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AI, bots and robots
- Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons
New research makes a molecular connection between the brain and aging â and shows that overactive neurons can shorten life span. - An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
- ACLU to police using robots: Tell us more
Police are using robot dogs. Everyone seems interested but not everyone seems amused. The American Civil Liberties Union has asked Massachusetts State Police to explain how and where it is using robot dogs, said news reports. - Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
“We’ve never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there’s a better way to run the company.” - The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand
Starring Ring doorbells, Alexa gadgets, and Blink cameras. - SafeLife: AI Safety Environments Based on Conway’s Game of Life
- Interview with Facebook’s Head of AI
- Learning from Google to build a search engine
- AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2
- Neurosymbolic AI Advances State of the Art on Math Word Problems
- Machine Learning Christmas Calendar
- PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library
- Building AI that can master complex cooperative games with hidden information
- AI and Economic Productivity: Expect Evolution, Not Revolution
Blockchain and decentralization
- Correctness proofs of distributed systems with Isabelle
- A Guide to Distributed Teams
- A Distributed Meeting Primer
Woman computer scientist of the week
Pattie Maes is a professor in MIT’s program in Media Arts and Sciences. She founded and directed the MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group. Previously, she founded and ran the Software Agents group. She currently acts as the associate Department Head for the Media, Arts and Sciences Department. Prior to joining the Media Lab, Maes was a visiting professor and a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. She holds bachelor’s and PhD degrees in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.
Cloud and architecture
- Amazon’s cloud unit readies more powerful data center chip – sources
- Study reveals music’s universal patterns across societies worldwide
- How to Build a SaaS Unicorn: The Outreach Story
- AWS DeepComposer
- Mathematicians Catch a Pattern by Figuring Out How to Avoid It
- AWS Launches Graviton2-Powered General Purpose Instances
We launched the first generation (A1) of Arm-based, Graviton-powered EC2 instances at re:Invent 2018. Since that launch, thousands of our customers have used them to run many different types of scale-out workloads including containerized microservices, web servers, and data/log processing. The Operating System Vendors (OSV) and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) communities have been quick to […] - Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available – AWS News Blog
- The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale
- AWS Is Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles
- Amazon CodeGuru – Preview
Amazon CodeGuru is a machine learning service for automated code reviews and application performance recommendations. - AWS Wavelength Deliver ultra-low latency applications for 5G devices
- AWS Introducing Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions
- Amazon RDS Proxy for AWS Lambda
- Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
We launched the first generation (A1) of Arm-based, Graviton-powered EC2 instances at re:Invent 2018. Since that launch, thousands of our customers have used them to run many different types of scale-out workloads including containerized microservices, web servers, and data/log processing. The Operating System Vendors (OSV) and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) communities have been quick to […] - Cloud kitchens – commercial facilities built to produce food for delivery
Development and languages
- Project X – Like Tailwind for JavaScript
- Quadcopter Programming Part 2: Using the CMSIS Library and First Takeoff
- Why the free upgrade to Windows 10 still works
- A Good Year for “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”
A year ago today I self-published “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics” (PIM). In this short note I want to describe the success it’s had, summarize the complaints of… - The programmer behind the THERAC-25 Fiasco was never found
- Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
- Tenko: A spec-compliant ES2020 JavaScript parser written in JS
- How to analyse 100 GB of data on your laptop with Python
- Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming language for secure coding
- Metaflow, Netflix’s Python framework for data science, is now open source
- Craigslist releases new mobile app for iOS and Android
craigslist – The original online classifieds. Established 1995.
Find jobs. Hire employees. Post your resume. Offer your skills/services.
Buy & sell cars, trucks, boats, RVs, motorcycles, trailers, auto parts.
Offer your services, locate contractors, find short term gigs and odd jobs.
Buy & se…
- Say it’s 1962, you’re lucky enough to be a programmer working with an IBM 7090
“OK SO let’s say it’s 1962 and you’re lucky enough to be a programmer working somewhere that has an IBM 7090.
This is a top of the line transistorized revision of the IBM 709, capable of 100,000 floating point operations per second.But how do you code for it?”
- Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys
One library was available for only two days, but the second was live for nearly a year. - Using WebAssembly from .NET with Wasmtime
How to use Wasmtime in a .NET application to load and execute WebAssembly code. - PyLucid – A Lucid Interpreter Written in Python
- Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract
- Get PostgreSQL Database Structure as a Detailed JavaScript Object
- Deep Dive into C# 9
The proposed C# 9 features could make C# more functional and practical. Read this article to be prepared for the Inevitable Challenges. - Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source analytics for WordPress
An open-source analytics plugin for WordPress that does not use any external services and respects your visitors’ privacy. View on WordPress.org Contribute on GitHub You can view a demo of Koko… - Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis: 160k Pages of Medieval Manuscripts Digitized
- It’s official, WebAssembly is here to stay
- An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
- Programming FPGAs with .NET Languages
Quote of the week
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.
— Ken Thompson
Enterprises
- Twitter begins testing Reddit-style nested conversations
- It’s not a zero-sum game for Apple TV+, Netflix, and Disney+
- Adventures in Netflix
- EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google’s data collection
EU antitrust regulators are investigating Google’s collection of data, the … - AMD Releases Radeon ProRender 2.1
- The world needs more search engines
- EU investigates Google data collection practices
- Most Europeans Now Prefer AMD CPUs over Intel
- AMD’s Entire Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU Inventory Sold Out in Japan
Amazing scenes were witnessed on the retail launch of AMD’s Ryzen 9 3950X 16 core CPU in the Japanese market. - Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
Nearly a decade ago I wrote about the Quantum Compute Cloud on April Fool’s Day. The future has arrived and you now have the opportunity to write quantum algorithms and to run them on actual quantum computers. Here’s what we are announcing today: – A fully managed service that allows scientists, researchers, and developers to […] - Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
Nearly a decade ago I wrote about the Quantum Compute Cloud on April Fool’s Day. The future has arrived and you now have the opportunity to write quantum algorithms and to run them on actual quantum computers. Here’s what we are announcing today: – A fully managed service that allows scientists, researchers, and developers to […] - I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo
- More Teslas on the Road Meant Hours-Long Supercharger Lines over Thanksgiving
- FBI designates FaceApp as counterintelligence threat
- My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months
I couldn’t find the service I needed, so I built it for myself. And that was the start. - Four fired workers file charges against Google
- Amazon’s on-site emergency care endangers its employees
- Amazon Launches Managed Apache Cassandra Service
Managing databases at scale is never easy. One of the options to store, retrieve, and manage large amounts of structured data, including key-value and tabular formats, is Apache Cassandra. With Cassandra, you can use the expressive Cassandra Query Language (CQL) to build applications quickly. However, managing large Cassandra clusters can be difficult and takes a lot of […] - Announcing UltraWarm (Preview) for Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Save Up to 90%
- Amazon SageMaker Autopilot
Today, we’re extremely happy to launch Amazon SageMaker Autopilot to automatically create the best classification and regression machine learning models, while allowing full control and visibility. In 1959, Arthur Samuel defined machine learning as the ability for computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. In practice, this means finding an algorithm than can extract patterns […] - List of Fictional Microsoft Companies
- Amazon Kendra: Enterprise Search Service
Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service that’s powered by machine learning. - Mozilla and Opera remove Avast extensions from their add-on stores
- Google has handed information related to my account to the DoJ
- Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup
Duolingo, the language-learning app, raises a new investment round led by Google parent Alphabet’s CapitalG and becomes the first Pittsburgh tech start-up valued at more than $1 billion by venture capital investors. - Google AMP Can Go to Hell
The latest AMP messages in Google Search Console are intended to enforce full equivalency in AMP versions. The underlying message is clear. And so is my response. - Google founders’ exit signals end of era at search giant
- Google halts political ads in Singapore as election looms: documents
Google has stopped accepting political advertisements in Singapore months before… - ‘Shockingly High’ Number of Injuries at Amazon’s Staten Island Warehouse
- Carbonite to Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.42 billion
- Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surveillance network
Amazon’s Ring started from humble roots as a smart doorbell company called “DoorBot.” Now it’s surveilling the suburbs and partnering with police. - Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite US tariff threats
The aim is to bring the system “into the 21st century” by imposing a 3% levy on tech giants such as Amazon, but first a government must be formed - How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
