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Elevated Buses That Ride Right Over Traffic Might Be The Future Of Mass Transit

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Elevated Buses That Ride Right Over Traffic Might Be The Future Of Mass Transit

Article of the day for May 27, 2016

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Article of the day is A Quiet Night In. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Picture of the day for May 27, 2016

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Picture of the day on May 27, 2016: The Kunstkamera Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Article of the day for May 27, 2016

The Article of the day for May 27, 2016 is A Quiet Night In . "A Quiet Night In" is the second episode of the British dark comedy anthology series Inside No. 9. Written by Reece Shearsmith (pictured) and Steve Pemberton, it first aired on 12 February 2014 on BBC Two. It stars the writers as a pair of hapless burglars attempting to steal a painting from the large, modernist house of an oblivious quarreling couple, played by Denis Lawson and Oona Chaplin—a granddaughter of the silent film star Charlie Chaplin. The episode progresses almost entirely without dialogue, relying on physical comedy and slapstick. Critics generally responded positively to the episode, and a particularly laudatory review by David Chater was published in The Times. On its first airing, the episode was watched by 940,000 viewers (4.8% of the market). It was submitted to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for their 2015 awards, but was not nominated. Pemberton and Shearsmith are not planning

Picture of the day for May 27, 2016

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The Kunstkamera Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia..

stitch up: Word of the day for May 27, 2016

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Word of the day is stitch up : To close by sewing. (slang) To maliciously or dishonestly incriminate someone.

How John Hinckley Lives Now

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How John Hinckley Lives Now He drives a Toyota. He eats fro-yo. He shops at PetSmart. You just might run into him.

How John Hinckley Lives Now

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How John Hinckley Lives Now

Elevated Buses That Ride Right Over Traffic Might Be The Future Of Mass Transit

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Elevated Buses That Ride Right Over Traffic Might Be The Future Of Mass Transit This high tech bus model was introduced at this year's China Beijing International High-Tech Expo. The engineers behind it claim that the vehicle would function similarly to a subway but would cost one fifth less to construct. May 26, 2016 at 06:46PM

stitch up: Word of the day for May 27, 2016

stitch up , v : To close by sewing. (slang) To maliciously or dishonestly incriminate someone.

Google wins trial against Oracle as jury finds Android is “fair use”

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Google wins trial against Oracle as jury finds Android is “fair use”

Google wins trial against Oracle as jury finds Android is “fair use”

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Google wins trial against Oracle as jury finds Android is “fair use” Oracle has spent many millions trying to get a chunk of Android, to no avail.

Why the Very Silly Oracle v. Google Trial Actually Matters

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Why the Very Silly Oracle v. Google Trial Actually Matters

Why the Very Silly Oracle v. Google Trial Actually Matters

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Why the Very Silly Oracle v. Google Trial Actually Matters A cloud of uncertainty already hangs over the ongoing work of many developers (and existing reimplementations of APIs). And if Google loses at this stage, the cloud grows even thicker.

Gchat was the future of messaging, why did Google make other chat products?

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Gchat was the future of messaging, why did Google make other chat products? 10 Years ago people didn’t necessarily understand that they could use Gchat the way they use Slack now.

Gchat was the future of messaging, why did Google make other chat products?

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Gchat was the future of messaging, why did Google make other chat products?

Mossberg: Can Apple win the next tech war?

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Mossberg: Can Apple win the next tech war? Apple could have a very hard time in the AI war that's dawning — even though it actually pioneered the first widespread, voice-controlled, cloud-based AI assistant, Siri.

Mossberg: Can Apple win the next tech war?

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Mossberg: Can Apple win the next tech war?