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Incredible Website Shows Amsterdam's History Through 700,000 Pieces of Old Rubbish

Rivers in cities can easily fill with heaps full of rubbish, lost things, and industrial waste. But if the city has been around for a while, all of that rubbish can tell an incredible story. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/06/incredible-website-shows-amsterdams-history-through-700000-pieces-of-old-rubbish/
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Professor Ends Penis-Size Study Soliciting 3,600 Dick Pics, Citing 'Public Reaction'

Professor Alice Walker has halted a study on the relationship between penis size and self-esteem following an enormous public response she says has compromised the reliability of her research. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/06/professor-ends-penis-size-study-soliciting-3600-dick-pics-citing-public-reaction/
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5 questions for… Electric Cloud

As I am working on a DevOps report at the moment, I’m speaking to a lot (and I mean a lot) of companies involved in and around the space. Each, in my experience so far, is looking to address some of the key IT delivery challenges of our time – namely, how to deliver services and applications at a pace that keeps up with the rate of technology change? One such organisation is Electric Cloud. I spoke to Sam Fell, VP of Marketing, to understand how the company sees its customers’ main challenges, and what it is doing to address them – not least, the complexity of working at enterprise scale.   Where did Electric Cloud come from, what need did it set out to deal with? Electric Cloud has been automating and accelerating software delivery since 2002, from code check-in to production release. Our founders looked to solve a huge bottleneck, to address how development teams’ agile pace of software delivery and new technology adoption has outstripped the ability of operations teams to keep
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5 questions for… Nuance – does speech recognition have a place in healthcare?

Speech recognition has been on the brink of major success for decades, so it feels. Rather than set of generic “when will it be mainstream” questions, I was keen to catch up with Martin Held, Senior Product Manager, Healthcare at Nuance, to find out how things stood in this, specific and highly relevant context. How do you see the potential for speech recognition in the healthcare sector? Right now, the most gain will be from general documentation, enabling people to dictate instead of type, to get text out faster. In some areas of healthcare, things are pretty structured – you have to fill forms electronically, with drop-down lists and so on. That’s not a primary application for speech, but anything that requires free text, there’s no comparison or alternative. Areas where handwritten notes are put into notes fields, that’s a good application. Discharge notes can be also be very wordy. From a use case perspective, we’ve done analysis on how much time teams are spending on docume
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Sony Almost Made the Perfect Commuter Earbuds

By using earbuds with a hole in the middle and an innovative audio driver that sits behind your ear, Sony has created a truly unique listening experience that lets you listen to your favourite tunes without isolating you from the rest of the world. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/06/sony-almost-made-the-perfect-commuter-earbuds/
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Extinct Giant Panda Lineage Discovered Thanks to DNA From 22,000-Year-Old Skull

After sequencing DNA from the skull and comparing it to the genomes of modern-day giant pandas and 32 other ancient bears, researchers found this bear shared a common ancestor with today’s giant pandas around 183,000 years ago. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/06/extinct-giant-panda-lineage-discovered-thanks-to-dna-from-22000-year-old-skull/
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Instagram No Longer Notifies People If You Screenshot Their Stories So You Can Creep In Peace Again

You may once again return to your habit of subtweeting the stories of your friends, acquaintances, and celebrities without fear of being outed as the depraved screengrabber that you are. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/06/instagram-no-longer-notifies-people-if-you-screenshot-their-stories-so-you-can-creep-in-peace-again/
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iPhone Hackers May Already Have a Workaround for Police to Crack Apple's Newest Security Feature

Apple and the law enforcement community have been stuck in a back-and-forth over encryption for the last few years, and it’s heated up considerably this month. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/06/iphone-hackers-may-already-have-a-workaround-for-police-to-crack-apples-newest-security-feature/
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The Incredibles' Brad Bird Threw Out Almost Three Movies' Worth Of Material to Make the Sequel

Director Brad Bird didn’t spend the full 14 years since the release of the first Incredibles making Incredibles 2, but he’s been thinking about it the whole time. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/06/the-incredibles-brad-bird-threw-out-almost-three-movies-worth-of-material-to-make-the-sequel/
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China's Biggest Ridesharing Service Starts Limiting When Drivers Can Pick Up Passengers of the Opposite Sex

Didi Chuxing, China’s ridesharing giant, announced today that early in the morning and late in the evening its carpooling service will only pair passengers with drivers of the same sex. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/06/chinas-biggest-ridesharing-service-starts-limiting-when-drivers-can-pick-up-passengers-of-the-opposite-sex/
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A Mix-Up Meant Malware Could Have Posed as Apple Software, and Nobody Noticed for Over 10 Years

Security researchers on Tuesday unveiled a method that could’ve allowed hackers to bypass a wide range of commercial products designed to protect Apple devices from malware. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/06/a-mix-up-meant-malware-could-have-posed-as-apple-software-and-nobody-noticed-for-over-10-years/
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Weight Watchers Swears No Customer Data Exposed After Dozens of Servers Found Publicly Accessible

Weight Watchers denies that any of the data left publicly accessible was sensitive, and that the Amazon account linked to the exposure was a “testing environment used only to test new services and features,”. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/06/weight-watchers-swears-no-customer-data-exposed-after-dozens-of-servers-found-publicly-accessible/
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