There’s a popular thread on Hacker News with lots of people complaining about how Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is ruining their mobile web experience. This week I also got two AMP links sent… - Awesome Google Colab and 30+ example notebooks
- The Amazon Builders’ Library
- Amazon Dodges Responsibility for Unsafe Products
Other news
- The successor of SMS has already been hacked
- Jefferson’s Doomed Educational Experiment
- Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the heap
- The state of Linux graphic design tools in 2019
- What I’ve Learned over National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) 2019
- Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism
- Yocto: Tools for building a custom embedded Linux distribution
- Kali Linux Adds ‘Undercover’ Mode to Impersonate Windows 10
- Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction
While it would have been completely unthinkable for Mike and Carol Brady to light up a joint or get rip-roaring drunk on screen, the very first episode of the first season of The Brady Bunch (1969)… - Test Scores Cast Doubt on U.S. Education Reform
- FBI warns US that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes
- A Reality Check on Quantum Computers
- A woman lied on her resume to land a $185,000-a-year job. Now shes going to jail
- Journalists protest 100 days of internet gag in Kashmir
- Arcade Game Typography
A definitive and beautifully designed survey of ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s arcade game pixel typography. - Global warming-induced migratory bird body size reduction and shape change
- Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… A few days ago, Ian MacDougall came out with a New York Times/ProPublica piece on how consulting giant McKinsey structured Trump immigration policy. Lots of people cover immigration. I’m going to discuss why the government buys overpriced services from McKinsey. (Spoiler: It goes back to, of course, Bill Clinton.) - NanoNeuron – 7 simple JavaScript functions that explain how machines learn
🤖 NanoNeuron is 7 simple JavaScript functions that will give you a feeling of how machines can actually “learn” – trekhleb/nano-neuron - British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest
Audrey Schoeman fell unconscious when she was caught in a snowstorm while hiking in Spain.
Important academic discussions around the ‘intelligence’ in AI are emerging. They help level set the reality of what’s possible now and into the future. Here’s your guide as to what is real and what’s imagined.
Massachusetts State Police is the first law enforcement agency in the country to use Boston Dynamics’ dog-like robot, called Spot. That’s raising questions from civil rights advocates about how much oversight there should be over police robotics programs.
Let’s figure out what digit is shown in an encrypted image without ever decrypting it.
The lottery ticket hypothesis suggests that by training DNNs from “lucky” initializations, we can train networks which are 10-100x smaller with minimal performance losses. In new work, we extend our understanding of this phenomenon in several ways.
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Yonhap) — South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol, who retired from professiona…
Most of us last saw calculus in school, but derivatives are a critical part of machine learning, particularly deep neural networks, which are trained by optimizing a loss function. This article is an attempt to explain all the matrix calculus you need in order to understand the training of deep neural networks. We assume no math knowledge beyond what you learned in calculus 1, and provide links to help you refresh the necessary math where needed.
CDs and DVDs were sold to consumers as these virtually indestructible platters, but the truth, as exemplified by the “disc rot” phenomenon, is more complicated.
Reusable JavaScript library for creating sketchy/hand-drawn styled charts in the browser. – jwilber/roughViz
LEGO has today announced its acquisition of BrickLink . Read the full press release and our interview on this subject with Julia Goldin, Global Chief Marketing Officer at The LEGO Group, here:
Accounts inactive for more than six months will be deleted – including those of people who have died.
“I love @DuckDuckGo. My default search engine for a while now. The app is even better!”
Twitter apologises and admits a “miss on our part” when announcing it would start deleting inactive accounts.
I would be curious if Tensorflow 2.0 works with AMD Radeon VII? Also, if it is available, are there any benchmark comparison with 2080Ti on some standard network to see if we should invest in Radeo…
ANCAP chief James Goodwin says angular design and steel construction of Tesla Cybertruck electric ute may pose safety risks to other road users such as pedestrians.
Three months ago, I quit my job at Google to start my own company. This past week, I decided that I wanted to get a feel for how much it…
Nov 22, 2019. Velika Plana, Serbia. A shooting in Serbian high school saw a PE teacher confront and disarm a person carrying AK47, hand grenades and explosives, allowing the students to escape. Wit…
The long read: A GP has minutes to try to convince a person that life is worth living. No wonder they always wonder what more they could have done
How did Ruja Ignatova make $4bn selling her fake cryptocurrency to the world – and where did she go?
Stanford University 2017-20
A storied bank helped Eastern European bankers loot their own institutions.
Many elementary school teachers are anxious about teaching math, and studies show their students learn less from them. Math should be taught by specialists starting in kindergarten.
