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Thursday, August 25, 2016

the guardian: Martin Rowson on Donald Trump and Nigel Farage – cartoon


Martin Rowson on Donald Trump and Nigel Farage – cartoon
the guardian

Farage won cheers by sticking to his time-honed rhetoric of slightly shaggy populism, heavy with generalist calls to national pride and taking back control Read the full story


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Digital Trends: IBM attacks AMD's 'Zen' with new details about Power9 processors for servers


IBM attacks AMD's 'Zen' with new details about Power9 processors for servers
Digital Trends

During the Hot Chips 28 convention, IBM spilled the details of its Power9 processor architecture for servers that's built for a "cognitive era." The CPUs will be served up in 24- and 12-core form factors for the Linux and PowerVR ecosystems. Read the full story


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Digital Trends: Why the world's fastest quantum computer ... really isn't a quantum computer


Why the world's fastest quantum computer ... really isn't a quantum computer
Digital Trends

Over the past six-and-a-half years, Lockheed Martin has made steady upgrades to its Quantum Computation Center — and now the company has a potent 1,152-qubit rig at its disposal. But it's not exactly a quantum computer. Read the full story


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Innate Immunity and Asthma Risk in Amish and Hutterite Farm Children — NEJM

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1508749?query=featured_genetics&

results of our studies in humans and mice indicate that the Amish environment provides protection against asthma by engaging and shaping the innate immune response.

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Why the Amish could hold the key to curing asthma and allergies

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Why the Amish could hold the key to curing asthma and allergies

http://usat.ly/2bd6iar


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Dining around Arizona: 12 best restaurants in Flagstaff

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Dining around Arizona: 12 best restaurants in Flagstaff

http://azc.cc/2b8TdyF


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Thursday, August 11, 2016

MinnPost: The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol


The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol
MinnPost

It was mid-March 1992, and Mark McCahill had never been to San Diego before. Back home in Minneapolis, the skies had been dumping snow for six months, and would keep at it for several more weeks. McCahill checked into the Hyatt Islandia, an 18-story high-rise hotel overlooking Mission Bay. "There were palm trees," he recalls. "Boy, was it nice." McCahill was then in his mid-30s and managing the Microcomputer Center at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, which facilitated the emerging use of Read the full story


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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

TheStreet: Intel's AI Acquisition Represents a Fresh Challenge to Nvidia and ARM


Intel's AI Acquisition Represents a Fresh Challenge to Nvidia and ARM
TheStreet

Acquiring startup Nervana Systems puts Intel on better footing to service booming demand for processors used to handle artificial intelligence algorithms. Read the full story


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