Edward Thorp was banned from casinos in Vegas for counting cards. He even published a book on his system for winning at the blackjack table using the mathematical theory of probability. While working at MIT, he built what many consider the first wearable device for -- you guessed it -- beating roulette. In a fresh issue of our weekly, Donald Melanson profiles Thorp's gaming of the system and how he ended up the unlikely father of wearable computing. Eyes-On has a look at Sennheiser's cans, Hands-on grabs up both of the new iPhones and IRL takes a gaming focus. Jump down to your digital library of choice to snag your copy and settle in for a gadget-centric history lesson. Distro Issue 107 PDF Distro in the iTunes App Store Distro in the Google Play Store Distro in the Windows Store Distro APK (for sideloading) Like Distro on Facebook Follow Distro on Twitter Filed under: Announcements, HD, Mobile Comments Source: iTunes, Google Play, Windows Store Continue reading at 'Engadget'
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A new prize has been launched to recognise the work university presses do in addressing issues of global importance. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The $19 million shelled out for the Unruly transaction represents a sharp haircut from the $90 million upfront cash price News Corp paid for the company a little over four years ago. The post The paltry price paid for Unruly rattles the consolidating ad tech market appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2020-01-07 05:00:57 UTC ]
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Donald Trump Jr's Triggered hit the New York Times bestseller list with a dagger, an indication of bulk buys. It's far from the first book to do so. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-01-06 11:35:08 UTC ]
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The Street is a groundbreaking work of American literature that is as relevant today as when it was published in 1946. When it won Ann Petry the Houghton Mifflin Prize for Debut Writers, the literary world was put on notice. Everyone agreed that the novel was brilliant, but, as is the case with... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-01-06 09:47:44 UTC ]
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In her extraordinary new book, “Uncanny Valley,” Anna Wiener recounts what made her, a 25-year-old woman with an “affectedly analog” life in New York City, abandon her job at a literary agency in 2013 to work for tech startups, and what eventually — five years later — made her leave the... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-01-03 21:41:30 UTC ]
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Anna Wiener’s memoir captures the dreams, delusions and general absurdity of Silicon Valley in indelible detail. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-01-03 10:00:08 UTC ]
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Ann Napolitano has written a novel about the peculiar challenges of surviving a public disaster in the modern age. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-12-31 17:24:50 UTC ]
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Sports media will rush to embrace gambling in 2020. With sports book operators hungering for new customers in a growing Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-12-26 16:15:53 UTC ]
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From AI breakthroughs to 5G deployment, these hot topics are on the minds of venture capitalists, tech execs, and analysts. In 2020, technologies will move toward the mainstream and begin impacting daily life. The next generation of wireless network, 5G, will begin to take hold, for example, and... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-12-23 07:00:11 UTC ]
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Kristen Richardson blends historical research and reportage with personal anecdotes. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-12-22 19:55:17 UTC ]
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Court says state is entitled to any profits from Permanent Record because its publication breached non-disclosure agreementsEdward Snowden is not entitled to the profits from his memoir Permanent Record, and any money made must go to the US government, a judge has ruled.Permanent Record, in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-12-20 13:20:57 UTC ]
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Mudlarker Lara Maiklem discovers everyday items that tell intimate stories of the city. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-12-19 21:46:42 UTC ]
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Snowden's recently published memoir violated the terms of his employment contract. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2019-12-18 11:37:41 UTC ]
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Survivor and journalist Kate Pickert chronicles the medical and cultural history of the disease. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-12-13 06:55:53 UTC ]
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The History Press will launch a new publishing imprint in 2020, with a list focused on "books that spark". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-12 14:01:30 UTC ]
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Fifty-seven books in 10 awards categories have been shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards (full listings below), with Vivien Godfrey, chairman and chief executive of Stanfords, calling it “a sensational line up of immensely talented writers across the full spectrum of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-09 14:56:23 UTC ]
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A new history book shows how entanglements of race, gender, class and sexuality in South Africa flow from the moral contradictions of the settler colonial state. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2019-12-08 07:14:51 UTC ]
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Transworld’s rights director Helen Edwards is leaving the publisher later this month as a result of its rights reorganisation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-03 09:48:03 UTC ]
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The US experience of watching sport online should ring alarm bells for those who prize the Premier League’s ability to bring people togetherIn the late 1960s, the American author and tech seer Richard Brautigan wrote lyrically of “a cybernetic meadow / where mammals and computers / live together... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-12-02 18:49:42 UTC ]
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Film historian Jeanine Basinger brings zeal to her decades-spanning survey “The Movie Musical!” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-11-27 15:55:30 UTC ]
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