Despite no evidence of criminal intent, Coalfire employees face charges of criminal trespass.
The legend of the twenty-something business wunderkind is everywhere in pop culture. Here’s the problem. The data are in. It turns out that the whole thing is a gigantic myth.
Have you ever wondered if you’d be replaced by AI in the near future? I know I have. What if a bot could learn all about my style of writing and create a post of its own for this blog? Well, …
No one likes an office whistler or pen clicker – but for some people, these noises aren’t just a nuisance, they’re a full-blown aural assault. Why?
Last Monday a group of millionaires and billionaires took a trip to an industrial site in Lancaster, Calif. to witness the achievement of what could represent a giant leap forward in the effort to decarbonize some of the world’s most carbon intensive industries. For Bill Gross, the founder of…
Build a WhatsApp chatbot with Twilio, Python and the Flask framework
Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG
Can AI teach itself the laws of physics? Will classical computers soon be replaced by deep neural networks? Sure looks like it, if…
Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., Onward! ’19 Watch out! If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesti…
Google quietly revealed this week that it will kill Cloud Print, a cloud-based printing solution that never exited beta.
Algebraic data types and algebraic data structures sound similar. It’s like they ought to be the same thing. But they’re not. They both have ‘algebraic’ in the name, so it’s confusing. I got them mixed up at times. Others have too. But, they’re different concepts. Understanding the difference will help if you’re trying to learn functional programming.
Information about the Intel® Computing Improvement Program
Few companies have more riding on proposed privacy legislation than Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. To try to steer the bill their way, the giant advertising technology companies spend millions of dollars to lobby each year, a fact confirmed by government filings.
Privacy groups this week began pushing regulators to block the Fitbit acquisition, which the company originally hoped to close in early 2020.
La Repubblica has had access to the video and audio recordings of the Spanish company, UC Global, which spied on the WikiLeaks founder, his team of journalists
PayPal announced today it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile application, for $4 billion, mostly cash. The acquisition, which is PayPal’s largest to date, will give the payments giant a foothold earlier in the customer’…
Google is extending a ban on campaigns targeting ads at people based on their political leanings.
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella is responsible for the most value creating corporate transformation of the 21st century due to sweeping cultural and strategic changes at a company regulators once tried to break-up.
A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file – Gabriel439/simple-twitter
“We’ve updated how you can use two-factor authentication, allowing you to enable it with or without a phone number. Here’s how to add extra security to your account using an authorization app, physical security key, or SMS text message: https://t.co/8sTklAnKPY https://t.co/2ewsJRhUZe”
Cybertruck is designed to have the utility of a truck with sports car performance. Built to be durable, versatile, capable and high-performance both on-road and off-road.
Google has killed over 150 products since 2006. The average lifespan of a Google product is 4 years and 1 month.
Microsoft REST API Guidelines. Contribute to microsoft/api-guidelines development by creating an account on GitHub.
A small course on exploiting and defending neural networks – Kayzaks/HackingNeuralNetworks
A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive, discovers David Robson. How do they do it?
The number and quality of studies showing that air pollution has very substantial effects on health continues to increase. Patrick Collison reviews some of the most recent studies on air pollution and cognition. I’m going to post the whole thing so everything that follows is Patrick’s. —- Air pollution is a very big deal. Its …
“RELEASE: Sherwood – Copies of the servers of Cayman National Bank and Trust (CNBT), which has allegedly been used for money laundering by Russian oligarchs and others.
Americans are as polarized as they’ve ever been. Could the problem be that we’re caring for each other too much?
In this interview, Thomas Guenoux, the founder of CommitStrip, explains the creation process behind the strip and what makes developers laugh.
💻📖 Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. #hackerlaws – dwmkerr/hacker-laws
👽 API request builder – A free, fast, and beautiful alternative to Postman https://postwoman.io 🔥 – liyasthomas/postwoman
Collection of notebooks about quantitative finance, with interactive python code. – cantaro86/Financial-Models-Numerical-Methods
TESLA PowerWall 2 Security Shenanigans . Contribute to hackerschoice/thc-tesla-powerwall2-hack development by creating an account on GitHub.
Another year, another predicted new-car reliability ranking from non-profit consumer products researchers at Consumer Reports. And this year, the domestic automakers aren’t looking so good, taking up 11 of the bottom 12 spots. Here’s a look at reliability rankings for all the brands.
