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By pancake artist Nathan Shields, whose other creations we've previously featured.
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10:22 am Mon
May 12, 2014
Cephalopod pancakes
9th circuit: scraping publicly-accessible websites is fine
A company scraped information from public profiles on LinkedIn and LinkedIn sued it under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. LinkedIn lost, and now it loses again. Moreover, the court’s opinion takes aim at the company’s efforts to stop people from accessing information its users post publicly. The panel affirmed the district court’s preliminary injunction […]
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Stanford University sexual assault survivor Chanel Miller to release memoir
Meet Chanel Miller, the woman who was Emily Doe in the trial of rapist Brock Turner, a man treated with absurd leniency by the courts. The New York Times: For four years, the woman whose Stanford University sexual assault case caused a public outcry, has been known only as “Emily Doe.” In her new memoir, […]
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Babies turn into hairy "werewolves" after mislabeled Rogaine sold as antacid
A pharmaceutical lab in Spain mislabeled minoxidil (a hair-loss drug sold in the U.S. as Rogaine) as omeprazole (an antacid marketed as Prilosec). Excess hair growth resulted after babies were prescribed the latter and consumed the former, reports the New York Times. The children who took the mislabeled medicine, some of them babies, began growing […]
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Save over 25% on this open source portable gaming console
On the one hand, nostalgia is “a corruption of the historical impulse,” according to William Gibson. On the other hand, “Super Mario Bros.” will never not be cool. Luckily, there’s a way to satisfy that retro gaming while still keeping an eye on the future: The GameShell Kit. This thing is simultaneously the last handheld […]
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Boost your data analytics skills with this master class on Tableau
The field of data analytics can get intimidating, even for business professionals who constantly rely on it. But at its heart, its purpose is to simplify. To take mounds of information and distill their insights into a single clear picture. Currently, the go-to software for painting that picture is Tableau. And if you want to […]
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Save an extra $50 off DJI's answer to GoPro's 4K action cam
If you’re in the market for a stable, durable camera fully suited for first-person video, there’s a good chance that you’re the adventurous type. So why settle on a familiar name like GoPro? The DJI Osmo Action 4K HDR Camera checks off all the same boxes on the action cam checklist as the GoPro 4K […]
