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Why are Target and Walmart creating their own mobile payment solutions?(quora.com)
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@JunkDNA, you seem to know Pharma R&D & patents. An excellent read on another case coming up before the Indian Supreme Court, regarding Swiss drug co. Novartis's blockbuster anti-cancer drug Gleevec. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/
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As an Indian, i am always envious & jealous of how govt agencies & systems work so much better in the US than in India. So i was really shocked to see this blog post, after the said govt agency's credibility has been seriously damag
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TTGB (things that go boom) to be precise FTFY :)
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From Bruce Schneier's blog scheier.com FBI Special Agent and Counterterrorism Expert Criticizes the TSA http://gmancasefile.blogspot.in/2012/01/tsa-fail.html ( http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/02/fbi_special_ag... )
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Holoflector is awesome too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xv6FnM1SrE Here is a list of some other cool MSR projects. http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2012/02/27/microsoft... Seattle HNers, MSR's annual showcase TechFest is happ
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via The Verge http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/27/2829828/microsoft-illumish...
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Illumishare:Brilliant new MSR device(camera+projector) to share physical spaces (youtube.com)
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#education I am interested to know what other folks think of the potential to build low cost PCs using Raspberry Pi (RPi) for education in India & the developing world. I am curious to know what other people think of OLPC XO3 vs RPi vs
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Intel’s next big bet - Cell towers in the cloud = Cloud-RAN(gigaom.com)
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Gates donates $750 million to fight AIDS, TB and malaria(edition.cnn.com)
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replace('complement', 'compliment')
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Another good account of Air France 447, slightly less technical though & focussed more on the recovery effort . http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/magazine/mag-08Plane-t.htm...
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Apple loses lawsuit in China, has to pay $1.6 billion or rename iPad(indianexpress.com)
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Just saw another brilliant Jobs quote, circa 1991, via my svlug friend Rick Moen. I think one of the things that really separate us from the higher primates is that we are tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomo
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26-year old iconoclast Steve Jobs' address to the Academy of Achievement in 1982
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AMAZING ! Thanks for sharing.
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Great find @padmanabhan01, i think this talk is not very widely known about. Direct link to the audio talk by SJ : http://www.achievement.org/newsletter/audio/jobs-aud.mov
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One of the most insightful comments . Great articulation @kubrickslair
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(via https://www.facebook.com/ashish007/posts/280049325344028 )
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(via https://www.facebook.com/ashish007/posts/223031457746543 )
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The books she mentions in her talk " Travels on my elephant" - by Mark Shand http://www.amazon.com/Travels-my-Elephant-Mark-Shand/dp/0879...
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A must see TED talk by Sheena Iyengar on cultural differences in choosing(youtube.com)
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An inspiring & beautiful talk by Caroline Casey on moving beyond our limits(youtube.com)
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An older 2009 NYT article http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/business/08novel.html?_r=1
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Another related article on flow cytometry http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-engineers-create-c...
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1. Talk by Prof. Aydogan Ozcan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FQUHhdGUII&feature=playe... 2. UCLA video of cellphone microscope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH5H6uSQUFE
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UCLA researchers develop handheld lens-less hologram $100 microscope(sciencedaily.com)
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Some insightful discussion @ Berkeley TIER's mailing list https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/pipermail/tier/2011-Augu...
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I am appaled by BART PD's fatal use of force now in 2 instances - Oscar Grant(1January2009, in which BART settled with the Grant family for $ 1.5 million) and Charles Blair Hill (3July2011). In both cases, BART PD decided NOT to use non-let

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