Messenger Spacecraft Sends First Image From Mercury’s Orbit | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.
Messenger Spacecraft Sends First Image From Mercury’s Orbit | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
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NCAA’s double standard proving doubly frustrating
NCAA’s double standard proving doubly frustrating – Andy Staples – SI.com.
Good article about the NCAA exploitation. It’s just one tiny example that illustrates a house of cards that the NCAA supports to exploit every college athlete in the profitable sports of men’s football and basketball.
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JPMorgan’s CEO Dimon Says More U.S. Municipalities May File for Bankruptcy
“If you are an investor in municipals you should be very, very careful,” Dimon said at the conference.
via JPMorgan’s CEO Dimon Says More U.S. Municipalities May File for Bankruptcy – Bloomberg.
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Algorithms take control of Wall Street
Lexicon packages the news in a way that its robo-clients can understand. It scans every Dow Jones story in real time, looking for textual clues that might indicate how investors should feel about a stock. It then sends that information in machine-readable form to its algorithmic subscribers, which can parse it further, using the resulting data to inform their own investing decisions. Lexicon has helped automate the process of reading the news, drawing insight from it, and using that information to buy or sell a stock. The machines aren’t there just to crunch numbers anymore; they’re now making the decisions.
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