How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware

Reverting to traditional handicrafts is one way to sabotage the throwaway society. In this article, we discuss another possibility: the design of modular consumer products, whose parts and components could be re-used for the design of other products. Initiatives like OpenStructur … | Continue reading


@lowtechmagazine.com | 8 years ago

Improve Lighthouse scores with next-gen image optimization

What is Google Lighthouse and why should you care? If you live and breathe web performance, chances are you’ve already heard about the wizardry that is "Google Lighthouse". If not, by the end of this article you’ll understand why it’s an absolutely necessary tool for | Continue reading


@fly.io | 8 years ago

What Does Your Smartphone Know About You?

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@kaggle.com | 8 years ago

Delivering a Serverless API in 10 minutes using Workers

In preparation for Chrome’s Not Secure flag, which will update the indicator to show Not Secure when a site is not accessed over https, we wanted people to be able to test whether their site would pass. | Continue reading


@blog.cloudflare.com | 8 years ago

Twitter’s new Ad Transparency Center shows all ads shown in past 7 days

As part of its initiative to be more transparent, Twitter will show billing information, ad spend and targeting data for US political ads. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 8 years ago

Samples for Artistic Purposes May Justify an Interference with Copyrights (2016)

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@bundesverfassungsgericht.de | 8 years ago

‘OK Google, give everybody in America a free speaker’

Alphabet Inc. should give every household in America a free Google Home Mini smart speaker, a Morgan Stanley analyst suggested Thursday. | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 8 years ago

Ontology is Overrated (2005)

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@shirky.com | 8 years ago

Paul George is now officially one of NBA free agency's hottest commodities. | Continue reading


@yahoo.com | 8 years ago

Seat 29E

Mid-flight on December 21st, 2004, a Continental Airlines passenger — "disgusted" with the location of his seat due to its proximity to the... | Continue reading


@lettersofnote.com | 8 years ago

New GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers Change the Balance of Power on the TOP500

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@top500.org | 8 years ago

0Mind

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@0mind.net | 8 years ago

Introducing fuget.org

Have you ever wondered what exactly is in a nuget to see if it’s right for you? You read the description, you like the name, but, if you’re like me, you probably ended up in GitHub reading the source... | Continue reading


@praeclarum.org | 8 years ago

Report: Stores still critical in consumer purchase journey, above TV and social

Study from Blis found that in-store browsing was the number one way consumers discovered new products. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 8 years ago

Signs Someone in the Office Is Out to Get You

The office work week is hard. But when someone at work is out to get you, every day is even more difficult. Is someone out to get you? Or are you just being paranoid? Is there any difference? Here are 15 signs to help you figure it out. | Continue reading


@thecooperreview.com | 8 years ago

New Photon Release of Eclipse IDE Ships with Full Rust Support

The Eclipse Foundation - home to a global community, the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE and over 350 open source projects, including runtimes, tools and frameworks. | Continue reading


@eclipse.org | 8 years ago

Python 3.7.0 is now available

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@mail-archive.com | 8 years ago

Infinity Is a Beautiful Concept – And It’s Ruining Physics [2015]

The idea of infinity underlies all of modern physics, but it makes equations meaningless and isn't necessary for physics to work. | Continue reading


@blogs.discovermagazine.com | 8 years ago

Brave advances browser privacy with Tor-powered tabs

Onion routing is the way to go. It's all about the layers of encryption. | Continue reading


@cnet.com | 8 years ago

Con artists are fleecing Uber drivers

And the ride-hailing company knows all about it. | Continue reading


@cnet.com | 8 years ago

Now ERC20 Tokens can be mined, looking for Angels and seeds

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@tokenminer.io | 8 years ago

HashiCorp Terraform 0.12 Preview

Terraform 0.12 focuses on major Terraform language improvements and will be released later this summer. We are communicating about Terraform 0.12 prior to release to highlight the … | Continue reading


@hashicorp.com | 8 years ago

Choosing Your Deep Learning Infrastructure: The Cloud vs. On-Prem Debate

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@determined.ai | 8 years ago

When It’s Good to Be Antisocial

It turns out that, even in a highly coordinated hive, antisocial individuals persist.“Wanderer above the sea of fog,” by Caspar… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 8 years ago

