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The ruling is the first to address the constitutionality of warrantless searches of historical location data stored by cellphone service providers. http://nyti.ms/13x6ZyF
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Growers turned to genetics in hopes of building a tougher orange tree. But what intervention would the public accept? An emerging scientific consensus held that
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Read moreWhat to Watch for in Obama’s Economic Speeches
Billed by the White House as expressions of his “one clear economic philosophy” President Obama is delivering big speeches on the economy Wednesday in Galesburg, Illinois,
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NYTimes: Obama Says Income Gap Is Fraying U.S. Social Fabric Widening income inequality and the weak recovery have undermined Americans’ belief in opportunity, President Obama
Read moreNobody ever got fired for buying a cluster – Microsoft Research
In the last decade we have seen a huge deployment of cheap clusters to run data analytics workloads. The conventional wisdom in industry and academia
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