Gooooooood morning, WWW!!! Hey, this is not a test, this is a tech roundup. Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.
AI, bots and robots
- Japanese Language Learning Forum
- Christopher Alexander: A Primer
- Justice Department Is Scrutinizing Takeover of Credit Karma by Intuit, TurboTax
- DeepDream: How Alexander Mordvintsev excavated the computer’s hidden layers
- Instacart shoppers besieged by bots that snatch lucrative orders
- Instacart shoppers besieged by bots that snatch lucrative orders
- Test-First Machine Learning
- Best Business Books for Entrepreneurs
- Introduction to Statistical Learning
- Leveraging Machine Learning to Fuel New Discoveries with the ArXiv Dataset
- Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed
- Non-invasive nerve stimulation boosts learning of foreign language sounds
New research by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh and University of California San Francisco (UCSF) revealed that a simple, earbud-like device developed at UCSF that imperceptibly stimulates a key nerve leading to the brain could significantly improve the wearer’s ability to learn the sounds of a new language. This device may have wide-ranging applications for boosting other kinds of learning as well. - Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong
Apple AI chief and ex-Googler John Giannandrea dives into the details with Ars.
Blockchain and decentralization
- C++: Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust
- Tehran Skyscraper Combines Cryptocurrency Mining with Vertical Water Park
Woman computer scientist of the week
Nell B. Dale is an American computer scientist noted for her work in computer science education and computer science introductory programming textbooks. She was on the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Board from 1981-85, and from 1987-93, and was Chair of SIGCSE from 1991-93. She was Chair of the SIGCSE Symposium in 1991 and Co-Chair of the SIGCSE Symposium in 2000.
Cloud and architecture
- Local-first software: You Own Your Data, in spite of the Cloud
- When I raised my B2B SaaS’s prices
When I launched Feature Upvote, my B2B SaaS, in 2017, the price was $29/month, with a 20% discount for paying yearly. I chose that price arbitrarily, but also because it is what I felt I would pay for a similar service. After hearing repeatedly that developers who start businesses need to charge more, I wanted to experiment with a small increase. I delayed doing this until I had enough new customers each month to really be sure of the price change’s effect. In January 2019 I put the price up… - Autodesk criticised by architects
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The story of our company’s most valuable email. - The Rogue Wave of Enterprise SaaS
- Cloudflare Network Interconnect
- Concepts – Laws, Principles, Mental Models, Cognitive Biases
- Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed
- An Inside Look at CloudKitchens
Development and languages
- Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C
- Plugin to add persisted GraphQL queries to WordPress
- Dutch minister of health makes a GitHub commit
- Advancing our approach to digital currency
- World’s First Fully Programmable and Open-Source Massive-MIMO Platform
- GPU Accelerated JavaScript
- GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain
- GitHub’s largest collection of books, talks, and papers on security engineering
How to systematically secure anything: a repository about security engineering – veeral-patel/how-to-secure-anything - An Interactive JavaScript Slide Rule
- Top Mobile Programming Languages Include Java, C
- OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM
Microsoft has made its first big contribution to OpenJDK: Porting OpenJDK to Windows 10 ARM (AArch64). - One year of automatic DB migrations from Git
- The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary
- Small-Step Live Programming by Example
- I made a steganography program and published it on GitHub
- Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk
- International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 2020 – Research Papers
- Gitlab Support is no longer processing MFA resets for free users
- Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire
- Twitter for Android Security Vulnerability
- Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool
- .NET Team Survey: Native AOT
- MicroBlocks: Scratch and Smalltalk-inspired MCU VM for live embedded programming
- Two Features of JavaScript that you might not know
- CheerpX – x86 virtualization in browser using WebAssembly – Python Demo
- Create your WebAssembly Calling Card–visual creativity with WASM
- 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions
- Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language
Crush is an attempt to make a command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language. – liljencrantz/crush - Yet another tool for making copy/paste/run experience better (Windows)
- With Poetry, packaging in Python is a solved problem
- Pysa: An open source tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code
- P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com and now it’s free for everyone
- Drivers who keep their windows down are exposed to 80 percent more air pollution
Quote of the week
Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.
