String Theory May Create Far Fewer Universes Than Thought

Some physicists claim the popular landscape of universes in string theory may not exist | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 5 years ago

The Best Linen Sheets

After reading hundreds of owner reviews, testing samples from 21 sets, and sleeping in seven sets on our own beds, these are our new favorite linen sheets. | Continue reading


@thewirecutter.com | 5 years ago

A Book from the Sky

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@en.wikipedia.org | 5 years ago

Hey DevOps Leave My UI Alone

It's great that you can deliver continuously, but over-releasing on your user interface is going to drive your customers crazy. | Continue reading


@hackernoon.com | 5 years ago

#DeleteSpotify

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@mobile.twitter.com | 5 years ago

The World’s Largest Gummy Pizza

Vat19, who are known for their giant gummy products, has created The World's Largest Gummy Pizza that they are selling by the slice (each slice weighs 28 | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Harley-Davidson’s electric bike to hit the streets in 2019

Harley-Davidson unveiled its strategy to launch new products, expanded access and an improved dealer network. The latest ensemble includes electric motorcycles and even an electric bicycle. It has planned to start selling the first electric motorcycle, LiveWire, in 2019 that come … | Continue reading


@news.alphastreet.com | 5 years ago

4 hard-won lessons from working on a professional software engineering team

I used to only be a solo developer, but working on a team has shifted my mindset and taught me to appreciate some new values. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

LHC accelerates its first 'atoms'

Protons might be the Large Hadron Collider's bread and butter, but that doesn't mean it can't crave more exotic tastes from time to time. On Wednesday, 25 July, for the very first time, operators injected not just atomic nuclei but lead "atoms" containing a single electron into t … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Are Moon Colonies Possible – Or the Fantasy of Billionaires?

Growing up, my brother and I couldn’t get enough of Space: 1999, a mid-’70s series that hypnotized us with cool special effects, the crush-worthy Barbara Bain, who acted alongside her real-life… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

IP Over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service

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@tools.ietf.org | 5 years ago

Welcome to the Next Deadly AIDS Pandemic

The world thought it had fought the HIV virus to a stalemate—but its strategy was flawed in ways that are only now becoming clear. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

Micron's New Computer Memory Paradigm, 3D XPoint, and Artificial Intelligence

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@linkedin.com | 5 years ago

Are you in a virtual machine? Swallow the Red Pill

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@web.archive.org | 5 years ago

NBEAM: How I Wrote an Ultra-Fast DNA Sequence Alignment Algorithm in JavaScript

Science. JavaScript. Speed. Can we pick only one? | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Safaricom is looking at introduce M-Pesa in Ethiopia

Talks at an advanced stage to take M-Pesa to Ethiopia 🇪🇹. | Continue reading


@iafrikan.com | 5 years ago

I Think Paris Hilton Is Aiming For a Real Housewives Slot

Just cut and paste this shot into the RHoBH credits. | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 5 years ago

Find Your Voice

The first part is having something to say. The second part is figuring out how to say it, without getting hurt. | Continue reading


@gapingvoid.com | 5 years ago

Fortnite on Android may drive its battle bus past Google’s 30% cut

Epic pays percentages to most digital game shops but has its own PC launcher. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 years ago

Evolving the Firefox Brand

Say “Firefox” and most people think of a web browser on their laptop or phone, period. TL;DR, there’s more to the story now, and our branding needs to evolve. With ... | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 5 years ago

X-ray technology reveals never-before-seen matter around black hole

In an international collaboration between Japan and Sweden, scientists clarified how gravity affects the shape of matter near the black hole in binary system Cygnus X-1. Their findings, which were published in Nature Astronomy this month, may help scientists further understand th … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

How people do evil in groups. the case of Nazi Germans

Why some people choose to do evil remains a puzzle, but are we starting to understand how this behaviour is triggered? | Continue reading


@aeon.co | 5 years ago

TARMAC: The design and implementation of an ARM – x86 dynamic recompiler (2001) [pdf]

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@davidsharp.com | 5 years ago

ConvertKit will not change its name – a great apology

When you speak up, it matters. We heard your concerns and have decided to stay ConvertKit. Read on to understand our why. | Continue reading


@convertkit.com | 5 years ago

Fiction generator post-mortem: mythology generator

For JuNoGenMo[1] this year, I wrote a small script to generate work in the style of sumerian mythology. | Continue reading


@hackernoon.com | 5 years ago

Automation is labor displacing

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@nber.org | 5 years ago

Bing Maps Routing API Adds Waypoint Optimization

​Microsoft has added waypoint optimization to the Bing Maps Routing API, which allows developers to create routes between driving locations. The API is ideal for delivery and transportation businesses, and the route optimization functionality is intended to address the traveling … | Continue reading


