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Why Enterprise Software Sucks (twitter.com)
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Show HN: Bel (paulgraham.com)
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Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project (www.theverge.com)
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Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier (www.nytimes.com)
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Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku (github.com)
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I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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Apple Told Some Apple TV+ Show Developers Not to Anger China (www.buzzfeednews.com)
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Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey (netblocks.org)
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SerenityOS: From Zero to HTML in a Year (www.serenityos.org)
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600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (blog.jayway.com)
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SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering (www.sec.gov)
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Everything Is Getting Louder (www.theatlantic.com)
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Uber Go Style Guide (github.com)
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Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, has died at age 85 (www.cbsnews.com)
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AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering (spun.io)
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Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15 (mjtsai.com)
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ITA's old “Hiring Puzzles” is still a treasure trove of good problems (web.archive.org)
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You Never See Your Friends Anymore (www.theatlantic.com)
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Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64 (https://www.hirensbootcd.org)
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Fast inverse chirp z-transform found (techxplore.com)
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Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first (instagram-engineering.com)
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Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament (news.blizzard.com)
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Linear Algebra and Applications: An Inquiry-Based Approach (scholarworks.gvsu.edu)
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How to write fast code in Ruby on Rails (engineering.shopify.com)
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Spygate: Credit Suisse scandal shakes Zurich’s elite (www.swissinfo.ch)
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Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests (curl.trillworks.com)
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ScummVM 2.1.0 (www.scummvm.org)
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Ask HN: How many of you have been impacted by a layoff? (item?id=21229345)
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Love Letter to Clojure (itrevolution.com)
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California Blocks Police Body Cam Use of Face Recognition (www.aclu.org)
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Photos of Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology (www.nytimes.com)
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Monzo: How our security team handle secrets (monzo.com)
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Microsoft open sources SandDance, a visual data exploration tool (cloudblogs.microsoft.com)
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“Dune” Endures (www.newyorker.com)
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Quintillion CEO’s Promise to Wire the Arctic Was $1B Scam (www.bloomberg.com)
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Alloy is a language for describing structures and a tool for exploring them (github.com)
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WeWork Could Run Out of Cash by Next Month (www.ft.com)
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The Navy's Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is Wild (www.popularmechanics.com)
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Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab? (item?id=21231508)
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Lost transcription of Tale of Genji chapter found in Japanese storeroom (www.theguardian.com)
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New York's Strand bookstore fights back over landmark status (www.theguardian.com)
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Show HN: A news aggregator for the Python community written in Python/Django (github.com)
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Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing' (www.bbc.co.uk)
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A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer (arstechnica.com)
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HamWAN: A modern, multi-megabit, IP-based, digital network for amateur radio use (hamwan.org)
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Why are adult daughters missing from ancient German cemeteries? (www.sciencemag.org)
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Fibers aren’t useful for much any more (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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The 50 Most Influential Tall Buildings of the Last 50 Years (ctbuh2019.com)
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China has increased harmful fishery subsidies by 105% (www.nationalgeographic.com)
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Fixing the World (2011) (zguide.zeromq.org)
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Objc_msgSend's New Prototype (www.mikeash.com)
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MNT Reform DIY Laptop (mntre.com)
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iPadOS review: The iPad is dead, long live the iPad (arstechnica.com)
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Show HN: Git-remote-s3 – push and pull Git repos to/from s3, encrypted using GPG (github.com)
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The Myth of a Wilderness Without Humans (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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We Prefer Coding Challenges (gravitational.com)
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The True Cost of a PhD: Giving Up a Family for Academia (www.jamesgmartin.center)
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Libc++ 9.0.0 adds explicit support for WASI (releases.llvm.org)
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The Crash of Air Moorea Flight 1121: Analysis (medium.com)
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Categories: Models of Models (www.lesswrong.com)
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Lion-Man (en.wikipedia.org)
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Game Boy SoC (DMG-CPU) reverse-engineered from the die photos (github.com)
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Her iPhone died. It led to her being charged as a criminal (www.zdnet.com)
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Elizabeth Warren targets Facebook's ad policy – with a Facebook ad (edition.cnn.com)
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Show HN: An API to encode and decode coordinates using Geohash (geohash.world)
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Telepresence Robots Are the Future of Remote Work (hackernoon.com)
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Out of This World: An Oral History of Alf (2016) (mentalfloss.com)
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Bone marrow was kept in a Stone Age meat locker (www.nytimes.com)
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iPhone 11 Pro Has Broken Exif Orientation Data (blog.feld.me)
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Show HN: You will die in X weeks (www.failflow.com)
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Work of renowned UK psychologist Hans Eysenck ruled ‘unsafe’ (www.theguardian.com)
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Apple Content Cache Reverse Engineered (github.com)
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JavaScript Illustrated: Promises (medium.com)
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Standard Cognition (YC S17) buys cashierless DeepMagic (techcrunch.com)
