Microsoft’s purchase of Github is the latest chapter in capitalism’s oldest story: the absorption of artisan labor into the circuits of capital. | Continue reading
Nei giorni scorsi sono stati diffusi i dati relativi all’andamento del settore degli audiolibri in Canada e nel Regno Unito nel 2017. In entrambi i casi si tratta di una crescita che non mostra segni di cedimento. | Continue reading
This piece grew from a number of conversations with people of Austrian economic persuasion, mostly Bitcoiners and goldbugs (which these d... | Continue reading
This population-based cohort study examines the risk for respiratory, allergic, and infectious diseases following surgical removal of adenoids, tonsils, or both in children durring the first 9 years of life. | Continue reading
NASA’s seemingly unstoppable Mars rover Opportunity has been knocked out by a gigantic dust storm that is enveloping the red planet and blotting out the sun. | Continue reading
As companies race to make lightning-fast shipping the norm, they need to consider the environmental impacts of new methods including drone delivery. | Continue reading
PHP Composer is not just a dependency manager. It has got a wing of other weapons to help you easily write, manage and consume reusable code. | Continue reading
In a blow to the custom themers out there, Google has responded to the cry for Substratum "support" to return to stock Android. The verdict is that the bre... by Jordan Palmer in Android OS, Google, News | Continue reading
The IQ scores of young people have begun to fall after rising steadily since the Second World War, according to the first authoritative study of the phenomenon. The decline, which is equivalent to... | Continue reading
is a video camera that runs deep learning models directly on the device, out in the field. I wrote about the hardware and system software in depth last year; here’s a quick recap: Hardware – 4 megapixel camera (1080P video), 2D microphone array, Intel Atom® Processor, dual-band W … | Continue reading
At atomsandbits we implement some seriously large formulas in TensorFlow. If we just went from LaTeX to tf. we wouldn’t be able to do it… | Continue reading
In ITV documentary The Fast Fix: Diabetes a team of doctors challenge a group of five people with type 2 diabetes to overhaul their lifestyles by surviving on a mere 800 calories a day. | Continue reading
The agency should be "balancing risks with potential advantages," NASEM says. | Continue reading
Computers can take minutes to autonomously analyse a sample that previously took hours to test | Continue reading
Microsoft’s commitment to protecting customers from vulnerabilities in our products, services, and devices includes providing security updates that address these vulnerabilities when they are discovered. We understand that researchers have wanted better clarity around the securit … | Continue reading
As Californians prepare to vote on whether to divide their state into three, we look at who gets what in the deal. | Continue reading
Number of options and naming conventions are causing consternation throughout the semiconductor supply chain. | Continue reading
By Michael Behr, Software Engineer; Ian Swett, Software Engineer For four years now, Google has been using QUIC, a UDP-based encrypted tra... | Continue reading
Reading the latest post from John H, I was reminded of this one from 2011, about when the baton was being passed from Palin to Trump. A few thoughts on this * Agreeing with Corey’s take, ther… | Continue reading
Acoustics researchers have created an intimate sonic document of the life of the narwhal, the unicorn of the sea. | Continue reading
Your DNS Setup can have a great effect on performance and DDoS resilience. | Continue reading
The first thing that happened when I drove a Tesla on Autopilot was an instant, unsettling feeling of not being comfortable in the car at all, thinking it’s always a moment away from crashing. Slowly, I got used to it and calmed down, just like everyone else I’ve talked to who ha … | Continue reading
A common misconception in telecoms is that there is an equivalent of Moore’s Law for networks. Whist it is true that we have seen exponential growth in data transmission rates – itself driven by past rapid improvements in opto-electronics – no such property holds for networks as … | Continue reading
I studied business in undergrad, but worked as a dev for several years. Now I'm working my way towards starting my own indie company, and want to develo... | Continue reading
We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.2.50, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.2. This release: Updates Kotlin support in the Eclipse IDE plugin Adds new functions in common and… | Continue reading
Thread by @JanelleCShane: "These "I forced a bot to watch X" posts are almost certainly 100% human-written with no bot involved. Here's how you can tell. 1/12 First of all, neural nets learn by example. If you show it 1,000 hours of video (assuming 120,000 unique 30- […]" | Continue reading
In September 2017, Axiom Zen drafted ERC-721, the influential non-fungible token standard that, as CryptoKitties took off with over $20M… | Continue reading
The federal space agency says it 'illegal for private citizens to own lunar material' | Continue reading
When it comes to cryptocurrency, Ethereum is not the other white meat. It’s younger and less expensive than Bitcoin, but it also has great capabilities Bitcoin does not. Chief among these is its incredible versatility | Continue reading
Speaking of Pangaea, this video shows how the present-day continents came to be formed from the Pangaea supercontinent about 240 | Continue reading
((OTRS)) Community Edition is one of the most successful open source projects in the area of help desk and IT service management worldwide. More than 5,000 active community members improve the service management software with every release by reporting bugs, adding self-developed … | Continue reading