— Bram Cohen
Enterprises
- Stock Market: What Happens If Tesla Enters S&P 500
- Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google’s interests than good engineering
- Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Trump Signals Opposition
- Google Meet Studio Mini – Change your appearance with a browser script
- Tesla Model 3 Driver Has License Suspended After Adjusting Wipers via Touchscree
It didn’t help that he crashed while doing so. - Google starts testing its replacement for third-party cookies
- Google killed a small smart glass maker after acquiring it
- Microsoft to continue discussions on potential TikTok purchase in the US
- Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal
- Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push
Alphabet Inc’s Google is picking up a 6.6% stake in ADT Inc for $450 million, betting on the home security company’s strong customer base and an army of technicians to drive sales of its Nest devices. - Trump administration gives TikTok 45 days to sell to Microsoft or leave US
- Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A
Do you want the cheap one now or 5G later? - Google ‘BigBird’ Achieves SOTA Performance on Long-Context NLP Tasks
- TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock
- EU Launches Full-Scale Probe into Google-Fitbit Takeover
The European Commission’s move has the potential to derail the $2.1bn takeover. - Twitter faces FTC probe, likely fine over use of phone numbers for ads
- DeGoogle My Life
- More than 1/3 of all access to Google is now over IPv6
- Google’s Search Monopoly Complicates a Mental Health Crisis
- Tesla touchscreen wiper controls land driver with fine after crash
- I’ve compiled a list of the books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter
(Updated 2020) The most up to date and comprehensive list of 89 verified book recommendations from Paul Graham. Includes quotes and sources. - Twitter to be fined $250M for using 2FA numbers for ads
- Do Not Trust Google
- What’s wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer unloads
- Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B
- Social Movements Are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point
- Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google and Bing search results
- Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release
- Twitter web app polyfill gzip size dropped from 16.6 KB to 2.7 KB (move to ES6+)
- How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19
- 20GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors
- On Using Twitter
- Classic Google Sites shutting down by September 2021
- TikTok’s potential $588 per user valuation in Microsoft deal
- Lies Google and Facebook Spouted About Privacy Before Congress
- To Head Off Regulators, Google Makes Certain Words Taboo
The Markup obtained internal documents that coach new employees to avoid creating “very real legal risks” in using words like “market” and “network effects” - Tesla whistleblower breaks his silence
- Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands
Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands. Using them for home security could supercharge Google’s $450 million ADT deal.
Other news
- My Custom Payment Implant
Micro Bank Card Payment Conversion Service ? Payment implant ? Everybody wants one, I actually have one , here is my journey ? Along with everybody else, I am eagerly and patiently waiting for the Apex Line to be officially launched. The Apex line will be a powerful device that will be capable of many functions, including payment. However, currently, we don’t know when or where, globally ? this will be restricted to upon its release; therefore, I have… - Hacking Portable Air Conditioners
- Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module in Linux 5.1 and newer
- IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux
- Tech Journalism Is Less Diverse Than Tech. Here Are the Numbers
982 People. 14 Outlets. 80% White. 2% Black. 18% Other. - I made an app that lets you split a file into horcruxes
- The Global Implications of “Re-education” Technologies in Northwest China
- What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project
- UFC Pirate Ordered to Pay $32m in Damages Says He Was Bullied and Paid Nothing
- Illustrated Self-Guided Course On How To Use The Slide Rule
- What Args Can Teach Us About QAnon
- Laws of UX
Laws of UX is a collection of the maxims and principles that designers can consider when building user interfaces. It was created by Jon Yablonski. - Lord and Taylor, Oldest U.S. Department Store, Files Bankruptcy
- The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Women survivors of the atomic bombs
- The UX of Lego Interface Panels
- Write a mini-redis in rust: learn async programming with tokio
- Learn Functional Programming Design from Redux
- Crux SQL
- Unlearn Rotation Matrices as Rotations
- License Zero: Comments on “The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free”
- The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program
- Teaching quantum information science to high-school students
- Ex-NSA Hacker Finds a Way to Hack Mac Users via Microsoft Office
- Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power
- Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Zoombombers
- Why Should You Learn Vim in 2020
Pros and cons of using a 30-year-old editor in 2020. - Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles
Washington, D.C., journalists are clustering not in one âBeltway bubble,â but in âmicrobubbles,â says an Illinois study of their Twitter use. - OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh
OpenCore bootloader. Contribute to acidanthera/OpenCorePkg development by creating an account on GitHub. - A crash course on hacking satellites
- Busted US Retailers Use Bankruptcy to Break Leases by the Thousands
With the pandemic intensifying the plight of U.S. retailers, companies from J. Crew Group Inc. to the owner of Ann Taylor are using Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings to quickly get out of costly, long-term leases and shutter thousands of stores. - One-third of American renters expected to miss their August payment
- Make Billionaires Pay Act
A friendly copywriting challenge between human & OpenAI’s GPT-3 AP for your website. Built & Brought to you by VWO, #1 A/B Testing Tool in the World.