@programmableweb.com | 5 years ago

Haven Life Announces Term Life Insurance API

Haven Life recently announced API access to its term life insurance buying process. The API provides companies with an interest in term life insurance (wellness sites, insurance lead generators, etc.) the ability to quote and sell insurance without the user leaving their site or … | Continue reading


@programmableweb.com | 5 years ago

Bay Area’s High Costs Drive Away Some Tech Firms

Jeff Cavins employed many typical Silicon Valley tactics as he tried to grow his new company. The startup Outdoorsy—which helps people rent out their RVs to other travelers—got into a Palo Alto-based accelerator, raised more than $25 million in venture capital and eventually show … | Continue reading


@theinformation.com | 5 years ago

SEO for early stage startups – Must-dos and FAQ

Recently, I did office hours for a few YCombinator startups, and SEO was a popular topic. I was giving similar advice to each startup, so decided to write a blog to document the advice I gave. In this post, I’ll talk about how to get started with SEO at very early stage companies … | Continue reading


@growthengblog.com | 5 years ago

Augmenting Agile with Formal Methods

I really like the c2 wiki as a historical artifact: a lot of big names in Agile and Extreme Programming argued with each other there.1 One thing they did was the Extreme Programming Challenge, where people tried to test the limits of these approaches. They’d find edge problems (d … | Continue reading


@hillelwayne.com | 5 years ago

Skift Is 6 – Patience: The Radical New Business Model

Skift is turning six today. Of all the achievements anyone can ask of a company from its infancy, staying power — mere survival — is the toughest of them. Skift is turning six today. Of all the achievements anyone can ask of a company from its infancy, staying power — mere surviv … | Continue reading


@skift.com | 5 years ago

Day 557: "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

"Trump Derangement Syndrome." | Continue reading


@whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com | 5 years ago

Public static VS static public

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@mobile.twitter.com | 5 years ago

If you're a FinTech startup in South Africa you should check this out

Applications are now open for the AlphaCode Incubate programme. | Continue reading


@iafrikan.com | 5 years ago

Nine states are suing the Trump administration to stop 3D-printed guns

DIY gun proponent Cody Wilson promised to fight the multi-state lawsuit: “If we are a named party, we will litigate and defend our rights.” | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago

Intel Core i9-9900K leaked benchmark leaves AMD Ryzen 7 2700X in the dust

3DMark score points to an impressively speedy chip from Intel | Continue reading


@techradar.com | 5 years ago

Building Models That Learn to Discover Structure and Relations

Thomas Kipf, Ethan Fetaya, Jackson Wang, Max Welling, Rich Zemel | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed. They're Paid For

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@choice.npr.org | 5 years ago

RouteQL – GraphQL without the GraphQL

GraphQL represents a paradigm shift in the way that we think about requesting data on the frontend. | Continue reading


@codeburst.io | 5 years ago

How a Hacker Allegedly Stole Millions by Hijacking Phone Numbers

California authorities say a 20-year-old college student hijacked more than 40 phone numbers and stole $5 million, including some from cryptocurrency investors at a blockchain conference Consensus. | Continue reading


@motherboard.vice.com | 5 years ago

Trump seems to think F-35 is “literally invisible” in flight

Trump repeats a claim that "you can't see" F-35 fighter even when it's right next to you. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 years ago

T-Mobile to use Nokia’s gear to build its 5G network

As the race to roll out 5G wireless services to the market intensifies, T-Mobile (TMUS) said it is teaming up with Finnish handset maker Nokia to build its 5G network. | Continue reading


@news.alphastreet.com | 5 years ago

Supporting display cutouts on edge-to-edge screens

Smartphones are quickly moving towards smaller bezels and larger aspect ratios. On these devices, display cutouts are a popular way to achieve an edge-to-edge experience while providing space for important sensors on the front of the device. There are currently 16 cutout devices … | Continue reading


@android-developers.googleblog.com | 5 years ago

Scooters: The New Self-Driving Cars

The dockless scooter wars are in full swing. With the announcement of huge funding rounds at billion-dollar valuations, deals with ride-hailing companies and a spate of local regulatory action, there is a lot of attention being paid to the scooter market, and a lot of wild predic … | Continue reading


@theinformation.com | 5 years ago

Coinbase and the Widespread Adoption of Cryptocurrency

It’s time to live in the now | Continue reading


@hackernoon.com | 5 years ago

Here comes the sunscreen

The three toughest things about being a parent are the sleep deprivation, knowing when to let kids push their boundaries vs ke | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

What happens when you let computers optimize floor plans

Evolving Floorplans - 2017. | Continue reading


@joelsimon.net | 5 years ago