A probe into Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s credit card practices has been initi…
Test your HN title against a neural network. Contribute to victorqribeiro/hntitlenator development by creating an account on GitHub.
Bayes’ Theorem is about more than just conditional probability, and Naive Bayes is a flavor of the theorem which adds to its complexity and usefulness.
This article discusses GPT-2 and BERT models, as well using knowledge distillation to create highly accurate models with fewer parameters than their teachers
With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the worldâs leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.
New branding guidelines also regulate the word ‘partner’ and reveals security soft spot.
LuaJIT 2.0 bytecode parser, viewer, assembler and test VM – rochus-keller/LjTools
Lin Clark introduces the Bytecode Alliance, and uses Code Cartoon illustrations to share their vision of a WebAssembly ecosystem that is secure by default, fixing cracks in today’s software foundations. …
Jupyter Notebooks has been the significant player in the interactive development space for many years, and Notebooks …
The GitHub Archive Program will safely store every public GitHub repo for 1,000 years in the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard, Norway.
Get modern messaging features in the US with RCS in the Messages app
Google has begun testing their upcoming extension manifest V3 in the the latest Chrome Canary build, and with this initial ‘alpha’ release, developers can begin testing their extensions under the upcoming specification.
Google is teaming with one of the country’s largest health-care systems on an ambitious project named “Project Nightingale” to collect and crunch detailed health information of millions of Americans across 21 states.
Google, the real Aggregator, is squeezing OTAs, which acted like Aggregators while depending on Google for demand. It’s easy to say Google is being unfair, but this may be better for consumer…
Elon Musk said Tuesday during an awards ceremony in Germany that Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in the Berlin area. Musk was on stage to receive a Golden Steering Wheel Award given by BILD. “There’s not enough time tonight to tell all the details,” Musk said duri…
Google will soon offer checking accounts to consumers, becoming the latest Silicon Valley heavyweight to push into finance.
Mirantis today announced that it has acquired Docker’s Enterprise business and team. Docker Enterprise was very much the heart of Docker’s product lineup, so this sale leaves Docker as a shell of its former, high-flying unicorn self. Docker itself, which installed a new CEO earlier this…
Starting this week, I’m moving to a “Consulting CTO” position with Oculus.
The company said it is scaling back the frequency of it’s all-hands meetings, amid growing workplace issues and leaks.
Iâm Ryan Scherf, the founder of payment.co (@payment), an app built on top of the Stripe payment gateway for creating card-present charges. Payment is available on iOS and Android, and allows customers who have created online stores to easily collect payments in person, in the same acco…
The two tech giants have been feuding for nearly a decade.
Advertisement needs to end. It is insane to think that a piece of software, so fundamental to running computers, an operating system is selling user behavior to advertisers.
So far, no cure has been found for Parkinson’s. It is only possible to treat the symptoms. But a nurse in Scotland can smell the disease before it is diagnosed, and researchers are hoping she can help on the search for a breakthrough.
Pocket P.C. is your hacker terminal on-the-go. It is a handheld Linux device with a high-definition 1080p display and large battery life.
Pornhub said it’s ‘devastated’ by PayPal’s decision to stop payouts to models on its platform. 
Deezer source separation library including pretrained models. – deezer/spleeter
Just a bunch of powerful robotic resources and tools for professional robotic development with ROS in C++ and Python. – Ly0n/awesome-robotic-tooling
Jagged concrete protrusions span for miles along the Swiss Alps. They have been cheerily dubbed “Toblerone Lines” after the famous Swiss chocolate maker, but they have other names, too. More ominous monikers like “dragon teeth” may better fit their original function: to repel invading tanks and other vehicles in wartime. These lines represent some of
The series of $1,000 days that brought BTC to a record above $19,600 could have been the work of one entity, academic research shows.
