The Lost Art of Thinking for Pleasure

People around the world prefer to be distracted than to think good thoughts. | Continue reading


@psychologytoday.com | 4 years ago

Writing a program that writes itself

What is a Quine and how to write one. | Continue reading


@juliu.is | 4 years ago

How to Like People More

Start by finding what there is to like | Continue reading


@forge.medium.com | 4 years ago

Volvo starts selling electric trucks

Volvo announced that it has started selling its new electric trucks in some markets in Europe with deliveries starting next year. Last year, the Swedish group announced that it would bring its electric trucks to the road in 2018 and start selling them in 2019. Over the next few m … | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 4 years ago

Neural representation of yourself is replicated in the brains of friends

The brain activity patterns found in your friends' brains when they consider your personality traits may be remarkably similar to what is found in your's when | Continue reading


@sciencebeta.com | 4 years ago

Shanghai authorities form a blockchain alliance to improve trading operations

Government authorities in the Chinese city of Shanghai, along with China’s central bank and other banks, have formed a blockchain alliance to improve trade finance operations. The Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, Shanghai Customs, the People’s Bank of China and the Bank … | Continue reading


@theblockcrypto.com | 4 years ago

How to Code? – 11

I will summarize our journey in creating a backup application so far. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Spkr, an app launching on iOS today, bills itself as the “first audio platform centered on short-form content”—and wants to solve podcast discovery. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Tech VCS and Biotech VCS: Talking Past Each Other on AI Drug Discovery

[Editor’s Note: this is a new column called “Astounding HealthTech” by TR contributor David Shaywitz.] If you want to know the difference between tech venture capitalists and biotech VCs, look at their respective views on AI applications for drug discovery. Many of the most promi … | Continue reading


@timmermanreport.com | 4 years ago

Password Sharing Costs Netflix over $1.5B Annually

A recent survey highlights just how much revenue Netflix loses on a yearly basis thanks to password sharing. | Continue reading


@cbr.com | 4 years ago

A trove of voicemails, emails and messages on social media provided to Yahoo News by the whistleblower’s legal team demonstrate the effects of efforts by Trump allies to vilify those testifying against the president in the impeachment inquiry. | Continue reading


@news.yahoo.com | 4 years ago

I Decided to Create Orsec Technologies Cyber Security Startup

November 7, 2019: ORSEC Technologies posted images on LinkedIn | Continue reading


@linkedin.com | 4 years ago

Changing climate is narrowing options for migrating birds

Across an entire desert or ocean, migratory birds make some of the most extreme journeys found in nature, but there are still huge gaps in our understanding of how they manage to travel these vast distances and what a changing climate means for their migration patterns. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Scientists map mouse personality

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, together with colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Sciencein Israel have developed a computational method to objectively measure the personality of mice living in a semi-natural, group environment. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Minimizing post-harvest food losses

The crops have been harvested. Now it is important to store the various crops well and to preserve them as long and as carefully as possible. Post-harvest losses due to spoilage, however, represent a significant problem along the supply chain and lead to profit losses in the mill … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Does Your AI Have Users’ Best Interests at Heart?

The law doesn’t always provide clear ethical boundaries. | Continue reading


@hbr.org | 4 years ago

The president misses his reality-TV days and is thinking of what show he can create once he’s out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 4 years ago

Pain-Free Forms with React Hook Form

How to deal with forms and data-validation in React using react-hook-form. 5 form-validation patterns for a hustle-free forms. | Continue reading


@nordschool.com | 4 years ago

Show HN: TiDB Playground, a Golang Database in WebAssembly

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@tour.tidb.io | 4 years ago

The Miro Design Sprint Kit

Tanya Junell, Director of Product at Blue Label Labs, introduces her Miro Design Sprint Kit that has everything you need to run Remote Design Sprints. | Continue reading


@bluelabellabs.com | 4 years ago

Show HN: Collective.Energy – Crowdsource climate solutions as a community

This community is a foundry and catalyst for ideas that can help to solve the climate crisis. | Continue reading


@collective.energy | 4 years ago

Microsoft’s Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage

Project Silica extends storage reliability goals from "decades" to "centuries." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 years ago

Study finds season an important factor in soil microbe sampling

Soil bacterial communities influence crop success and agricultural sustainability by interacting with plants in a variety of ways, from exchanging nutrients to influencing plant susceptibility to infection. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Catalyst switching means four become one

Catalyst switch strategy is the key step in the production of a four-component crystalline tetrablock quarterpolymer. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Established mass production technology for solid-solution alloy nanoparticles

In the JST Strategic Basic Research Programs, Furuya Metal and Professor Hiroshi Kitagawa, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, have developed mass production technology that enables the continuous synthesis of several nm solid-solution alloy particles, which had previou … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

