The PillPack story fits the classic startup stereotype: young founders (one with a scraggly beard!), industrial chic office space in Somerville, and the drive to disrupt a dusty business: the neighbor…
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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Longtime Pennsylvania resident Ted Benna invented the 401(k) plan more than 35 years ago. Now, he has written a road map to cheaper, less complex retirement-savings plans for small businesses and employers. The 401(k) has become …
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Tim Greene / Network World:
Windows 8 picture password is ‘Fisher-Price toy’ says father of 2-factor authentication — ‘I don’t think it’s serious security,’ says Kenneth Weiss of next Microsoft OS security feature — The Windows 8 feature that logs users in if they touch certain points in a photo in the right order might be fun …
Iain Thomson / The Register:
Father of Lisp and AI John McCarthy has died — Early computing pioneer undergoes final upload — Stanford University has confirmed that John McCarthy, the inventor of the LISP programming language and one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence (AI), has died at the age of 84.