Scaling Pandas to the Billions with Ibis and MapD

With the newly released MapD backend for Ibis, Python users can now access the power of MapD as easily as if it were a local pandas dataframe | Continue reading


@mapd.com | 8 years ago

MongoDB Charts – Visualizations for MongoDB Data

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@mongodb.com | 8 years ago

Exactis data leak contained detailed information on 230M consumers

A Florida-based company that few have heard of may have exposed the personal data of nearly every American adult, according to a new report. | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 8 years ago

Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation

Posted Alex Irpan, Software Engineer, Google Brain Team and Peter Pastor, Senior Roboticist, X How can robots acquire skills that generali... | Continue reading


@ai.googleblog.com | 8 years ago

Looking through walls with a small transmitter

This paper demonstrates accurate human pose estimation through walls and occlusions. We leverage the fact that wireless signals in the WiFi frequencies traverse walls and reflect off the human body. | Continue reading


@rev.vu | 8 years ago

Build a Google Home App with PubNub Functions

Get started building your own voice-activated home automation app with emotional intelligence using PubNub Functions, Dialogflow, and Amazon Comprehend. | Continue reading


@pubnub.com | 8 years ago

Kontena Pharos 1.2 released with CentOS/RHEL7 and cri-o support

The simple, solid and certified Kubernetes Distribution now with support for Red Hat based operating systems (CentOS 7 & RHEL 7). | Continue reading


@blog.kontena.io | 8 years ago

Migrating to python 3

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@chairnerd.seatgeek.com | 8 years ago

Samsung Messages bug causing app to secretly send out photos from gallery

A new bug found within the Samsung Messages app is causing the service to secretly send out photos from within the Gallery app to random contacts without leaving any log of the messages... | Continue reading


@phonearena.com | 8 years ago

Switch pirates don’t want you to pirate their piracy-enabling firmware

But anti-piracy hackers are hacking the piracy hack for themselves. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 8 years ago

JavaScript is for Girls

Decades ago, men kicked women out of the programming profession. Now that women are fighting their way back in, men are finding new ways to protect their status. | Continue reading


@logicmag.io | 8 years ago

Seven newsrooms, 4 countries, thousands of kids: ProPublica launches a project to find immigrant children

"This is the beginning of the reporting on this for our newsroom. We are being transparent about what we know and what we don't know and what we need help with." | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 8 years ago

How Twitter came out of it's difficult times in 2015/2016

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@mobile.twitter.com | 8 years ago

Erlang online resources

Erlang online resources | Continue reading


@gist.github.com | 8 years ago

The Birth Torts: Damages for Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Life (2005)

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@austlii.edu.au | 8 years ago

JVM Profiler: An Tool for Tracing Distributed JVM Applications at Scale

Uber open sourced JVM Profiler, our distributed profiler, to enable others to seamlessly collect JVM performance and resource usage metrics. | Continue reading


@eng.uber.com | 8 years ago

Neat Experiment Suggests Crows Are Even Better Toolmakers Than We Thought

New research shows that crows can recreate tools from memory, a capacity previously thought impossible for birds. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 8 years ago

Amazon Logistics

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@logistics.amazon.com | 8 years ago

North American Vertical Datum of 1988

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@en.wikipedia.org | 8 years ago

Jill Abramson, Ex-New York Times Editor: The 'Narcissistic' NYT Is Making 'Horrible Mistakes,' Needs a 'Course Correction'

After her ‘pissed off’ tweet, the former editor slams the newspaper staff’s ‘narcissism,’ its ‘crucifying’ Ali Watkins profile, and ‘missing’ the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 8 years ago

Switzerland in Infographics (by the Government)

Swiss history and society at a glance: graphics on a wide range of Switzerland-related topics. | Continue reading


@eda.admin.ch | 8 years ago

ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens When You Mock Attackers

For the past two days, secure email provider ProtonMail has been fighting off DDoS attacks that have visibly affected the company's services, causing short but frequent outages at regular intervals. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 8 years ago

Former Equifax Manager Charged with Insider Trading

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@sec.gov | 8 years ago

A Closer Look at the Inter-Planetary File System

The underlying technology of IPFS | Continue reading


@medium.com | 8 years ago