One of the most exciting discoveries in genome research was that the last common ancestor of all multicellular animals—which lived about 600 million years ago—already possessed an extremely complex genome. Many of the ancestral genes can still be found in modern day species (e.g. … | Continue reading
From my article first published on Palladium Magazine. | Continue reading
A combination of drought and controversial upstream water politics is setting up Southeast Asia for potential disaster.A SEVERE DROUGHT that has caused water levels in Southeast Asia’s Mekong River to drop to their lowest in more than 100 years could have devastating consequences … | Continue reading
Clozapine could save the lives of suicidal schizophrenic people who aren't responding to other treatments. So why are so few doctors using it? | Continue reading
Killings of those protecting nature are highest in countries with corruption and weak rule of law | Continue reading
Our mission at Scale is to accelerate the development of AI applications. We’re proud of what we’ve built over the last three years, and today we’re announcing our Series C funding round to support our continued work against that mission. | Continue reading
Defecating ducks, talking busts, and mechanised Christs — Jessica Riskin on the wonderful history of automata, machines built to mimic the processes of intelligent life. | Continue reading
The company founded by venture capitalist Kevin Harvey filled in wetland and covered up a stream, amounting to an ‘egregious violation’ of state and federal laws, North Coast water regulators said. | Continue reading
With a market cap of over $500 billion and 1.6 billion DAU, Facebook is not only the largest, but also the only exposure to social network pure-play in the mark | Continue reading
Create iOS Apps in Java Port your existing Android App, or build a native Cross-Platform App from scratch. | Continue reading
There are two types of people in the world: those with hundreds of unread messages, and those who can’t relax until their inboxes are cleared out. | Continue reading
Not just an IT department problem. | Continue reading
Ofcom will open up a large tranche of the UK airwaves for enterprises to deploy private and shared networks, dedicating the 3.8-4.2 GHz band for local deployments, requiring national operators ... | Continue reading
The new Dune movie release date has been pushed back slightly, and Warner Bros. Pictures has given an opening date for the Elvis Presley biopic. | Continue reading
A journey from subdomain #SELFXSS to site-wide #CSRF @Twitter. A private talk I delivered in 2016. | Continue reading
Welcome to the first edition of superorganizers, a side project where I explore how the smartest people in the world organize what they know to do their best work. If you’re getting this email, it’s probably because I thought you’d be interested in this. Feel free to unsubscribe! | Continue reading
From a July trip to Washington, D.C.: This particular outlet of Nando’s Peri-Peri is in Chinatown. Note that while Christianity and Judaism are respected to a lesser degree (smaller font) tha… | Continue reading
Jon, Mark, Johnny, and special guest Jamal Yusuf discuss what to expect when attending a conference like GopherCon. What should you be doing before you attend GopherCon? What should you bring to the conference? What shouldn’t you bring? What are the training sessions about? What … | Continue reading
Research suggests it's largely because they're anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market and beset by racial fears | Continue reading
Attacks that introduce malicious modifications to software are seemingly on the rise. In the Open Source Software ecosystem a number of recent attacks have shown that seemingly trusted distribution points are at risk of distributing undetected modification to users. The general p … | Continue reading
Hi everybody, my name is Gabriele Contilli and I am the co-founder of Rocket PPC - a Pay per Click agency based in Italy with a highly-experienced team of specialists. When Pasquale and I decided to launch our own agency, we had 3 clear objectives: - To specifically hire highly- … | Continue reading
New measure could prevent producers from making (some) bad films | Continue reading
A general and high-performance graph embedding system for various applications Designed for CPU-GPU hybrid architecture | Continue reading
iOS 13’s Health app not only gathers more of our scattered health information but also helps us understand and use it in practical and potentially profound ways. Here’s what you can look forward to in a few months. | Continue reading
It looks like smartphone farms could be more profitable than livestock or crop farming, yes? - Tefo Mohapi | Continue reading
I've noticed that raising money for a biotech or other life science company in 2019 looks a lot like raising money for a tech company 10 years ago. Since then, fundamental forces caused fundraising for tech companies to change dramatically. And I believe that they are going to ch … | Continue reading
There are no good options. But some are worse than others. | Continue reading
Researchers in the Department of Physics of ETH Zurich have measured how electrons in so-called transition metals get redistributed within a fraction of an optical oscillation cycle. They observed the electrons getting concentrated around the metal atoms within less than a femtos … | Continue reading
Firefox for Android (Fennec) now supports the Web Authentication API as of version 68. WebAuthn blends public-key cryptography into web application logins, and is our ... | Continue reading
Excessive CO2 discharge derived from the continuous burning of fossil fuels has caused global warming and environmental issues. Artificial conversion of excess CO2 into serviceable energy products is an important pathway to achieve sustainable development. Solar-driven photocatal … | Continue reading
Adjuvants are chemicals that are commonly added to plant protection products, such as pesticides, to help them spread, adhere to targets, disperse appropriately, or prevent drift, among other things. There was a widespread assumption that these additives would not cause a biologi … | Continue reading