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A Bold Experiment In Building Homes The Middle Class Can Afford

Homeownership has become the great American (pipe) dream but Jonathan Tate thinks there’s a more inclusive way to build.

Sandwiched between a nondescript duplex and industrial warehouse in the Irish Channel neighborhood of New Orleans, a modern, two-story home stands out from its neighbors thanks to a slender profile, angular roof, and corrugated-metal cladding. With an area of 975 square feet, the structure is diminutive, but this is no flavor-of-the-month tiny house: it’s the proof of concept for architect Jonathan Tate and developer Charles Rutledge’s Starter Home* program—a model of infill development that turns underused, unbuildable lots into entry-level residences.

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Google Paid Apple $1 Billion In 2014 To Be iOS’s Default Search Engine

Apple and Google rushed to keep the information from going public.

Court documents have revealed that Google paid Apple $1 billion dollars in 2014 to be iOS’s default search engine, reports Bloomberg. The sum was revealed in court transcripts of a copyright lawsuit that Oracle brought against Google in which it alleges the search giant used its Java software without paying for it to build Android.

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Apple Just Hired One Of The Country’s Leading Virtual Reality Researchers

Virginia Tech professor Doug Bowman was recently awarded a grant by Microsoft for the HoloLens research project.

Out of all the big tech companies—Microsoft, Facebook, Google, just to name a few—Apple is the only one that hasn’t publicly announced an interest in virtual or augmented reality technology. All the others listed above are known to be currently working on AR and VR tech.

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Food: Reading About It Is What’s Instead Of Dinner

You will have to pry the word “stock” from my cold, dead hands.

Eating food is a critical part of every man’s self-care routine, but did you know there are so many other things you can do with food besides put it in your lower facehole? You can read about it, you can talk about it, you can watch people make and/or consume it on TV. You can argue about it, read about other people arguing about it, and watch people argue and/or compete over it on TV! Rumor has it that you can even make food yourself, but this seems unsanitary and probably dangerous. Today, bringing us a sampling of tabs about the wide world of food activities that are not actually eating is Helen Rosner, from the sarcastically named website Eater.

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Google Is Offering A Free Online Class About Deep Learning

A Udacity course by Google will teach engineers and data scientists the basics of deep learning, which informs much of Google’s tech.

Techies who have some background in machine learning may want to tune into Google’s new course on deep learning. Available through Udacity—home to a host of open online courses—the class is expected to run about three months, assuming people put in about six hours of work per week.

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