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Savage Love: Father Figures
I'm a 37-year-old single father with a 14-year-old son. I've raised him on my own basically since birth, with help from some good friends and nearby family. Overall he's a good kid: gets decent grades, rarely gets in trouble. Our relationship isn't...
Tags: Daniel Hernandez, Harvey Milk, Social Media, Harvey Fierstein, The New York Times
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Aaron Swartz's suicide continues to ripple through Congress
Aaron Swartz may change the Internet yet again, even in death, with the help of lawmakers who have expressed a fondness for breaking the law. At a Washington, D.C., memorial Monday night, members of Congress and loved ones gathered to remember Swartz,...
Tags: Ron Wyden, Washington, DC, Computer Crime, Darrell E Issa, Zoe Lofgren
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Google Doodle celebrates Frank Zamboni's ice-resurfacing machine
Frank Zamboni, the man who invented the hypnotic Zamboni ice resurfacing machine, was honored Wednesday with a playable Google Doodle. It would have been his 112th birthday. Zamboni invented his ice-resurfacing machine back in the 1940s, after opening...
Tags: NASA, Sonja Henie, Google Inc., Human Interest, Easter
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As referendum looms, gay plays open theater season
During Jon Marans' "The Temperamentals," the season-opening play by Rep Stage about the gay rights movement, a woman raises the subject of marriage. "I definitely do not believe in homosexuals marrying," she says. She isn't talking about same-sex...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), United Kingdom, Minority Groups, Howard Community College, Interior Policy
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Pro-rated by dollars, Romney's Southern loss was enormous
Change of SubjectZeke Miller at Buzzfeed presents a chart that puts Mitt Romney's third-place finishes in Mississippi and Alabama last night into fairly harsh relief: In Mississippi, Romney's forces spent $6.89 per vote in TV money alone, compared to winner Rick Santorum.... -
Black List 2011: The Top 10 hottest scripts in Hollywood
24 FramesThe 10 hottest scripts in Hollywood -- check out the Black List 2011.... -
Black List 2011: The complete list of Hollywood's hottest scripts
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South Korean robot prison guards: R2-D2 maybe, not the Terminator
World NowSouth Korea prison robots artificial intelligence?: South Koreans develop robots to use as prison guards... -
Celebrate 11022011 with a palindrome, LOL
Nation Now11022011 palindrome day. Celebrate with palindromes: Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog!... -
John McCarthy dies at 84; the father of artificial intelligence
In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on "Automata Studies," but the phrase was so bland that few people understood what he meant. So he came up with a more provocative description of the idea he was promoting.
He called...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Game Playing, Heart Attack, Corporate Crime, Computer Networking and Internet
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Father of artificial intelligence dies in Calif.
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — John McCarthy, a pioneer in artificial intelligence technology and creator of the computer programming language often used in that field, has died. He was 84. Stanford University, where McCarthy was a professor for four...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Unix, Apple Inc., Stanford University, Steve Jobs
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Leo DiCaprio as computer pioneer Alan Turing? WB says ‘Yes!’
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelSince “The Social Network,” everybody seems to want a genius tech nerd film to call their own. The Steve Jobs bio-pic that is sure to come is partial proof. How about a story about WWII era computer pioneer Alan Turing, who helped crack the...
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