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Google Made “Substantial” Contributions Towards Climate Change Deniers (www.euronews.com)
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I wrote an eBook on pickling fresh olives (write.as)
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Invaluable life lesson of listening to your 'end-users' and solving problems (mailchi.mp)
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Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress, and procedurally generated story telling (www.gamasutra.com)
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A Monk of the Secular Age (www.neh.gov)
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Rethinking Our Vision of Success (www.edge.org)
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Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar (www.damninteresting.com)
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Git Essentials Crash Course (www.jee.gr)
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The End of uBlock Origin for Google Chrome? (www.ghacks.net)
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When Chinese Employees Ask for Justice, Facebook Silence Their Voices (en.pingwest.com)
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Spoof UK Government’s Brexit Propaganda (ledbydonkeys.com)
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Would you give up Google for $17,000 a year? The Fed wants to know (www.cnbc.com)
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Archive Lush (thesewaneereview.com)
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Ask HN: How to get more familiar with cryptography? (item?id=21224015)
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Mediterranean is warming up faster than the rest of the planet, report warns (elpais.com)
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Triangular Grids (2014) (symbo1ics.com)
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Reconsidering the Anthropocene (www.theatlantic.com)
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Marco Arment: “I hope Apple wise enough to start removing themselves from China” (twitter.com)
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What Economists (Including Me) Got Wrong About Globalization (www.bloomberg.com)
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Exec helps re-energize Platt Electric (2010) (www.oregonlive.com)
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Espalier (Formerly Object Spreadsheets) (sdg.csail.mit.edu)
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Poll: Hacker News Functionality (item?id=21231804)
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WeWork could run out of cash by next month (qz.com)
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CI/CD Pipelines with Gitlab (solidstudio.io)
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Creating The World's Greatest Anagram (2015) (priceonomics.com)
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Frank Herbert on the Origins of Dune ( 1965) (archive.org)
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Show HN: Coding Tips Every Monday (item?id=21231655)
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Abiy Ahmed Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (www.nytimes.com)
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Official FAQ on CoC Changes and Pronouns (meta.stackexchange.com)
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Google San Jose HQ Plans Expanded (www.cnbc.com)
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Emacs: Abbrev Mode Tutorial (ergoemacs.org)
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If Software Is Eating the World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect? (2011) (item?id=21230369)
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What happens when you re-upload a YouTube video 1000 times (youtube.com)
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Show HN: Betting game where you can choose your prize or your chance of winning (kaue.me)
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When inmates design prisons for rehabilitation (2016) (99percentinvisible.org)
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Operational Transformation (en.wikipedia.org)
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After using both, I regretted switching from Terraform to CloudFormation (medium.com)
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Show HN: Aes.vbs – AES-256-CBC Encrypt and Decrypt in VBScript for legacy apps (github.com)
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Show HN: Online SVG XML Editor (owenshen24.github.io)
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A new Mona Lisa queuing system (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Enriching Bert with Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Document Classification (arxiv.org)
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Brings TypeScript to Tailwind CSS (github.com)
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Kubernetes 3rd Party Security Audit Findings (github.com)
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The Insecure Elephant in the Room (casecurity.org)
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Rent-a-troll: Researchers pit disinformation farmers against each other (arstechnica.com)
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The Future of Energy Storage – Professor Yet-Ming Chiang, MIT (www.youtube.com)
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CppCon 2019: Andrei Alexandrescu “Speed Is Found in the Minds of People” [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Ask HN: Good Discussion Forums for Static Program Analysis? (item?id=21222928)
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Laser cutters sold on Amazon and elsewhere are cheap, fun–and dangerous (www.fastcompany.com)
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Migrate Your AWS Node.js Lambda Functions to Kubernetes (sysadmins.co.za)
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Fibers under the magnifying glass (2018) [pdf] (www.open-std.org)
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Astronomers spot ‘cosmic web’ that sticks the universe together (nypost.com)
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RedHat Dismisses CFO (www.wraltechwire.com)
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Show HN: Lambash, a WIP λ-Calculus Unix Shell Written in Rust (github.com)
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Show HN: Community for Remote Workers (remotehub.io)
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Joint Statement on Advancing Responsible State Behavior in Cyberspace (www.state.gov)
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Parsec: Open-Source Platform Agnostic Security Layer (github.com)
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To Prevent Climate Catastrophe We Must Learn Cooperation and Solidarity (www.currentaffairs.org)
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Ask Mr. Science: How to securely manage your passwords (jasonlefkowitz.net)
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Show HN: RoboStopper – Get paid by spam/unwanted callers or block them (https://robostopper.app)
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The Word “Hacker” (2004) (www.paulgraham.com)
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iPadOS review: The iPad is dead, long live the iPad (arstechnica.com)
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Webassembly.sh – online WebAssembly Terminal to run WASI modules on the browser (medium.com)
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Imperative Infrastructure as Code Using AWS CDK (blog.kylegalbraith.com)
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Show HN: Smart American Roadtrips (https://curiosio.com?iso=us)
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Adobe Reader Symbols (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
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Facebook paid just £28m tax after record £1.6bn revenues in UK (www.theguardian.com)
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The first all-female spacewalk is scheduled for this month (www.cnn.com)
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The IRS will ask taxpayers if they own cryptocurrencies in new 1040 tax form (www.theblockcrypto.com)
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A New Way to Capture and Convert C02 Efficiently Has Been Developed (interestingengineering.com)
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In “Catch and Kill” Ronan Farrow Offers a Damning Portrait of a Conflicted NBC (www.npr.org)
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Driverless cars are stuck in a jam (www.economist.com)
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