The Massive Pizza Funeral That Never Had to Happen

In 1973, a Michigan entrepreneur buried 30,000 mushroom pizzas—all for nothing. | Continue reading


@atlasobscura.com | 6 years ago

The BSD-BTC License

The BSD-BTC License, Version 1.0. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. | Continue reading


@gist.github.com | 6 years ago

Letterlocking: Lucy May Schofield’s Letters of Triangles, England

Russian Soldiers writing from the front during World War II exclusively used this letterlocking format; sealing the letter shut was forbidden. The format could be… | Continue reading


@vimeo.com | 6 years ago

Nimbys, Bananas and Beyond

Author Max Rashbrooke talks of beautiful neighbourhoods and challenges those who say no to the new. | Continue reading


@talkwellington.org.nz | 6 years ago

A Sub-$1000, Non-X86 Motherboard

If you’re building a computer, your options are nearly limitless. You can get a motherboard with red LEDs, with blue LEDs, green LEDs, or if you’re feeling spendy, RGB LEDs. You can get… | Continue reading


@hackaday.com | 6 years ago

How CA’s Effort to Prevent Wildfires Reflect a National Crisis on Climate Change

California is a wealthy, Democratic state, but local politics and sparring special-interest groups have been impediments to needed climate-adaptation legislation. | Continue reading


@newyorker.com | 6 years ago

Antivirus for PC – Open Source

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@bhudki.com | 6 years ago

DataSetPOOSFR – Image Dataset to Identify Angelina Jolie, Robert Downey JR

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@dataturks.com | 6 years ago

Facebook calls NYT story false, later confirms it on Thanksgiving Eve

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@mobile.twitter.com | 6 years ago

The best felt-tips, ballpoints, gel, fountain, and rollerball pens, as judged by the writers and editors who tested them. | Continue reading


@nymag.com | 6 years ago

Stringle: “Results of our test project with only 500 rows of data.”

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@mobile.twitter.com | 6 years ago

Four Boring Ways to Regulate Big Tech

For a couple of weeks a while back, there was a brief bubble of media personalities pressing the case for “breaking up” Big Tech. In a current events cycle dominated by news of Russian hacking, institutions under siege, “fake news” and the like, the GAFA companies’ ascent to glob … | Continue reading


@blairreeves.me | 6 years ago

Japan to hold companies accountable for AI decisions

Legal guidelines aim for increased transparency on how the technology is used | Continue reading


@asia.nikkei.com | 6 years ago

Atlas of Poetic Botany

Botanical encounters in the rainforest: trees that walk, a leaf as big as an awning, a plant that dances. This Atlas invites the reader to tour the farthest reaches of the rainforest in search of exotic—poetic—plant life. Guided in these botanical encounters by Fra … | Continue reading


@mitpress.mit.edu | 6 years ago

Compromised NPM Package: event-stream

Ownership of a popular npm package, event-stream, was transferred by the original author to a malicious user. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 years ago

10 Rules to avoid the Software Bolognese Club

Guidelines and rules for modern app architecture | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 years ago

The Bare Minimum You Should Do to Protect Your Family's Data

For a lot of families, technology is the glue that holds everything together. Learn tips to keep your family data private and safe. | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 6 years ago

AI startup Petuum aims to industrialize machine learning

Pittsburg-based Petuum, backed by SoftBank, has developed novel tools for parallelizing machine learning operations across computers. The software could help break the bottlenecks IT encounters in scaling up AI across industries. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Alibaba's Jack Ma is Communist Party member: state media

Founder and chairman has avoided the question in public | Continue reading


@asia.nikkei.com | 6 years ago

Web Audio, Autoplay Policy and Games

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@developers.google.com | 6 years ago

The pull request hack

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@felixge.de | 6 years ago

Online tracking: A 1M-site measurement and analysis

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@webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu | 6 years ago

For some queries, Google thinks it’s better to just show you an answer instead of links

Google has confirmed that it’s rolling out a new search-related feature on a wider basis after first launching as an experiment earlier this year. This particular feature might sound like it … | Continue reading


