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The Quest For New York City's Most Adequate Dollar Slice, VIDEO: This Is The Gigantic Machine That Renews Railroad Tracks, Fund An Art Show About Your Favorite Subject: You, How A Notorious Counterfeiter Reinvented Himself As An Artist, Actually, It's About Ethics In Doxxing, A Working Computer Smaller Than A Grain Of Rice The Daily Digg Tuesday, April 7, 2015 ITALI-AIN'T The Quest For New York City's Most Adequate Dollar Slice luckypeach.com Your food friends may all have their street-meat guy or a favorite falafel or a cheap dumpling spot to recommend. But you know what no New York food know-it-all is talking about? Dollar pizza. ALL IN A DAY'S TRAINING VIDEO: This Is The Gigantic Machine That Renews Railroad Tracks digg.com It might looks like a regular train, but each of the cars on this Plasser & Theurer RU 800 have a specific purpose. As the whole machine passes, the existing track below is removed and replaced. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Fund An Art Show About Your Favorite Subject: You kickstarter.com The history of art commissions is the history of wealthy people paying artists to make something about wealthy people, or big institutions paying artists to make something about everybody else. In 2015, the people behind Electric Objects think that there's a different way to do this — one in which anyone can contribute to a commission, to make art about everyone who contributes to it. ON THE MONEY How A Notorious Counterfeiter Reinvented Himself As An Artist vice.com Arthur J. Williams Jr. is perhaps best known for being the counterfeiter who successfully replicated the supposedly impossible to replicate 1996 hundred-dollar bill. NOT WHAT THE DOX ORDERED Actually, It's About Ethics In Doxxing medium.com Taking down bigots with their own weapons is sweet, satisfying  —  and very, very wrong. THE SIZE OF THE CUTTING EDGE A Working Computer Smaller Than A Grain Of Rice cnet.com The University of Michigan's Micro Mote is a fully autonomous computer that's programmed and charged via light and could be used for a variety of medical and industrial purposes. Get more stories on Digg.com → CAN YOU DIG IT? In this photo, a quarry worker wearing a face mask to protect from dust pauses while arranging freshly cut stones at a quarry in the desert of Minya, southern Egypt. Around 45,000 people work in an estimated 1,500 quarries, digging out stones that later will be used in construction or powdered to be used by pharmaceutical and ceramic companies inside Egypt and abroad. Credit: AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014