The State of the Side Hustle

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@podia.com | 7 years ago

Bird Box

I'm a sucker for King-inspired things, and this one hits that chord well enough to be worth a look over your Christmas break. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 7 years ago

Demographics of deportation: Noncitizens fare better in communities that are 20-40 percent Hispanic

An exhaustive new analysis of deportation practices across the country reveals a "protective effect" for noncitizens living in communities that are 20 percent to 40 percent Hispanic. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 7 years ago

The #kidtech movement: a zero-data architecture for children’s apps and sites

At SuperAwesome, we spend a lot of time thinking about the requirements for an internet that is now used by vast numbers of children (versus it’s original design, which was solely for adults). GDPR… | Continue reading


@blog.superawesome.com | 7 years ago

What Are the Main Cloud Migration Trends for 2019? Talk with Ben Silverman

Cloud migration in 2019- what are the leading trends, what are the hurdles and what Ben Silverman thinks about cloud migration impact on IT operations? | Continue reading


@loomsystems.com | 7 years ago

The Ellsberg Paradox and the ambiguity and complexity of decision-making

In 1961, Daniel Ellsberg (who is perhaps best known for leaking the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam war) considered a thought experiment involvi… | Continue reading


@blogs.lse.ac.uk | 7 years ago

Slaughter and May Publishes Innovation Guide

Slaughter and May has produced a major new report on innovation that will help organisations to consider the key issues related to business change. The report, ‘Innovation explored’, de… | Continue reading


@artificiallawyer.com | 7 years ago

Revoult got a banking licence

Today, we're incredibly excited to announce that our application for a European banking licence has been approved by the European Central Bank. As you can imagine, this is a pretty huge milestone for us. This licence will help us towards our goal to build an account where you can … | Continue reading


@blog.revolut.com | 7 years ago

Don’t Worry About Deepfakes. Worry About Why People Fall for Them

Opinion | The focus on the technology behind fake media obscures more pressing questions about the psychology and sociology of viral false narratives. | Continue reading


@undark.org | 7 years ago

Monitoring CrateDB on Kubernetes with Prometheus and Grafana

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@crate.io | 7 years ago

The benefits of a diverse mix of resources for deep decarbonization

New paper out in @Joule_CP on "Getting to zero carbon emissions in the electric power sector" https://t.co/fbB1bHEDP3Behind a paywall, but never fear: a Tweetstorm explainer is coming in T-minus 3...2...1...Hold on folks, here we go! https://t.co/az83zwkqzQ | Continue reading


@threader.app | 7 years ago

Has FaunaDB Cracked the Code for Global Transactionality?

An organization that wants to power a transactional application using a single database that spans multiple data centers around the world without giving | Continue reading


@datanami.com | 7 years ago

Hurricane flooding affects Lumbee River Basin

As the global population has exploded over the last century, nitrogen has become one of the most common water contaminants in the world. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 7 years ago

ON customer lifetime value in ecommerce

The customer lifetime value (CLV) is an estimate of all the future profits to be accumulated from a relationship with a given customers… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 years ago

Vitess 3.0 is out Making MySQL Sharding much less painful

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@vitess.io | 7 years ago

Spotlight on ICT2018 Expert Panel on the Next Generation Internet

Vienna, 5th December. A packed room at ICT2018 for the session on Next... | Continue reading


@ngi.eu | 7 years ago

Hackers fooled Save the Children into sending $1M to a phony account

Save the Children Federation said it was the victim of a $1 million cyberscam last year. | Continue reading


@bostonglobe.com | 7 years ago

Peak Brexit

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@antipope.org | 7 years ago

New manga tells the story of SteveJ, Woz, and the founding of Apple

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@loopinsight.com | 7 years ago

The 'gilets jaunes' movement is not a Facebook revolution

In less than a month, France's gilets jaunes (yellow vests) have gone from being a celebrated example of Facebook's ability to power a spontaneous revolution to a cautionary tale of how social networks can be manipulated by outsiders to provoke outrage and sow dissension. But in … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 7 years ago

Study confirms rise in megaesophagus cases in dogs was linked to pet food

A new report has found that the increase in megaesophagus cases in Australia in 2017 and 2018 can be linked to Advance Dermocare pet food. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 7 years ago

Woman gets her DNA tested and finds out she is related to husband

Was our newfound connection romantic … or creepy? | Continue reading


@thecut.com | 7 years ago

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@politicalwire.com | 7 years ago

Applied Linear Algebra Textbook by Boyd and Vandenberghe

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@vmls-book.stanford.edu | 7 years ago

Did a 1912 Newspaper Article Predict Global Warming?