The tale of the July 4th surprise $2700 AWS bill. It is more nuanced than you think and might have exposed a bug.
Docker has announced the public beta of their enhanced integration of Docker with AWS Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate. The release of the ECS plugin allows for developers to work within the Docker experience to create the necessary infrastructure to operate within AWS.
Yesterday, the Internet Archive filed our response to the lawsuit brought by four commercial publishers to end the practice of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL), the digital equivalent of traditional library lending. CDL is a respectful and secure way to bring the breadth of our library collections to digital learners. Commercial ebooks, while useful, only cover […]
Nextcloud is the most deployed on-premises file share and collaboration platform. Access & collaborate across your devices. Your data remains under your control.
The transition of the OpenJDK projects from Mercurial to GitHub will be completed by September 2020.
A rough comparison of the experience of running DOS apps under each early release of Windows
A collection of awesome readme templates to display on your profile – kautukkundan/Awesome-Profile-README-templates
GitHub public roadmap. Contribute to github/roadmap development by creating an account on GitHub.
Correction: An earlier version of this media release used a hypothetical example that suggested that Google used information about users’ health to personalise or target advertisements. Google says that it does not show personalised ads based on health information. This example has been removed from the media release.
Several letter carriers are accusing Portland’s postmaster of deliberately delaying the delivery of first-class and priority mail by ordering clerks to sort Amazon packages first, ensuring that carriers deliver them on time.
Update: This leak has partially inaccurate information. Please refer to this exclusive for the full story. A huge report from DigiTimes has leaked out claiming that Intel’s Ponte Vecchio GPU has found its home on TSMC’s lower-cost 6nm process. The leak originally sprung from a paywalled DigiTimes article and has since been corroborated by China […]
Intel Corp’s Chief Engineering Officer Murthy Renduchintala is departing, part of a move in which a key technology unit will be separated into five teams, the chipmaker said on Monday.
The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page
Microsoft is joining the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund as a Corporate Gold member!
The executive made the admission under questioning at a House antitrust hearing.
As the computing conglomerate has grown, so too have the risks that it becomes more like a conventional company
Explore the dynamics of our changing planet over the past three and a half decades.
Twitter Inc , whose internal systems were breached about two weeks ago, said on Thursday the incident targeted a small number of employees through a phone «spear-phishing» attack.
Australia will force U.S. tech giants Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay Australian media outlets for news content in a landmark move to protect independent journalism that will be watched around the world.
A look at the different business and pricing models to fund open source software and make it sustainable.
Better understanding the synergy between radiation and corrosion is necessary to deploy advanced nuclear reactors. Here, the authors contradict the misconception that radiation always results in deleterious effects and show that proton irradiation slows the corrosion of Ni-Cr alloys in 650â°C molten salt.
The firearms maker filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time since 2018, weighed down by more debt than it can repay even as fearful Americans buy more guns than ever.
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don’t know there’s anything wrong with it.
In Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test, Kevin Lacker found that GPT-3 does well answering simple factual questions like “Who was president of the United States in 1955?”, but also happily answered absurd qu…
Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping the stripe. But a recent series of malware attacks on U.S.-based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting weaknesses in how certain financial institutions have…
It is one of the most commonly used supplements frequently taken to address joint pain, but there might be more to this dietary supplement than first […]
In this article, I’ll share my motivation for doing 60+ technical interviews in 30 days. More importantly, I’ll share 13 lessons I learned from my failures and my successes.
A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python – alexmojaki/futurecoder
David Malan, of the hit class CS50, was working to perfect online teaching long before the pandemic. Is his method a model for the future of higher education?
macOS 11.0 will identify itself differently according to the SDK used, and an environment variable does the same for scripts.
On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody knows, when your DNS is gone, so are
Cutting down infrastructure costs 3 times by using AWS Spot Instances.
