Art on the Moon

The NY times recently asked eight artists what art projects they would do if they could fly to the Moon. Here's Kara Walker's answ | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 7 years ago

John W. Campbell, a chief architect of science fiction's Golden Age

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@tribpub.com | 7 years ago

Why do we need Q#?

Why we decided to develop Q#, a new language for quantum computing. | Continue reading


@blogs.msdn.microsoft.com | 7 years ago

Tracking and snooping on a million kids

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@pentestpartners.com | 7 years ago

How Are We Doing at Enforcing Our Community Standards?

Today, we're publishing our second Community Standards Enforcement Report. | Continue reading


@newsroom.fb.com | 7 years ago

Snowvember pain: Multiple reports of trees down

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


@evgrieve.com | 7 years ago

Up to 3M kids' GPS watches can be tracked by parents and any miscreant

Gadgets can be hacked to spy on, find youngsters – claim | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 7 years ago

“Being six is so hard.  I have to go to school, and do math,...

“Being six is so hard.  I have to go to school, and do math, and do a lot of words, and spell things, and take tests every Friday, and exercise, and play games that I don’t want to play.  And mom says we’re going to have another baby soon, so it’s going to be crazy.  We wanted a … | Continue reading


@humansofnewyork.com | 7 years ago

The Purpose of Life Is Not Happiness: It’s Usefulness

For the longest time, I believed that there’s only one purpose of life: And that is to be happy. Right? Why else go through all the pain and hardship? It’s to achieve happiness in some way. | Continue reading


@getpocket.com | 7 years ago

How Sweetgreen Got to $1B

Sweetgreen is poised to make history as one of the food world’s most successful startups | Continue reading


@eater.com | 7 years ago

Amazon DynamoDB encrypts all customer data at rest

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@aws.amazon.com | 7 years ago

Vue 3.0 Updates

Vue 3.0 Updates Evan You VueConf TO, Nov. 2018 | Continue reading


@docs.google.com | 7 years ago

The association between intelligence and lifespan is mostly genetic (2015)

Abstract. Background: Several studies in the new field of cognitive epidemiology have shown that higher intelligence predicts longer lifespan. This positive co | Continue reading


@academic.oup.com | 7 years ago

A Go-Based, Firmware Embeddable Root File System with JIT Compilation (2015) [pdf]

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@usenix.org | 7 years ago

U.S. Census: For Young Adults, Cohabitation Is Up, Marriage Is Down

Estimates from the 2018 Current Population Survey show that living together is a more common lifestyle for young adults ages 18 to 24 than marriage. | Continue reading


@census.gov | 7 years ago

Feynman, Waldo and the Wickedest Man in the World (2010)

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@softmachines.org | 7 years ago

The Depression hasn’t gone away you know

I know all of us on this side of the Atlantic are terribly excited about the latest Brexit/leadership crisis but – unbelievable as it may sound – there are even bigger fish to fry. A st… | Continue reading


@samizdata.net | 7 years ago

First Film Version of Frankenstein, Newly Restored

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@blogs.loc.gov | 7 years ago

What can we learn from Eric Schmidt and apply to defense acquisition?

That was Eric Schmidt on Conversations with Tyler. This gets right to the heart of technology transition and defense acquisition reform. Splitting one office into two conflicting cultures is essentially doing the opposite of what Eric Schmidt recommends, which is to get "research … | Continue reading


@acquisitiontalk.com | 7 years ago

Making a Simple MERN Stack App More Functional with Material UI

Learn to build an authenticated full-stack application using MERN, styled with Material UI components. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 years ago

The World’s Fastest Talking Man Performs the Michael Jackson Song ‘Bad’ in 20 Seconds in a 1987 Interview

In a 1987 interview, John Moschitta Jr, actor and then Guinness World Record holder for World's Fastest Talker, opened up to reporter Marcus Jones about | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 7 years ago

High-Performance Mapping: A React Performance Case Study

A case study in performance optimization | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 years ago

Don’t Panic transfer.sh will live on Thanks to Storj Lab support

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@mobile.twitter.com | 7 years ago

Silicon eyed as way to boost electric car battery potential

The race to build a better electric car battery is turning to silicon, with several companies working to engineer types of the material that can boost driving range and cut production costs. | Continue reading


@mobile.reuters.com | 7 years ago

Mars Opportunity Rover Appears to Contact Earth After 5 Months of Silence

NASA’s Deep Space Network started receiving a small amount of data from the rover on Thursday afternoon. | Continue reading


@motherboard.vice.com | 7 years ago

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@manton.org | 7 years ago

‘Living the RV Life’ Book Release & Full-Time Freedom Week – Exciting RVing Stuff!

