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Robot Now Surfacing Best New Yorker Cartoon Captions

2016-03-24 02:04:06| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

A new crowdsourcing algorithm lets readers offer their input on what is funny, and what is not.

Did the New Yorker call the Amazon bookstore right?

2016-01-05 20:50:40| IT Services - Topix.net

Thomas de Monchaux, who appears to write extensively on architectural and cultural topics for the New Yorker , has penned a long analysis there of the design and layout of the new Amazon Books bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle. His view - elaborated at great length - is that Amazon's design scheme "soothes our anxieties about technology" with a layout sort of like a Starbucks" using a "Heritage Modern or Warm Industrial" aesthetic.

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VIDEO: The New Yorker Festival - The Really Big One: Earthquake Preparedness in the Pacific Northwest

2015-10-09 16:25:29| PortlandOnline

Video clip of PBEM Director Carmen Merlo speaking at The New Yorker Festival on October 3, 2015.

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This native New Yorker returned home to stem the tide of a biotech brain drain

2015-08-25 11:17:25| Biotech - Topix.net

A global health care venture firm that specializes in biotech today launched a New York City-based incubator aimed at building startups in partnership with elite educational institutions. To manage the incubator, Highline Therapeutics, San Francisco-based Versant Ventures promoted native- New Yorker Carlo Rizzuto , who will be returning home after spending several years at the company's Basel, Switzerland location.

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