Researchers observe brain-like behavior in nanoscale device – UCLA

UCLA scientists James Gimzewski and Adam Stieg are part of a research team that has taken a major stride toward creating thinking machines. | Continue reading


@newsroom.ucla.edu | 4 years ago

Citrus Taxonomy

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

USE CUPS

Only you can prevent cup abuse. created by Joe Pelling, Brendan O'Hare and Cory Snearowski additional art by Mikey Burey produced by Alex Plapinger created… | Continue reading


@vimeo.com | 4 years ago

Science now says your phone's yellow tinted 'night mode' is worse for your sleep

In what should come as a surprise to no one, it turns out just making your smartphone's screen kind of yellow won't magically stop it from keeping you | Continue reading


@androidpolice.com | 4 years ago

Copyright Guide for Scientific Software

Today, science involves software. And although many scientists understand that their work stands on the shoulders of others, they may not know how copyright affects their rights to use others' software, or how they can publish their software tools so others can use or cite it. Th … | Continue reading


@zenodo.org | 4 years ago

The Rising Cost of Not Living

Funeral charges have risen for the same reason that prices have always risen: a disconnect between demand and supply. For a combination of reasons—cost, changing mores, and environmental concerns—more consumers now want their remains and those of their relatives to be burned rath … | Continue reading


@nybooks.com | 4 years ago

Reflections on Rusting Trust

The Rust compiler is written in Rust. This is overall a pretty common practice in compilerdevelopment. This usually means that the process of building the compiler involves downloading a(typically … | Continue reading


@manishearth.github.io | 4 years ago

Ungeniused #94: Two Talented Squirrels

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@512pixels.net | 4 years ago

Liftoff #114: A Pentagon of Storms

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@512pixels.net | 4 years ago

Irc.com: What we’re doing, what’s upcoming, and open source

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@irc.com | 4 years ago

How VPN Can Aid Blockchain to Improve Online Privacy

Blockchain is the need of hour but without a VPN, you can be exposed to different online threats. Secure your Blockchain transactions through a VPN. | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 4 years ago

So You’ve Read Sloane’s Story — Here Are 9 Ways You Can Help

Bark's Special Projects Team — led by Sloane Ryan — went undercover to combat online child predators, and we recently published our findings. Since then, hundreds of people have reached out asking how they can get involved. Here are some ways that you can help make a difference. | Continue reading


@bark.us | 4 years ago

Renee Zellweger Dresses Way, Way Down

Hmm. | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 4 years ago

‘Bombshell’ Director Jay Roach on Striving For Authenticity and Whether He’ll Ever Return to ‘Austin Powers’ [Interview]

In our Jay Roach interview, the director of Bombshell talks about crafting his potential awards contender and if he'll ever return to comedy. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Amazon Announces Over 2 Dozen New Resource Types for AWS CloudFormation

Amazon just announced more than two dozen new and updated resource types for AWS CloudFormation. CloudFormation templates can now be used to configure and provision a number of AWS products including CodePipeline, API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Elasticsearch Service, AWS IAM and more. | Continue reading


@programmableweb.com | 4 years ago

Ruby 2.7-rc1 release with GC compaction

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@ruby-lang.org | 4 years ago

Reflections on Trusting Trust: Ken Thompson [pdf]

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@cs.cmu.edu | 4 years ago

DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

Andreas Andreakis, Ioannis Papapanagiotou | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Improving Out-of-Distribution Detection in Machine Learning Models

Posted by Jie Ren, Research Scientist, Google Research and Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Research Scientist, DeepMind Successful deployment o... | Continue reading


@ai.googleblog.com | 4 years ago

Ten Predictions for the 2020s

Ten predictions for the next ten years. 1-5 come out today, come back for 6-10 next week. #1: Enterprise software in the 2020s will replay Softbank’s Capital-as-a-Moat disaster of the late 2010s.  … | Continue reading


@alexdanco.com | 4 years ago

Threats to Free Speech at University, and How to Deal with Them

Part 1 of this essay outlined six major threats to free speech at university, focusing on institutions in the UK and US: first, speech codes, speech guidelines and free speech zones; second, no-pla… | Continue reading


@areomagazine.com | 4 years ago

Rescuers free entangled humpback whale off California coast

A rescue team helped free a young humpback whale that was tangled in fishing gear south of San Francisco days after a fisherman first spotted it, a conservation group said Tuesday. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Best Practice for Creating Indexes on MySQL Tables

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of ... | Continue reading


@highscalability.com | 4 years ago

Google's Dangerous Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy

Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… Today I’m going to write about Google’s exceptionally dangerous decision yesterday to de facto cut off Turkey’s access to Android phones. | Continue reading


@mattstoller.substack.com | 4 years ago

A Guide to the Jobsearch [pdf]

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@docs.google.com | 4 years ago

Scientists discover how proteins form crystals that tile a microbe's shell

Many microbes wear beautifully patterned crystalline shells, which protect them from a harsh world and can even help them reel in food. Studies at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have revealed this food-reeling process and s … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

The Long, Sad History of Excalibur Almaz

It’s July 2010, and one of the world’s first “space lawyers” is accepting the prestigious “Pioneer of NewSpace Award” from the Space Frontier Foundation, an advocacy group dedicated to space exploration and settlement. Art Dula isn’t just a pioneer in space law — he’s a bona fide … | Continue reading


@houstonpress.com | 4 years ago

Skin cancer mystery revealed in yin and yang protein

It starts off small, just a skin blemish. The most common moles stay just that way—harmless clusters of skin cells called melanocytes, which give us pigment. In rare cases, what begins as a mole can turn into melanoma, the most serious type of human skin cancer because it can spr … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

The Happy Broadcast

For the past couple of years, Mauro Gatti has been publishing The Happy Broadcast, his antidote to negative news and "the vit | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 4 years ago

Clicker Training

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

AI in Health Care: A Report from the National Academy of Medicine

This Viewpoint summarizes the 2019 AI in Healthcare report from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), which reviews best practices for AI development, adoption, and maintenance and urges prioritization of equity, inclusion, and human rights in AI health system implementation. | Continue reading


@jamanetwork.com | 4 years ago

High-def mapping of moisture in the soil

Soil moisture is easy to see when your favorite Little Leaguer slides into second base the day after a big summer storm. The mud splattered on that little hustler's uniform tells the story. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

15M LifeLabs customers lost personal health numbers, labs test results and more

Hackers may have obtained the personal data of 15 million LifeLabs clients after a systems breach, and this includes addresses, passwords, birthdays, health card numbers and, in some cases, lab results. | Continue reading


@ctvnews.ca | 4 years ago

Did a conspiracy destroy LA’s streetcar system?

It's long been suggested the iconic Red Cars fell victim to a conspiracy by automakers. | Continue reading


@la.curbed.com | 4 years ago

iFixit Shares 2019 Mac Pro Teardown: 'A Masterclass in Repairability'

iFixit has shared its full teardown of the new Mac Pro, calling it "beautiful, amazingly well put together, and a masterclass in... | Continue reading


@macrumors.com | 4 years ago

2020 Guide to Cryptocurrency Taxes

The IRS has released comprehensive new bitcoin & cryptocurrency tax guidance for 2020. This crypto tax guide walks you through everything you need to know. | Continue reading


@cointracker.io | 4 years ago

Super Climber Emily Harrington’s Most Doting Climbing Partner Is Her Dad

Sometimes father/daughter relationships involve pushing each other up 19,000-foot volcanoes. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 4 years ago

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


@scripting.com | 4 years ago

End to End Testing with Selenium in Docker

Learn how to quickly setup automated tests for your app using Selenium and Docker. Works for complex systems with backend and frontend. Even with components in different repositories. | Continue reading


@fire.ci | 4 years ago

Gravity Anomaly

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

DNC Recommendations for Combating Disinformation: Social Media Policy Analysis

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@democrats.org | 4 years ago

Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in Insider Trading Ring

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@sec.gov | 4 years ago

‘Doctor Who’ Season 12 Clip: Time Can Be Rewritten, But Not Human DNA

BBC has released a new Doctor Who season 12 clip, showing the Doctor and her fam getting invited to look at a comatose patient by Stephen Fry. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

DoH Privacy Enhancement: Do Not Set the User-Agent Header for DoH Requests

RESOLVED (valentin.gosu) in Core - Networking: DNS. Last updated 2019-12-06. | Continue reading


@bugzilla.mozilla.org | 4 years ago

Internet Explorer is no longer supported by Blackboard

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@help.blackboard.com | 4 years ago

This || this: Whiteboard Interviews

Ed note: This is a part of series where an author plays both sides of an issue, one of which is obviously terrible. Can you guess which is which? | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 4 years ago

PewDiePie may quit YouTube, and what it means for current policies

The gamer behind YouTube’s most-watched channel, PewDiePie (real name Felix Kjellberg), announced in his latest Pew News video, posted Saturday, that he is planning to take a break from the p… | Continue reading


@variety.com | 4 years ago

Argument Mapping (2015)

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@charlesrathkopf.net | 4 years ago