File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., SOSP’19 Ten years of hard-won lessons packed into just 17 pages (13 if you don’t co…
Distributed ACID transactions form the beating heart of CockroachDB. They allow users to manipulate any and all of their data transactionally, no matter where i
One year ago exactly, I wrote my first piece about a stablecoin called Tether. A year later, uh, wow: From legal action introduced last month: Leibowitz et al. versus iFinex et al., US District Court. A complaint is not the same thing as a conviction. But the complaints are mind-blowing. This is not just “we are upset that we lost our crypto money and we’d like to sue someone”. If these accusations are found by a jury to be true, or even approximately true, then it will immediately go straight to the Hall of Fame level of Largest Frauds of All Time. In terms of monetary evaporation, the accusations here are ten times the size of WeWork,
Earlier this year, at its Build developers conference, Microsoft announced that it was working on a web-based version of its Visual Studio IDE. At the time, Visual Studio Online went into a private preview, open to a select number of developers. Now, at its Ignite conference, the company has opened…
In 2018 $273bn was spent on digital ads globally. We delve into the world of clicks, banners and keywords to find out if any of it is real. What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?
“I avoided anything having to do with my old life.”
258 votes and 147 comments so far on Reddit
Microsoft Edge is getting a new logo, and it is…something. The new logo was revealed as part of a long treasure hunt carried out by Microsoft.
And nipping at Intel’s heels
As it turns out, not squeezing employees dry like a sponge is maybe a good thing.
The technology giant closed its offices in Japan on Fridays during the month of August 2019
The Stripe CLI is a developer tool that helps you build, test, and manage your Stripe integration right from the terminal.
We checked the Intel performance strategy team’s latest benchmarks and found that they used an intentionally misleading test to back their claims
At Microsoft Ignite, Yubico previews the first-ever and long-awaited YubiKey Bio. It is the first YubiKey that will support fingerprint recognition for secure and seamless passwordless logins.
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department has charged two former Twitter employees with spying for Saudi Arabia by accessing the company’s information on dissidents who use the platform, marking the first time federal prosecutors have publicly accused the kingdom of running agents in the United States.
Open source Cardboard SDK and samples. Contribute to googlevr/cardboard development by creating an account on GitHub.
PJON is a valid tool to quickly and comprehensibly build a network of devices for free without the need of a cloud service or a centralized platform you don’t fully control. – gioblu/PJON
A great deal of college tuition inflation has been driven by an enrollment strategy to dole out more institutional aid to a growing number of students.
Researchers have found a woman with a rare genetic mutation that has protected her from dementia even though her brain has developed major neurological features of the disease.
If you’re making any project of sufficient complexity, you’ll need a
DeepMind’s AlphaStar beat all but the very best humans at the fast-paced sci-fi video game.
Iterations on revealing recurring patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior
A fractal is any geometric pattern that occurs again and again, at different sizes and scales, within the same object. This “self-similarity” can be seen throughout nature, for example in a snowflake’s edge, a river network, the splitting veins in a fern, and the crackling forks of lightning.
The evaporation of a drop of American whiskey leaves a characteristic web-like pattern that isn’t observed in Scotch whisky and other distillates.
Unity’s Reflect is getting tested by major firms like SHoP Architects on projects like 9 Dekalb Ave.
Please remove the default partner_id from azurerm that was introduced in #4663. If no provider_id is specified, then no provider_id should be sent to Azure. Using the default "terraform" …
“Half our customers are drunk and vaping like mo-fos, who the fuck is going to notice the quality of our pods,” the former CEO allegedly said. Juul says the lawsuit is “baseless.”
A new extension for the Julia programming language for mathematical computing enhances the Julia compiler to generate native code for CUDA GPUs
A GUI framework for C# console applications. Contribute to TomaszRewak/C-sharp-console-gui-framework development by creating an account on GitHub.
Shhgit finds secrets and sensitive files across GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket code and Gists committed in near real time
JavaScript and C both make you maintain your invariants the most painful way possible. Happily, there are better alternatives these days.
Factory resets aren’t helping. Neither are mobile antivirus solutions. Malware keeps reinstalling itself.
**2019-10-29 UPDATE:** The following email is going out to all GitLab users: Dear GitLab users and customers, On October 23, we sent an email entitled “Important Updates to our Terms…
Text of government takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. – github/gov-takedowns
El servicio, del que es dueño Microsoft, ha bloqueado el acceso al repositorio donde estaba alojado la web y el APK de la app para que la gente se la pudiera descargar
Acting president says new decree will prevent “digital republic” in Catalonia, while Catalan digital policy minister calls move “digital repression”
Commentary: The world rightly lauds Linus Torvalds for Linux, but Git will arguably have a bigger impact.
Dozens of accounts were suspended without reason during rare anti-government protests, new research shared with BuzzFeed News shows.