MineSweeper implemented in CSS + HTML using the Space Toggle trick (no JavaScript!) – propjockey/css-sweeper
Amazon FBA Brexit bombshell: From 1st of January 2021. No more EFN (European Fufilment Network) for UK and an end to Pan-European FBA between the UK and EU
Graphical artifacts caused by a CPU, not GPU? Sure thing.
What makes Stripe a favorite of developers, the advantages of building a cult, and the how the little things add for developers
One of the key elements of Google’s software engineering culture is the use of defining software designs through design docs. These are…
Slack Technologies, Inc., (NYSE: WORK) today announced it has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft Corporation before the European Commission.
A row over a photographer’s name being trimmed from an image has been in the courts since 2016.
Some companies regret sharing information with the tech giant and its Alexa Fund. “We may have been naive in believing they weren’t competitive with us,” said one executive.
Buy on Google is now zero commission and open to third-party digital commerce providers.
AUSTIN, Texas — For decades, researchers have looked for ways to eliminate cobalt from the high-energy batteries that power electronic devices, due to its
Ireland’s HSE has donated the world’s most successful contact tracing app as open source to Linux Foundation Public Health, supporting the global effort against Covid-19.
Have you ever wondered which node consumes more resources? Managing a bespoke dashboard for your infrastructure. Learn how to create it.
Dubbed the US Digital Service Academy, it would offer degrees and coursework for digital skills like cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Tuesday the establishment of three quantum computing centers across the nation, involving an investmen
More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others, two former employees said, making it hard to defend against the hacking that occurred last week.
More than 20 universities and charities confirm they lost data in the ransomware hack.
My hair is getting too long so I decided to build a robot to cut it for me. To support future projects like this check out my patreon: http://patreon.com/stu…
The company sent an email asking customers to check their earphone software has been updated.
For years, Google Cloud has languished in third place in the cloud computing market, with fewer marquee customers to boast of than rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft.Last week, though, word surfaced of a buzzy new customer for Google CloudâTikTok, the app for sharing short videos that is …
The lawsuit accuses the search engine giant of violating wiretap law and California privacy law by recording what users are looking at in apps.
Today a configuration error in our backbone network caused an outage for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 27 minutes. We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network.
Today a configuration error in our backbone network caused an outage for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 27 minutes. We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network.
GitHub quietly released a new feature at some point in the past few days: profile READMEs. Create a repository with the same name as your GitHub account (in my case …
The vast majority of serious malware over the past 30 years has been written in Assembly or compiled languages such as C, C++, and Delphi. However, ever-increasing over the past decade, a large amount of malware has been written in interpreted languages, such as Python. The low barrier to entry, ease of use, rapid development process, and […]
What is the Availability Report? Historically, GitHub has published post-incident reviews for major incidents that impact service availability. Whether we’re sharing new investments to infrastructure or detailing site downtimes, our belief is that we can
Shelly: a programming language for drawing
by Jean-Louis Gassée
Semiconductor maker Analog Devices Inc said on Monday it would buy rival Maxim Integrated Products Inc for about $21 billion in the largest U.S. deal this year, aimed at boosting its market share in automotive and 5G chipmaking.
Germany has banned Tesla from repeating what a court says are misleading advertising statements relating to the capabilities of the firm’s driver assistance systems and to autonomous driving, a Munich judge ruled on Tuesday.
Google Belgium was imposed a fine of €600,000 by the Data Protection Authority (DPA) because the search engine did not respect a citizen’s right to be forgotten, the DPA announced on Tuesday. &qu
Electric car company Tesla has ranked last for reliability in American survey of more than 87,000 buyers and lessees of new cars. The J.D. Power US Initial Quality Study, which gauges problems encountered in the first three months of ownership, included 
After a wave of account takeovers, screenshots of an internal Twitter user administration tool are being shared in the hacking underground.
On Wednesday, a hack involving high-profile Twitter accounts led the service to suspend the activity of verified users. It was great.
Introducing the new Twitter API – rebuilt from the ground up to deliver new features faster so developers can help the world connect to the public conversation happening on Twitter.
Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait sent the following to the editorial staff on Wednesday: To All in Editorial & Research, Enterprise We are still publishing too many enterprise stories that are either mediocre or…
UK consumers may unwittingly be buying meat linked to the destruction of the Amazon, experts say.