A newspaper clipping from 1912 that anticipates the global warming potential of burning coal is authentic and consistent with the history of climate science. | Continue reading


@snopes.com | 7 years ago

Using flask like Django

I recently started work on a project which was using flask and mongodb. The reasons to use flask by the previous dev were because of how… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 years ago

How to Prepare the Room for a DDD Big Picture Event Storming

Running a Domain Driven Design (DDD) Big Picture Event Storming is a great way to kick start a project. Fortunately, it only requires straightforward room preparation. Here is a detailed checklist going from preparing a Visual Agenda to Post-Its to food. | Continue reading


@philippe.bourgau.net | 7 years ago

Stop-and-frisk on the way to school

Stop-and-frisk search and school safety are both subjects of frequent public debate, but there's a place these two issues meet that hasn't gotten much attention: On the journeys of city students to and from school. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 7 years ago

We can't know the future cost of climate change. Let's focus on the cost of avoiding it instead

As delegates at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, discuss the possibility of restraining global warming to 1.5℃, it might sound like a reasonable question to ask how much money it will cost if they fail. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 7 years ago

Taking Notes on an iPad with LiquidText

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@macdrifter.com | 7 years ago

We have a Christmas comet: How to spot interplanetary comet 46P/Wirtanen

We're in for a pre-Christmas treat this weekend, as the cosmos entertains us with two equally exciting gifts: the Geminid meteor shower and the interplanetary comet 46P/Wirtanen. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 7 years ago

Whale experts call for rethink of global shipping routes to stop marine giants becoming 'roadkill'

In a new report, researchers from Macquarie University are calling for a rethink of global shipping routes, to protect whales and sharks from becoming marine 'roadkill'. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 7 years ago

China Set to Shock Markets with Low Glyphosate Residue Limits in Food Imports

China is set to introduce maximum residue limits (MRLs) of 200 parts per billion (ppb) or lower for glyphosate in all imported final food products and raw | Continue reading


@sustainablepulse.com | 7 years ago

The Best Android E-Readers of 2018

Android e-readers have really grown up this year and many brands are packing some serious hardware power to provide a robust experience. This is a far cry from a few years ago when single core pro | Continue reading


@goodereader.com | 7 years ago

Using AI to Improve Electronic Health Records

Smarter EHRs could reduce clinician burnout and improve patient care. | Continue reading


@hbr.org | 7 years ago

Apple deepens Austin ties, expands operations east and west

Apple will build a $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, break ground on smaller locations in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California, and over the next three years will expand in Pittsburgh, New York and Colorado. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 7 years ago

Takeover of operation of mastodon.cloud

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@press.kibousoft.co.jp | 7 years ago

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


@scripting.com | 7 years ago

Podman and user namespaces: A marriage made in heaven

Learn how to use Podman to run containers in separate user namespaces. | Continue reading


@opensource.com | 7 years ago

How effective acquisition strategies can drive growth

A strategy anchored by a focus on verticals, market leadership and technology offers a pathway for companies in the performance marketing industry to grow their businesses and unlock value for partners. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 7 years ago

Wrap-up of the NGI Networking Session at ICT2018

On 4th December 2018, the NGI team hosted a successful... | Continue reading


@ngi.eu | 7 years ago

How to best predict chemical reactions of contaminants in water

Turning on the faucet and not getting clean water, or any water at all, is a global issue. Cleaning wastewater could help make more water available. In delving into the nuances of wastewater purification, scientists often use computational chemistry approaches. Which is best? Res … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 7 years ago

The next great leap forward? Combining robots with the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things is a popular vision of objects with internet connections sending information back and forth to make our lives easier and more comfortable. It's emerging in our homes, through everything from voice-controlled speakers to smart temperature sensors. To improve … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 7 years ago

Salesforce Opens Up Lightning Platform to World’s 7 Million+ Javascript Developers

Salesforce today announced its Lightning Web Components Framework; a technology that makes it possible for developers to use the Javascript programming language to customize browser-based web applications built on top of Salesforce’s core capabilities. | Continue reading


@programmableweb.com | 7 years ago

Networking goes quantum

A scientist involved in expanding quantum communication to a network of users, is continuing his work at the University of Bristol. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 7 years ago

A Math Function Describes How Whole Societies Remember--and Forget

A Neruda masterpiece—and a bi-exponential curve—define the dynamics of the fast then slow fade of our greatest collective sorrows and joys | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 7 years ago

Innovation Day 2018 in London

The Rise of Digital Cities - A European Endeavour Learnings from Helsinki to Paris. Join EIT Digital and prominent European speakers from industrial visionaries to public sector leaders and researchers. | Continue reading


@https | 7 years ago

Two-micron fill tubes fill two needs

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) and General Atomics engineers have created an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) fuel capsule with a two-micron-diameter fill tube—and along the way, found a solution to a "Bay Bridge"-like dilemma that coul … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 7 years ago