When A Valley Becomes A Chasm

Technology's Role In Inequality, How Long Each Piece Will Survive (On Average) In A Game Of Chess, How To Look Like A Million Bucks (Without Spending A Million Bucks), Little Girl In An LED Minnie Mouse Costume Is Precious, A Brief History Of Batgirl, The Introverted Face The Daily Digg Wednesday, October 22, 2014 WHEN A VALLEY BECOMES A CHASM Technology's Role In Inequality technologyreview.com Median income in Silicon Valley reached $94,000 in 2013, far above the national median of around $53,000. Yet an estimated 31 percent of jobs pay $16 per hour or less. It's hard not to wonder whether Silicon Valley, rather than just exemplifying this growing inequality, is actually contributing to it, by producing digital technologies that eliminate the need for many middle-class jobs. PAWNS NOT ALWAYS EASILY PAWNED OFF How Long Each Piece Will Survive (On Average) In A Game Of Chess quora.com A problem that ought to be calculable from the vast number of recorded games. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Look Like A Million Bucks (Without Spending A Million Bucks) indochino.com Fact: Every man looks better in a suit. Now you can get one custom-made with a simple click. NOT BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE Little Girl In An LED Minnie Mouse Costume Is Precious digg.com Not only is this adorable, but the costume itself is receptive to noise and changes color when it detects sound nearby. Looks like someone's going home with lots of candy this year. UNDER THE COWL A Brief History Of Batgirl bitchmagazine.org The ongoing struggle to make geek culture more inclusive takes a positive step forward this month as DC Comics relaunches its iconic-but-neglected Batgirl series. LOOKS CAN KILL (YOUR CAREER) The Introverted Face theatlantic.com People put serious weight on judgements of character based on facial structure alone. Read more on Digg.com → HE NOSE SOMETHING Paul Dostie points as his dog Buster sets off to search an area near Bishop, Calif. For years, Buster and Dostie have worked together to unlock mysteries, to find the bodies of fighting men who fell long ago on foreign battlefields, or of victims of unsolved crimes or disappearances. In all, Dostie said that Buster has helped find the remains of about 200 people. Credit: AP Photo/Gregory Bull Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014