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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

8/2/16

8/2/16

News

  • Joe Biden marries two gay White House officials at his house
  • Data of 200 Million Yahoo Users Pops Up for Sale on the Dark Web
  • 'Reign of terror': Fear in the Philippines as police embark on state-sanctioned 'killing spree'

Science

  • Google's Alphabet is part of a $700 million effort to cure disease without meds
  • Formerly skeptical of Deep Learning, MIT's John Leonard (self-driving cars) now says "Ignore deep learning at your peril" at RSS workshop
  • One in three surgeries will use robots within the next five years

Showerthoughts

  • In sign language, arthritis is a speech impediment.
  • When doing the limbo, if you set the bar low, then you’re setting the bar high.
  • If I die in my sleep people will say "at least he died doing something he loved."

Cool Images

  • Shock wave
  • Skinning a painting
  • Mars' Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain in the solar system
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