@bgr.com | 6 years ago

Monday's parting shot

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 6 years ago

The Perils of Liberal Philanthropy

The Movement for Black Lives has started turning to foundations for funding. But the history of the Black Power movement offers a cautionary tale about the warping effects of liberal philanthropy’s soft power. | Continue reading


@jacobinmag.com | 6 years ago

Hacker backdoors popular JavaScript library to steal Bitcoin funds

Users of BitPay's Copay desktop and mobile wallet apps are affected. An update has been released earlier today that doesn't contain the malicious code. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Research Shows Genetic Link Between Alcohol Dependence and Psychiatric Disorders

In the largest genetic study of it's kind an international team of researchers using data from the UK Biobank and 23andMe found shared genetic underpinnings for alcoholism and several psychiatric disorders including depression, ADHD and schizophrenia. | Continue reading


@blog.23andme.com | 6 years ago

Chrome and Firefox Developers Aim to Remove Support for FTP

Google developers have wanted to remove FTP support from Chrome for years and an upcoming change in how files stored on FTP servers are rendered in the browser may be the first step in its ultimate removal.  | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 6 years ago

Fork My Code, Please

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@skeeve.com | 6 years ago

WPP merges agencies to form ‘data-driven’ Wunderman Thompson

The new agency aims to offer "inspiration that is rooted in data-driven insight." | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 6 years ago

Allen Institute Leaderboards

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@leaderboard.allenai.org | 6 years ago

There's a Huge Problem with the Core of the Human Genome Project

"The model needs to change.” | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 6 years ago

Open-Source Without Maintainers

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@staltz.com | 6 years ago

Magnetic field diode is a first, say physicists

Rotating cylinder gets around Lorentz reciprocity | Continue reading


@physicsworld.com | 6 years ago

Choose Your Own Adventure

Let’s write a story. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 years ago

Devsense commercial VSCode PHP debugger is obfuscated open-source library

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@mobile.twitter.com | 6 years ago

Bitcoin plunges again. Now the only currency worse than Bitcoin is Venezuela’s

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@tribpub.com | 6 years ago

Wild rumor says Galaxy S10 will have up to 12GB of RAM and 1TB of built-in storage

This year is slowly drawing to a close, which means we’re in full Galaxy S10 rumor season ahead of its early 2019 launch. Just in the past few days, we’ve seen a variety of reports detailing … | Continue reading


@bgr.com | 6 years ago

★ An Alternative Theory on Purportedly Weak iPhone XR Demand

If it’s true that iPhone XR sales are slower than Apple expected — a big “if” at this point, given that only Apple has hard data — I think some part of it could be explained by Apple underestimating, even if only to a relatively small degree, how many iPhone owners are turned off … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

TV-B-Gone’s Mitch Altman Created the ArduTouch Music Synthesizer

An Arduino-compatible musical instrument that can teach digital signal processing | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 6 years ago

Commodore 64 Original Operating System Kernel Disk Found

On Twitter, Chorlton’s Wheelies (@8bitdac) posts: Whilst we are at it, behold the *original* C64 Kernal source disc (compiled on a PET) from Dennis Jarvis (software engineer at CBM). All your… | Continue reading


@blog.adafruit.com | 6 years ago

Bad Habits of UI/UX Designers

Many of the same bad habits crop up across UI/UX design teams, including creating imaginary users instead of actual end-users and unrealistic brainstorming sessions that disregard the project budget. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 years ago

InSight Mission Shows That CubeSats Can Relay Messages from Deep Space

NASA’s MarCO satellites have opened the door for a new approach to mission communications | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 6 years ago

IFComp 2018 winners

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@ifcomp.org | 6 years ago

We Bought a Ghost Town

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@nathanbarry.com | 6 years ago

Conway’s Webcam of Life

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@conway.nathanwillson.com | 6 years ago

United States blocks Iran from fusion megaproject

Other scientific ties envisioned under embattled nuclear deal are slow to develop | Continue reading


@sciencemag.org | 6 years ago

The Bitcoin hash rate for the past year; the squeeze miners find themselves in

In a bubble, Bitcoin miners can do very well. But what bubbles do is … pop. | Continue reading


@davidgerard.co.uk | 6 years ago