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• Get your Captain America: Civil War fix with these 10 games and apps

  07-05-2016 19:27
  Suit up!Back in the day, we’d get a new console game every time a big movie came out, and that extended to the App Store’s early days. But now, rather than release a new game for each movie, Marvel rolls out themed updates to nearly all of the active games it has on iOS—which means there’s surely something you’ll enjoy if you’re into superhero showdowns. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Microsoft improves Visual C++ compilation

  07-05-2016 19:26
  
  Microsoft is developing an advanced code optimizer for its Visual C++ compiler back end to improve performance and code size.
  Visual C++ is Microsoft's variant of the still-popular general-purpose systems programming language founded in 1979. Offered in an unsupported preview release this week, the code optimizer right now is mostly for testing purposes, said Microsoft's Gratian Lup, a software engineer in the company's compiler and language platform group.[ Thinking of striking out on your own
  
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• At Stitch Fix, data scientists and A.I. become personal stylists

  07-05-2016 19:26
  
  With Stitch Fix, users don't go shopping for their clothes. Professional stylists do the job for them and the personal shopping service ships the new clothes to their door.
  The stylists aren't working on their own, though; they're using artificial intelligence (A.I.) and a team of about 60 data scientists.
  That combo is behind the success at Stitch Fix, a San Francisco-based online subscription and shopping service founded in 2011.
  "I think it's the single most salient aspect of our company," s
  
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• How gender differences can make your company stronger

  07-05-2016 16:12
  
  Remember that popular relationship book, “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus,” which aimed to help couples communicate better by helping them understand the innate differences between the sexes?As it turns out, the neuroscience explored in that book can help businesses create more gender balance in their ranks — not simply by upping the numbers of female hires or treating everyone the same in the hopes of eliminating bias. Rather, the practice, known as gender intelligence
  
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• HP Chromebook 11 G4 review: This low-cost laptop stands out for its speed and solid construction

  07-05-2016 08:00
  
  HP’s Chromebook 11 G4 ($199) has a dull-gray shell that screams, “bulk education purchase” more than “buy me.” Precisely because this school-oriented model can bang around in backpacks, however, it could teach its consumer Chromebook cousins a thing or two about build quality. Add to that some impressive performance numbers, and it’s one of the few 11-inch Chromebooks I’d be willing to recommend.
  Let’s talk about construction first, as that’
  
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