Tesla has launched the third iteration of its solar roof tile for residential home use, which it officially detailed in a blog post on Friday and in a call with media. Tesla CEO Elon Musk kicked off the call with some explanatory remarks on the V3 Solar Roof, and then took a number of questions. [&…
Bob Muglia introduces Steve Jobs in this PDC 1996 keynote. Steve Jobs was President of NeXT Corporation and talks about WebObjects as well as taking questions from some of the developers in the audien
Google owner Alphabet Inc has made an offer to acquire U.S. wearable device make…
Google owner Alphabet Inc has made an offer to acquire U.S. wearable device make…
From the newswire:Award-winning magazine and fast-growing science brand poised for growthAn investor group of super-fans has banded…
What lessons can we learn from old code that becomes unkillable?
“Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters. https://t.co/QMDJyc4uRO”
“We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…🧵”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday ardently defended Facebook’s controversial political advertising policy a little more than an hour after Twitter took a shot at its rival while announcing it will ban all political ads
“Breaking: Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion”
“I’m I the only one who finds, “Investing in improving structure,” leads to better feelings, decisions, and outcomes than, “Paying off technical debt”?”
What is a ket? How do traits work? Implementing a quantum computer simulator in Rust.
WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing it of hel…
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Brian Moynihan, Bank of America’s CEO, highlighted the firm’s decision to move to a private cloud on its third-quarter earnings call.
There are a lot of ways companies can rack up high bills for using cloud services, sometimes unexpectedly. One particularly stiff expense is the cost of shifting data from one cloud providerâs servers to another provider, or to a companyâs own data center. The Information has learned just how …
Igloo is a software application for Microsoft Windows which automates common desktop support and systems administration tasks. Igloo uses Python and PowerShell to provide users with TCP scanners, Windows shortcuts, and a simplified command line that helps IT professionals reduce stress and improve t
A history of edits to the US Constitution as it has been amended. Written in markdown to match original formatting. – JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution
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Google researchers say they have achieved milestone with number-generating computation
Recent advances in quantum computing have resulted in two 53-qubit processors
Platform power is a helluva a drug. Do a search on Google’s Play Store in Europe and you’ll find the company’s own Gboard app has an age rating of PEGI 3 — aka the pan-European game information labelling system which signifies content is suitable for all age groups. PEGI 3 m…
San Francisco is losing one of its most valuable tech startups as Stripe signs a lease in South San Francisco.
SuperGLUE is a new benchmark styled after original GLUE benchmark with a set of more difficult language understanding tasks, improved resources, and a new public leaderboard.
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Google today announced one of the biggest updates to its search algorithm in recent years. By using new neural networking techniques to better understand the intentions behind queries, Google says it can now offer more relevant results for about one in 10 searches in the U.S. in English (with suppo…
Amazon was considered a front-runner for the cloud computing project before President Trump began criticizing the companyâs founder, Jeff Bezos.
This is the story of a summer project that started out of boredom and that evolved into something incredibly fun and unique. It is also the story of how that project went from being discussed on a por
The best user experiences are often found on the most boring interfaces. If you want your product to stand out above the rest, then be average.
First of all, as always my opinions are my own, not those of my employer. Since I have 2 children I was happy to learn that the Netherlands would be one of the first countries to get Disney+ streaming. So I subscribed for the testing period, problem all devices in my home run Fedora. I started up…
FireEye confirms that APT41 Group hacked TeamViewer; attackers might have accessed billions of devices : web application security IICS
NordVPN, a virtual private network provider that promises to “protect your privacy online,” has confirmed it was hacked. The admission comes following rumors that the company had been breached. It first emerged that NordVPN had an expired internal private key exposed, potentially allowi…
Torrance resident Seth Shapiro has filed a federal lawsuit against AT&T, alleging that the wireless provider’s employees helped hackers pull off a ‘SIM Swap’ hack that robbed him of $1.8 million, and he says chat logs from the arrested hackers prove it.
A bunch of rats have learned how to drive tiny vehicles around to pick up food. How did this unlikely scenario come around, you’re no doubt asking? Well, f
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As the market continues to turn against the wave of highly valued venture-backed startups operating with little end in sight to their huge losses — Uber and WeWork being two prime examples — another startup is taking a proactive step to get ahead of the story, by cutting costs and restr…
A study looks at the question of what might distinguish men and women in the ways they view their ex-partners