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Why does Jeff Bezos need a quantum computer?
News reached us last week of Jeff Bezos’ latest venture. According to Tom Simonite of the MIT Technology Review our favorite temp-scalding billionaire has just invested thirty million dollars in… Read more »
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Haruki Murakami is the odds-on favorite to win the Nobel Prize
This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature will be given out this week, so it’s time to get your bets in! GalleyCat reports that Haruki Murakami is the favorite to win the… Read more »
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Julian Assange to publish new book
The close quarters of the Ecuadorian embassy have not wearied Julian Assange. The United States’ OR Books have just announced that on November 26 they will publish his new book, Cypherpunks: Freedom and the… 1 / Read more »
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Writers now earning fractions of pennies per word
The unspeakable glamour of the writer’s life: Gawker reports on a new low in writers’ wages, stumbled upon in this Craigslist ad. The as-yet untraced company in Portland, Oregon, is searching… Read more »
