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Revolutionary eDisc Sculpt Technique Help Offensive Lineman Gabe Megginson Play Football Again

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Dr. Datta And His Revolutionary eDisc Sculpt Technique Help Offensive Lineman Gabe Megginson Play Football Again Dr. Datta's revolutionary, eDisc Sculpt Technique, takes pain, heavy meds and unnecessary hospital stays out of spine surgery procedure and recovery NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Illinois State senior guard, Gabe Megginson, is a big guy at 6'5/305, when he started having some serious back pain, he knew he had to find a fast and lasting solution for his condition or his blooming football career could be over. Enters Dr. Sukdeb Datta, Head Surgeon at Datta Endoscopic Back Surgery and Pain Center in New York City.  Megginson's personal physician recommended they should contact Dr. Datta to learn more about his revolutionary spine surgery technique and see if Dr. Datta could help the young athlete. Megginson was in so much pain and discomfort that he had to stop playing football at the end of the summer. After consulting with Dr. Datta in Se...

Æternity Blockchain Developers Take on Ethereum with Final Hardfork

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Scheduled hard fork adds improved Virtual Machine, governance, and naming system LIECHTENSTEIN -- November 5, 2019   -- The core development team for Æternity , a next-generation, open-source blockchain for building decentralized applications, today announced its LIMA hardfork, releasing the latest software to miners and in fact, handing over governance to the community. The third major æternity protocol upgrade this year, LIMA adds a sophisticated, improved Virtual Machine, governance, and naming system to challenge Ethereum and other blockchain platforms. Æternity is one of the most active blockchain developer communities measured by code activity. Core developers proposed hardfork, LIMA software release to miners, who will mine or not mine fork of aeternity blockchain. The LIMA protocol upgrade introduces the Fast Æternity Transaction Engine, or FATE, a Virtual Machine optimized for æternity smart contracts. This powerful Virtual Machine outperforms other blockchain n...

Best Electric Guitar for Beginners - A Detailed Buyer Guide

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Best Electric Guitar for Beginners - A Detailed Buyer Guide | Beginner Guitar HQ I've heard you want to play some electric guitar. Well, all right, then. I'm here to help you pick the perfect electric guitar for you if you're on a budget and want to learn. This Beginners Guitar HQ guide is aimed both for beginner and people looking to save some money.

Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience

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Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he was a Central Intelligence Agency employee and subcontractor. His new book "Permanent Record" is now available.

Say hello to Todoist Foundations

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" *Todoist Foundations will be rolling out over the next 24 hours! 🚀 Keep a look out for it.* Over the last two years, we’ve been rebuilding Todoist’s foundation to help people get things done in a faster, more intuitive, and more reliable way. Say hello to Todoist Foundations. 🎉 Foundations is an inside-and-out update that introduces useful new features and adds polish to the ones you already use every day: Divide and conquer your projects with new Sections. See everything about your task at a glance with Task View. Keep track of the little things with the Sub-tasks View. Add tasks more easily with the redesigned Quick Add for mobile. Easily add tasks right where you need them with the Dynamic Add button for mobile. And more… Simple, yet powerful – Todoist should make it as easy to take care of your grocery list as to coordinate a project with your team. This update also includes under-the-hood updates that make for the fastest, most reliable Todoist yet – and lay the gr...

Why Call Center Jobs Will Disappear

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At a call center in the Dominican Republic, Laura Morales is designing chatbots to respond to customer service requests. A former call center agent herself, Morales has benefited from her new job that is better paid and higher skilled than what she used to do. But will these chatbots end up replacing the livelihoods of millions of agents around the world? This is an episode of Next Jobs, a mini-documentary series hosted by Bloomberg Technology's Aki Ito.

Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?

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Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand? | Quanta Magazine In the fall of 2017, Sam Bowman, a computational linguist at New York University, figured that computers still weren't very good at understanding the written word. Sure, they had become decent at simulating that understanding in certain narrow domains, like automatic translation or sentiment analysis (for example, determining if a sentence sounds "mean or nice," he said).

The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive

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The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive Study after study after study into remote work has made one thing clear: Remote workers are more productive than their office-bound counterparts. What's not entirely clear is why. Yes, people gain back time (and sanity) by avoiding rush hour commutes. They avoid the distractions of the office.

Beginner's Guide to Whetstone Sharpening

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Time-lapse of the World's Largest 3D Printed Boat

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A time-lapse video of the world's largest 3D printed boat being printed by the world's largest 3D printer at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The boat was printed in 72 hours, is 25' long, and weighs 5,000 lbs.

Introducing a preview of SAFe 5.0 - Scaled Agile Framework

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Introducing a preview of SAFe 5.0 - Scaled Agile Framework Hello Folks, On behalf of the entire Scaled Agile team and the SAFe Contributors, we are delighted to announce a preview of SAFe® 5.0 for Lean Enterprises. Why is this update important? Globalization, fast-moving markets, disruption, the unprecedented pace of technological innovation. Organizations know that they need to transform-now-to compete.

Joe Rogan Experience #1361 - Cmdr. David Fravor & Jermey Corbell

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Commander David Fravor is a retired US Navy pilot, who has a close encounter in 2004 with the so-called Tic Tac UFO, and Jeremy Corbell is a contemporary artist and documentary filmmaker.

STAR TREK: PICARD Official Trailer (2020) Patrick Stewart Series

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STAR TREK: PICARD Official Trailer Series streaming January 24. © 2019 - Prime Video

Audi AI:Trail | First Look

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The four-seat AI:Trail quattro is Audi’s take on the future of the recreational vehicle and follows on from the Aicon, AI:Me and AI:Race in a series of concepts that explore the shape of the future. Along with its radical styling and uncluttered views comes all-electric powertrain. The AI:Trail is mean, green and the first Audi in the modern era to wear the word Audi on its tail in place of the customary Rings. In spite of its larger-then-life look the AI:Trail (pronounced i-Trail) is actually 335-millimetres shorter than the Q3 — sitting inside it, one would never know as there is space galore! The low beltline and large expanse of glass, including a pane that replaces the traditional grille, gives the cabin a light airy feel and 360-degree views of the road or off-road terrain. There are also large storage areas ahead of the driver (accessed through the lift-up windshield) along with a rear cargo floor that has a compartment for the charging cables. The cabin is also different in...

ADCC 2019 submission highlights

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