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    TSMC’s $65 billion bet still leaves US missing piece of chip puzzle

    Furthermore, ASML products rely on substantial contributions from their US subsidiaries.
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    NASA wants to bring back supersonic airliners—but quieter this time

    From the article: "“NASA wants this airplane geared toward business travelers, people who want to put that premium value on time and pay extra money to get there sooner,” Richardson added" Echoing other commenters: is that truly NASA's mission? I can see value in developing better aeronautics...
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    France says AZERTY keyboards fail French typists

    A number of adjectives also end in "ique," similar to English' "ic." It's magic / C'est magique
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    French TV network blames “an Islamist group” for 11-station blackout

    Hence multiple attacks on US possessions abroad and even on US soil... Surely that's not what you meant, right?
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    All US Postal Service employees’ personal data exposed by hackers

    I guess we could start at the voting booth...
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    Cheating on physics gets us great microscopes and three Nobel Prizes

    I think a slightly more accurate statement would be that the non-linear photoresists used for semiconductor patterning provide a similar benefit to the high field gradient + quenchable fluorophore of STED. A technique that's been used for quite a while in the semi industry is so-called "phase...
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    Three arguments about climate change that should never be used

    If only that was true... It seems many are not capable of dissociating the science and reality of climate change from what humans might want to do about it. How many times have we seen in this thread (and previous) statements along the lines of "climate change (used to be called "global...
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    Three arguments about climate change that should never be used

    @wheels Just wanted to thank you for your hard and thankless work.
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    After a month of use, we dish out our biggest gripes with OS X Mavericks

    The VPN client still quits after one hour of operation, which can be a pita when you're focused on the task at hand, like when writing code. I was hoping this feature would change (it appears to be by design), or at least that one could disable that behavior. I've found workarounds on the web...
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    BitTorrent’s serverless P2P sync software hits beta, adds Android support

    At this point there is a non-official package for Synology but it's not yet updated to match the beta version.
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    BitTorrent Sync creates private, peer-to-peer Dropbox, no cloud required

    In the case of BTSync you can in fact disable server tracking when syncing over a LAN. You can also directly provide the network address of the devices that are allowed to exchange data. My personal use case: sync a Mac, a PC and (eventually) a Synology NAS over the local network. I used Cubby...
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    Contact lens solution hosts giant virus, ecosystem of parasites

    Well, take that a little further and use a title like "Tap water diluted solution becomes a Russian-doll viral oasis". I would have enjoyed the article just the same as I'm no bio expert and find that little ecosystem quite fascinating. Thanks for another interesting article, John,