Gooooooood morning, Human race!!! 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
- Spaced-repetition flashcards linked to your learning materials
- Dam built by robots? Japan’s Obayashi tests it out
- Harry Eng, the Master of the “Impossible Bottle”
- Floating-Point Formats and Deep Learning
- Are we in an AI Overhang?
- Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
- Gmail, Contacts, Assistant and Messages apps no longer support sending money
- 30 years of family videos in an AI archive
- Otto: Friendly Machine Learning Assistant
- Autonomous Robots Rule: Largest Rollout in Grocery Industry
- Woodman’s Markets to deploy aisle-roving robots
- Experts recommend Machine Learning books
- Study finds learning music won’t make children smart
- Microsoft will shut down the Cortana iOS and Android apps in 2021
- Microsoft Shutting Down Cortana on Multiple Devices, Including iOS and Android
Blockchain and decentralization
- Corecursion and coinduction: how they relate to recursion and induction
- Fanouts and Percentiles: Visualizing Latency in Distributed Systems
- In October 1953 Paul Niquette coined the word ‘software’
- Tesorio is Senior Analytics Engineer and Back end Engineer – join our distributed team
- Odin – The Observable and Distributed Workflow System
Woman computer scientist of the week
Dorothy Elizabeth Denning, born August 12, 1945, is a US-American information security researcher known for lattice-based access control (LBAC), intrusion detection systems (IDS), and other cyber security innovations. She published four books and over 200 articles. Inducted into the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame in 2012, she is now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School.
Cloud and architecture
- Biologists Home in on Turing Patterns
- Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform
- Cloudflare Workers Gets Python, Scala, Kotlin, Reason and Dart support
- Benchmarking the Major Cloud Vision AutoML Tools
- How to Choose a Neutral Net Architecture for Medical Image Segmentation
- I’m building a catalog of cloud architecture
- Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers
Development and languages
- Deep JavaScript chapter: How do environments and closures work in JavaScript?
- Google reportedly peeks into Android data to gain edge over third-party apps
- Research Based on the .NET Runtime
- Porting a macOS Clojure Dev Setup to Windows WSL2
- Highlights from Git 2.28
- Speculation in JavaScriptCore
- NetLogo: A multi-agent programmable modeling environment
- Dafny: Verification-Aware Programming Language
- GOMP, a tool for comparing Git branches
- Exactly-Once Initialization in Asynchronous Python
- JavaScript-free personal bio hosting
Quote of the week
Never attribute to funny hardware that which can be adequately explained by broken locking.
— Erik Quanstrom
Enterprises
- An Intel 8080 Assembler and Online Simulator
- Grit Has a Negligible Effect on Success Compared to Intelligence
- One company’s plan to build a search engine Google can’t beat
- Warren Buffett 1997 Email Exchange on Microsoft
- The Electric Car Atop Europe’s Sales Charts Isn’t a Tesla or VW
- Google to Keep Employees Home Until Summer 2021 Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
- Google will let employees work from home until at least next summer
- The pandemic was just a ‘scamdemic’ – until truth hit home hard
- Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
- Not an Amazon Problem
- How to track costs in multi-tenant Amazon EKS clusters
- AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings: Notebook and Server Sales Drive a Record Quarter
- CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google prepare their antitrust defense
- Google offers refunds after smart glasses stop working
- Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data
- Did glitch help Amazon escape early questions in Washington hearing?
- Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices
- Amazon sales soar as pandemic fuels online shopping
- Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Results
- How Best Buy saved itself
- YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels
- Google adds «Black-owned» business attribute to local listings
- Google removes all Danish music from YouTube
- Microsoft Flight Simulator returned to the skies
- Balancing AMD’s Future on the Edge of a Silicon Wafer
- Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B
- Nvidia in Advanced Talks to Buy SoftBank’s Chip Company Arm
- FCC approves Amazon’s internet-from-space constellation of 3,236 satellites
- Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok’s US operations
- Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources
- Amazon investing $10B to compete against SpaceX in satellite broadband
- Developer Accuses Google of Retaliation for Assisting Antitrust Investigation
- Add popups to your website ️ backed with Google Sheets (for free)
Other news
- How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom
- Teaching Isn’t About Managing Behavior
- Redux Overview and Concepts – Reimagined Redux Tutorial
- Open-source isolated browser, free for journalists etc.
- If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention
- Topological magnet exhibits exotic quantum effects at room temperature
- A new class of magnet that exhibits novel quantum effects
- What the heroin industry can teach us about solar power
- Make School is recruiting an adjunct faculty to teach at an HBCU
- DoNotPay Unsubscribes You from Spam–and Tries to Get You Paid
- US universities announcing online Fall 2020
- Microsoft Engineer Proposes “Trampfd” for Improving Linux Security
- UPUP Simple Credit Card Verification to Reduce Fraud
- iRobot’s New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Little More Affordable
- Flipper Zero – Tamagochi for Hackers
- Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis
- What Is the PCI of Bank Payments?
- Florida Teen Arrested in Twitter Hack
- Three Individuals Charged for Alleged Roles in Twitter Hack
- Tampa teen faces 30 felony charges for hacking prominent Twitter accounts
- US Department of Homeland Security surveilling journalists covering protests