This used to grate, but I think they need to be reframed.
The victim was found dismembered and left in bags inside his Lower East Side condo. Police identify him as 33-year-old Fahim Saleh.
Hackers pumping a crypto giveaway scam appear to have compromised the Twitter accounts of leading exchanges, individuals and at least one news org.
The easiest and most trusted transaction search engine and block explorer.
In America, political and commercial strains have led to questions about its value and meaning
You can’t say you didn’t see it coming.Whatever Twitter eventually comes to say about the events of July 15th, 2020, when it suffered the most catastrophic security breach in company history, it must be said that the events were set in motion years ago.Beginning in the spring of 2018, scammers began to impersonate noted cryptocurrency enthusiast Elon Musk. They would use his profile photo, select a user name similar to his, and tweet out an offer that was effective despite being too good to be tr
Analysis of various approaches to monetizing the Twitter hack
Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world’s most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. Twitter says the attack happened because someone tricked or coerced an employee into providing access to internal Twitter administrative tools. This post is an attempt to lay…
Procmon is a Linux reimagining of the classic Procmon tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. Procmon provides a convenient and efficient way for Linux developers to trace the syscal…
Performance monitoring simplified by making uptime monitoring, performance and real user metric tracking along with Global uptimes and SSL information in an easy and simple way. Never let users see your website down or with bad loading speeds. Receive alerts & insights in real time on health and performance.
Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux. Contribute to lawl/NoiseTorch development by creating an account on GitHub.
A team of Italian robotics researchers created a quadruped robot that can balance on two feet.
A browser is an enormously complex piece of software, and it’s always in development. About a year ago, we asked ourselves: how could we do better? Our CI relied heavily …
Google Cloud’s new Accelerator-Optimized (A2) VM family is based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPU, and designed for demanding HPC and ML workloads.
Cloudflare TV is a 24×7 TV channel that takes you behind-the-scenes and let’s you hear directly from the builders working on your favorite Cloudflare products. This blog post covers the story of why we decided to build Cloudflare TV in-house and some of the technologies that make it possible.
Contribute to prismlab/parallel-programming-in-multicore-ocaml development by creating an account on GitHub.
Create multiline git commits by using -m multiple times when using git commit
Tesla’s famous big battery in South Australia is going through the final stage of testing, after an expansion that grows the battery by 50%. Neoen, who owns the Hornsdale Power Reserve, are close finalising testing that will increase the capacity of the battery from 100MW to 150MW. This increase in size was thanks to an additional $15 million from the SA Government, which helped grow the grid-scale battery. The 50MW expansion began back in March, with the extra capacity to be operational very soon. The big battery stores energy from the nearby wind farm and acts as a buffer when the energy grid sees spikes in demand. Coal-fired powerplants 
Palantir Technologies Inc. today announced that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities an
Explore the world of Mac. Check out MacBook Pro, iMac Pro, MacBook Air, iMac and more. Visit the Apple site to learn, buy and get support.
SUSE, the world’s largest independent open source company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rancher Labs.
Artificial intelligence firm Dataminr is making questionable use of its Twitter firehose privileges — and not for the first time.
A developer’s machine, compromised by attackers, was able to use Safari auto-fill to log into passwords.google.com, disable 2FA and extract passwords without notification. InfoQ spoke to Amos (@fasterthanlime) on Twitter about his experience and advice for others who might find themselves in the same situation. Read on to find out what happened, and what you should do to protect your assets.
We are very excited to be joining Square to help build products and tools within their Seller ecosystem. We were drawn to Squareâs purpose of economic empowerment. While Stitch Labs wonât take on any new customers, we will continue to operate for existing customers until Spring 2021. We will continue to support and offer Stitch…
In leaked audio from an invite-only app, venture capitalists pondered everything they think is wrong with journalism.
Due to COVID-19, SEVP instituted a temporary exemption regarding online courses for the spring and summer semesters. This policy permitted nonimmigrant students to take more online courses than
The CORE-V CVA6 is an Application class 6-stage RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux – openhwgroup/cva6
By Chris Sells (Google) & Ken VanDine (Canonical) Google’s goal for Flutter has always been to provide a portable framework for building beautiful UIs that run at native speeds no matter what platform you target. To validate this capability, we started by focusing on the mobile platforms, Android and iOS, where we’ve seen more than […]
The Labor Court of São Paulo partially accepted the request that recognizes the employment link between drivers and Uber. Deputy Labor Judge Raquel Marcos Simões analyzed the requirements for defining the employment relationship between the two and ruled that the company must pay drivers the advance notice, the 13th-month salary, vacation time plus 1/3 and the FGTS collection, plus 40 percent indemnity, for the period between June 2016 and February 2018.
