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Tripcon is a travel metasearch company built to emphasize natural-language queries on mobile devices as the main way consumers access hotel, flights, destination, and activities information. Type “I want to stay close to the Tokyo Tower” or “Hotel with a hot spring near Izu”, and the site will try to fetch relevant trip-planning information. Founded …

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Without realizing it, I joined the open source movement in 1999 during the midst of the Kosovo refugee crisis. I was part of a team helping route aid supplies to local humanitarian organizations running transit camps across Albania. These are the camps that refugees often arrived at first before being moved to larger, more formal …

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Apple’s virtual assistant Siri is about to be the most well-fed data science algorithm on the planet. Over the past year, Siri hasn’t looked good compared to her peers in the bot world — Facebook and Amazon have opened up their bot platforms to developers, while Siri has continued to be handcuffed to a handful of …

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My Miss Robot. Charles Mudede Let it be known that spoilers are indeed in this post, which concerns the penultimate episode of the second season of Mr. Robot, a TV show about a team of hackers who start a revolution by frying the computers of a bank owned by E Corp. The star of season …

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Posted By Ola Ric on Sep 15, 2016 | Share the joy                 Credit: https://twitter.com/twitter/status/774276250407886848 Sometimes you feel like you could just have someone read you a few tweets from your Twitter Timeline. The inspiration to read and ponder over some of your friend’s tweets is just not …

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