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Posted Tuesday, Jan 9, 2018 by Jeff Safire

A tussle this week between prominent investors and Apple Inc. over iPhone use by young people comes amid a nascent re-evaluation of the smartphone’s social consequences within the industry that spawned it.


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Posted Sunday, Dec 10, 2017 by Jeff Safire

This is an interesting discussion by Björn Hartmann on managing spatial data with machine learning. I found this fascinating given the amount of spatial data collected by our (U.S.) government. The tools available are fun to explore. Be sure to click on the 4th image to open the interactive dashboard.     – Jeff


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Posted Monday, Nov 20, 2017 by Jeff Safire

Scientists in the Large Hadron Collider’s LHCb collaboration recently announced spotting a new arrangement of three quarks, called the Ξcc++ or the “doubly charged, doubly charmed xi particle.” It had an up quark and two heavy charm quarks. But “most of these particles” with three quarks “containing two heavy quarks, charm or beauty, have…


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Posted Friday, Nov 17, 2017 by Jeff Safire

If you use a bunch of Firefox extensions, be forewarned – nearly all legacy extensions are not compatible as of this posting. Some of the most popular ones have been updated already, but those amount to only a few.     – Jeff


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Posted Wednesday, Nov 15, 2017 by Jeff Safire

Researchers claim Microsoft Word vulnerability, patched today, has existed for 17 years By Kelly Sheridan, DarkReading.com November 14, 2017 Microsoft today rolled out 53 security patches for the month of November as part of its regular Patch Tuesday update. One of the fixes addresses CVE-2017-11882, a flaw that has existed, unnoticed, in Microsoft Word…


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