This upcoming week is a super exciting one for the RV world. Lots of amazing stuff up, and we’re honored to be involved with two significant events we’d like to invite you to come along… | Continue reading


@technomadia.com | 7 years ago

The next version of HTTP won’t be using TCP

HTTP is switching to a protocol layered on top of UDP. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 7 years ago

Computing Higher Order Derivatives of Matrix and Tensor Expressions [pdf]

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@matrixcalculus.org | 7 years ago

Columbia Gas engineer's failures at root of gas explosions, NTSB says

A report by the National Transportation Safety Board set out a new series of urgent recommendations for Columbia Gas of Massachusetts. | Continue reading


@bostonglobe.com | 7 years ago

ZeroBounce Announces New API for Bulk Email Validation

ZeroBounce, provider of email verification services, has announced the addition of a new API for bulk email validation. The new API is designed for users with frequent email validation needs, that would prefer to automate the entire process. | Continue reading


@programmableweb.com | 7 years ago

D. B. Cooper

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@en.wikipedia.org | 7 years ago

Robots Finally Learning to Clean the Bathroom

Team Homer teaches TIAGo to autonomously clean a toilet, and it's about time | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 7 years ago

Core Intuition 350 and M.b follow-up

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@manton.org | 7 years ago

The Emperor Wears No Clothes: Amazon and South Bend

Amazon’s HQ2 decision serves as a good reminder: they and the other tech giants should not, nay, deserve not come to South Bend. | Continue reading


@westsb.com | 7 years ago

Black Friday production readiness guide from Google

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@cloud.google.com | 7 years ago

Tulsa to pay remote workers $10k to relocate

Tulsa Remote is a one-year program that offers a $10,000 grant and additional benefits to eligible remote workers who move to and work from Tulsa. | Continue reading


@tulsaremote.com | 7 years ago

Show HN: An “automatic” way to learn Chinese

Autolang rapidly builds up your vocabulary from whatever current level you are at. With 30 minutes a day, you can learn 300 Chinese characters a month while remembering 95% of them and get the hang of the language, not just the vocabulary.Whether you are a beginner or already kno … | Continue reading


@play.google.com | 7 years ago

The Future of “Going to Work”

For some, “going to work” means a long ride to an office building. For others, it’s just a walk down the hall to a home office. For a growing number of workers, “going to work” means plugging in headphones and flipping open a laptop at the local coffee house. These offices, homes … | Continue reading


@sococo.com | 7 years ago

A Silicon Valley early adopter tech geek blog, written by Googler Louis Gray. | Continue reading


@blog.louisgray.com | 7 years ago

Emily Ratajkowski is BACK AT IT

We knew this was coming. | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 7 years ago

The importance of mindset and the search for meaning

Our approach to human-centered change often focuses on mindset. Our mindsets drive our behaviors, and our behaviors are what deliver organizational outcomes | Continue reading


@gapingvoid.com | 7 years ago

From notoriously entrenched to more productive

According to MIT, one third (a trillion dollars) of annual healthcare resources is wasted, and they believe applying A.I. could massively cut down on this | Continue reading


@gapingvoid.com | 7 years ago

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 7 years ago

The Profound Emotional Difference Between Bruce Springsteen’s First Album and Second Albums

Music writer Polyphonic, who creates informative video essays on an ongoing basis takes a rather insightful look at the emotional difference between Bruce | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 7 years ago

Multi-Robot Collaboration, Teaming AND Swarming

We are developing systems that collaborate. Because they work together, they’re able to achieve an end effect that would be more significant than if they were working individually. | Continue reading


@shield.ai | 7 years ago

Data in the spotlight: improving scientific communication

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@gabrielaplucinska.com | 7 years ago

Uber Releases Ugly 3Q 2018 Results: Losses Widen to $1.1B, Growth Slows

It''s getting hard to believe Uber's story. | Continue reading


@nakedcapitalism.com | 7 years ago