Hello, friends, In 1895, journalist Ida B. Wells published “The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States, 1892–1894,” which cataloged all the known records of “colored victims of lynching law” during those years. Not only did she list all of the victims’ names, but also their alleged crimes, and where the lynching occurred. She let the data inform readers of the scale of lawlessness that might have otherwise been hidden in various local newspaper report
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Official tensorflow implementation for CVPR2020 paper “Learning to Cartoonize Using White-box Cartoon Representations” – SystemErrorWang/White-box-Cartoonization
Turing Award Winner and Facebook Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun has announced his exit from Twitter after getting involved in a long and often acrimonious dispute regarding racial biases in AI.
Merchants have seen a lot of browsing by John Smith, who picks up items, then leaves without buying; ‘it started getting out of hand’
Some 350 elephant carcasses have been spotted in Botswana’s Okavango Delta since May.
TaBERT is the first model that has been pretrained to learn representations for both natural language sentences and tabular data.
Writing bitcoin from scratch as a way to learn the concepts.
Tracking brainwave patterns and symptoms in patients with depression, researchers used artificial intelligence to predict best treatment options.
A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode – foambubble/foam
Was GitHub down more after Microsoft acquired them? We analyzed their status page and found a 41% increase in disruptions.
Open source software community giant KDE finished phase one of their migration to GitLab and has joined our GitLab open source program. Checkout what’s next for KDE and GitLab.
If Google News had a Python library. Contribute to kotartemiy/pygooglenews development by creating an account on GitHub.
Contribute to alfiopuglisi/guietta development by creating an account on GitHub.
Google has acquired North, a pioneer in human computer interfaces and smart glasses.
For obvious privacy reasons, Google servers shouldn't be used as fallback DNS and NTP servers. In case of FallbackNTP, having two different vendors as fallback will also aid in stability if Goo…
A group of European digital advertising associations on Friday criticized Apple Inc’s plans to require apps to seek additional permission from users before tracking them across other apps and websites.
Hey internet! So, someone broke into some of my accounts. I’m taking entire responsibility for this – there’s the part where I fucked
Chesapeake Energy Corp filed for Chapter 11 on Sunday, becoming the largest U.S. oil and gas producer to seek bankruptcy protection in recent years as it bowed to heavy debts and the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on energy markets.
YouTube is taking more action against supremacy channels and hate speech
Investment firms TPG, Fosun International and Caisse de Depot et placement du Quebec have submitted a proposal to buy the circus company’s assets
By Ryan Bednar (CEO of RankScience) Update: This post got a ton of traffic on Hacker News today and Pinterest reached out to comment: “The claim that we scrape Google search results is false. We do not, and never have, scraped Google search results at any time.” The original article suggested Pinterest scrapes Google directly, but …
Summary of my keynote talk at BotSE 2020 where I discuss the organizational, technical, NLP and Business challenges of building a commercial bot platform
Peer-to-peer micropayments for torrenting. Built on ethereum using state channels.
If you’re going to reveal someone’s personal information without their consent, you better have a damn good reason to do it, writes our executive editor.
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers: An Interactive Tutorial with GPU, CUDA, OpenCL, MKL, Java, and Clojure
by Jean-Louis Gassée
Microsoft will work with Facebook to integrate xCloud in the future
Today we have some exciting news to share: Fleetsmith is now part of Apple.
The global team will investigate crimes and bring legal action against counterfeiters to protect our customers and brands.
It’s not yet clear how Amazon hopes to use the technology.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered that teaching physics to neural networks enables those networks to better adapt to chaos within their environment. The work has implications for improved artificial intelligence (AI) applications ranging from medical diagnostics to automated drone piloting.
Like the entertainment industry, colleges will need to embrace digital services in order to survive.
Moroccan journalist Omar Radi investigates connections between politicians and business people, as well as social movements and human rights. In other…