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May 27, 2013
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May 27, 2013
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Computers Piecing Together Jigsaw of Jewish Lore - NYTimes.com

“One scholar likened it to finding the orphaned socks for generations of a family. Another compared it to law-enforcement’s use of DNA databases and face-recognition software.”

May 27, 2013
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Yup, synthcats.

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May 27, 2013
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Sony woos ‘Minecraft’ creator with golden PSone, VIP invite to E3

Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson has received an elaborate VIP invite to Sony’s Playstation 4 press event at E3: a golden PSone console. Despite Minecraft for Xbox 360 breaking XBLA records by selling over 6 million copies, Notch has been an outspoken critic of Sony’s main rival in the console business, Microsoft, largely due to what he sees as the company locking down its once “open” desktop OS with Windows 8 and the Windows Store. The developer also tweeted last week that he was unexcited by Microsoft’s new console, noting that he “wanted a game console, not a voice and gesture based tv remote box.”

May 27, 2013
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‘Blue is the Warmest Colour’ is the first comic book adaptation to win top prize at Cannes

Jury President Steven Spielberg says French film left him “absolutely spellbound”

May 27, 2013
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‘Arrested Development’: How are you watching the return of the Bluths? | The Verge Forums

Let’s get some hop-ons!

May 26, 2013
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Size matters: how I went from an iPhone to a really big Android phone

I thought I wanted something ‘iPhone-sized,’ but I was wrong

May 26, 2013
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The best writing of the week, May 26

Your Sunday reading

May 26, 2013
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The Classics: ‘Commandos 2: Men of Courage’

Dismantling the Nazi war machine has never required such finesse

May 26, 2013
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Supercell storms, which can tower more than fifty thousand feet over the prairie, are among the largest visible structures on earth. The inflow of a supercell storm feels similar to standing behind a jet blast at takeoff. These straight-line winds—which, along with the outflow winds, get sucked into the updraft and are super-cooled as they rise, then cascade back to earth, spreading out like pancake syrup—cause a significant amount of damage on their own. A tornado is a supercell’s destructive exclamation point.

Chasing Tornadoes in Oklahoma : The New Yorker

May 25, 2013
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