’s new robots are the latest addition to the farm. One of Harvest Automation’s new nursery bots can work 10 hours a day for $40—a lot less than even an illegal worker might get for the same job. And, as an employer, you…
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At the end of August 2000, a potentially historic meeting was held at the Carnegie Institute in Washington. The meeting was called by the National Coalition for Universities in the Public Interest, an advocacy organization founded in 1983 by the author, Leonard Minsky, Ralph Nader, and others to fight against the corporatization of higher education.…
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Comprehensively addressing the stupid, intellectually dishonest critique of Anita Sarkeesian
mostlysignssomeportents: Whenever the feminist games-critic and survivor of countless outraged misogynist stalkers Anita Sarkeesian’s name is invoked, there follows a flood of men who want to explain that she brought it on herself, that she isn’t a gamer, that she isn’t a good critic, and assorted related rubbish. Indeed, if you mention that Sarkeesian’s critics…
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Seventeen mysterious cellphone towers have been found in America which look like ordinary towers, and can only be identified by a heavily customized handset built for Android security – but have a much more malicious purpose, according to Popular Science. The fake ‘towers’ – computers which wirelessly attack cellphones via the “baseband” chips built to…