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Jason Gots, Big Think, July 19, 2015 It’s well-established (and completely obvious) that optimism is a bit delusional, especially if you don’t believe in some form of Heaven or live in a hermetically sealed Utopian community where life has been...
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Robert Barba, Bank Technology News, July 17, 2015 JPMorgan Chase is poised to launch a new home page for Chase Bank this weekend — and the design is decidedly not bank-like. While customers can still use it to sign in and manage their accounts, it is set to offer...
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Rob Price, Business Insider, July 17, 2015 People have been injured in a crash involving one of Google’s self-driving cars for the first time, project head Chris Urmson wrote in a post on Medium on Thursday. One of the California tech company’s...
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Jon Ronson, The New York Times Magazine, July 16, 2015 An interview with Phil Zimbardo who conducted a psychological experiment at Stanford in 1971 that became the basis for the film “The Stanford Experiment” states that it conveys to the general...
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Dennis Fisher, Threatpost, July 16, 2015 Google is expanding the use of its Safe Browsing mechanism to warn users about a broader variety of unwanted software, in addition to the warnings they see regarding phishing pages, malware, and other threats. […read...
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Eric Newcomer and Julie Verhage, BloombergBusiness, July 16, 2015 Along with hailing a car, Uber riders in New York City can now summon a vision of a dystopian future where a car takes 25 minutes to show up. The new “feature” appears as a button...