We must be vigilant about emerging issues affecting waterways flowing into Great Barrier Reef lagoon

We must be vigilant about emerging issues that could affect our waterways flowing into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

150 Years of Nature

A century and a half of research and discovery. | Continue reading


@nature.com | 4 years ago

Advanced AI built Microsoft’s vision for ubiquitous computing in HoloLens 2

Now shipping to customers, HoloLens 2 uses AI to create a mixed reality in facilitating one of the most basic human impulses: exchanging knowledge. | Continue reading


@news.microsoft.com | 4 years ago

The Morning Watch: Is Martin Scorsese Right About Marvel Movies?, ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Cast Roundtable & More

In this edition, is Martin Scorsese right about Marvel movies? A video essay thinks so. Plus, the cast of Dolemite Is My Name has a good chat, and more. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

5 LGBTQ Travel Tips for Asia

In this guest post, Natalie and Charlotte share their tips and advice to help you stay safe and have fun as a gay traveler in Asia! | Continue reading


@nomadicmatt.com | 4 years ago

ToyBox and PlayTable Partner Together For Blockchain Enabled Toys, Souvenirs, and Collectibles

In conjunction with the 2nd Annual San Francisco Blockchain Week last week; PlayTable and ToyBox announced they’ve entered into a strategic partnership | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 4 years ago

How Communities Can Build Psychological Resilience to Disaster

To improve their social and psychological resilience to disaster, experts recommend that individuals be informed, volunteer if possible, and stay socially connected. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 4 years ago

Easy Steamed Broccoli

Steamed broccoli is the very definition of easy! This healthy side dish is the epitome of simple: it turns out bright green and crisp tender every time. | Continue reading


@acouplecooks.com | 4 years ago

Mathematics at the speed of light

AMOLF researchers and their collaborators from the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC/CUNY) in New York have created a nanostructured surface capable of performing on-the-fly mathematical operations on an input image. This discovery could boost the speed of existing imaging p … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Yandex Self-Driving Division Starts Testing Autonomous Delivery Robot

When we set out to develop our self-driving technology, we envisioned a future of safer and more convenient transportation. As we continue… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Fast – One-click sign up, login and checkout

Fast - One-click sign up, login and checkout | Continue reading


@fast.co | 4 years ago

Stop adding NPM dependencies (thoughtlessly)

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@dev.to | 4 years ago

How to Present at a Hack Day

I go to lots of hack days and hackathons. Some are big corporate affairs, some are boutique community events. They all have one thing in common – Geeks suck at giving demos. You have 3 minute… | Continue reading


@shkspr.mobi | 4 years ago

The Global Private Cloud Market size is expected to reach $183B by 2025

NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Private Cloud Server Market size is expected to reach $183 billion by 2025, rising at a market growth of... | Continue reading


@prnewswire.com | 4 years ago

Plants and fungi together could slow climate change

A new global assessment shows that human impacts have greatly reduced plant-fungus symbioses, which play a key role in sequestering carbon in soils. Restoring these ecosystems could be one strategy to slow climate change. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Compiling a Functional Language Using C++

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@danilafe.com | 4 years ago

Oxygen deficiency rewires mitochondria

Mitochondria burn oxygen and provide energy for the body. Cells lacking oxygen or nutrients have to change their energy supply quickly in order to keep growing. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing have now shown that mitochondria are reprogrammed under … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

James Dean Reborn in CGI for Vietnam War Action-Drama

The cultural icon, who died in 1955, will return to the screen via CGI using actual footage and photos for 'Finding Jack.' | Continue reading


@hollywoodreporter.com | 4 years ago

How to Comply with HIPAA Administrative and Physical Safeguards

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@bekey.io | 4 years ago

Are We Reaching Peak Phosphorus? Maybe

The mineral is crucial for fertilizers, but nobody knows how much there is. | Continue reading


@popularmechanics.com | 4 years ago

Galactic fountains and carousels: order emerging from chaos

Scientists from Germany and the United States have unveiled the results of a newly-completed, state of the art simulation of the evolution of galaxies. TNG50 is the most detailed large-scale cosmological simulation yet. It allows researchers to study in detail how galaxies form, … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

WhatsApp rolls out SMB product ‘Catalogs’ to support local discovery and commerce

SMBs can upload images, price lists and links for all their products or services. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 4 years ago

X-rays of human skull to improve military helmets

Scientists often use complex computer models of the skull and brain when designing helmets to prevent or minimize injury to the head due to impact. These models require intricate knowledge of the behavior of the skull and brain to accurately predict what characteristics of a helm … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago