Lab Testing Firm Pays Off Hacker to Prevent Data Leak

The breach at Canada's LifeLabs affected 15 million customers, but a small subset of 85,000 customers also had their lab test results exposed to the hackers. LifeLabs claims it secured the data by paying off the attackers. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 4 years ago

Understanding why songbirds choose their homes

New research by University of Alberta biologists uses a new approach to modelling the populations of six species of songbirds in Canada's boreal forest—and the results show that standard modeling methods may not be accurately capturing species distribution patterns. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Selenium Rectifier

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

Researchers directly measure 'Cheerios effect' forces for the first time

There's an interesting fluid dynamics phenomenon that happens every morning in millions of cereal bowls. When there are just a few bits of cereal left floating on top of the milk, they tend to cluster together in the middle or around the edges of the bowl, rather than dispersing … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

The Trailer for Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s Next Time-Bending Film

Christopher Nolan loves to play around with time. In most of his films -- Interstellar, Memento, Dunkirk, Inception -- time flow | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 4 years ago

Freya Allan Is In The Witcher…

…and her promo outfits have been super interesting! | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 4 years ago

The 10 Best Science Fiction Films of the Decade

Join us as we count down the 10 best science fiction films of the decade, a difficult task considering how many great contenders we had. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Easy prey: The largest bears in the world use small streams to fatten up on salmon

It's a familiar scene to anyone who's watched footage of brown bears catching sockeye salmon in Alaska: They're standing knee-deep in a rushing river, usually near a waterfall, and grabbing passing fish with their paws or jaws. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

5 Actionable Strategies for Boosting Employee Productivity

Highly engaged employees outperform their peers by 147% in earnings per share. Here are five actionable strategies for boosting employee productivity. | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 4 years ago

Mimicking enzymes, chemists produce large, useful carbon rings

Drawing inspiration from nature, University of Wisconsin-Madison chemists have discovered an efficient way to wrangle long, snaking molecules to form large rings—rings that form the backbone of many pharmaceuticals but are difficult to produce in the lab. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Gene drives work faster than non-drive approaches to control problem insects

When controlling mosquitoes that spread malaria, gene drives, which force genetic changes to proliferate in a population, are faster and more efficient than simply releasing mosquitoes that are immune to the parasite, according to a new study published December 19th in PLOS Genet … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Novel 3-D microscopy technique reveals new phenomena in living cells

Combining image analysis with a three-dimensional microscopy technique allows researchers to quantify new or little-understood cell biology phenomena, according to a new study publishing December 19 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Mathieu Frechin of the Swiss company N … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Mathematical models provide a snapshot of the human gut microbial community

Microbial communities can be found everywhere—from lakes to the soil on the ground, they are omnipresent yet invisible to the naked eye. Within those environments there exist dynamic communities which fluctuate in response to environmental changes. One such example is the human g … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

The meaning of emotion: Cultural and biological evolution impact how humans feel feelings

Words for emotions like "anger" and "fear" vary in meaning across language families. Researchers have now compared colexifications of emotion words—cases where one word signifies multiple semantically related concepts. By analyzing such words in 2,474 spoken languages, they found … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Mechanical force as a new way of starting chemical reactions

Researchers have shown mechanical force can start chemical reactions, making them cheaper, more broadly applicable, and more environmentally friendly than conventional methods. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Improving efficiency, effectiveness of security X-ray technology

The smuggling of contraband, such as explosives and drugs, is a major threat in airport security. These risks have increased in modern times with the uptick in parcel delivery, but security inspection methods have not seen any significant improvements. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Elixir Wizards S3E5 Chris Keathley on Performance and Functional Programming

Our guest on the show today is blogger, software cowboy, and podcast host Chris Keathley. Chris is a senior engineer at Bleacher Report, co-host of Elixir Outlaws, and writer of an assemblage of open-source software. He joins us today to speak about his new projects, his journey … | Continue reading


@podcast.smartlogic.io | 4 years ago

Modular C: How to Write Reusable and Maintainable Code Using the C Language [pdf]

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@metamodular.com | 4 years ago

Massive 27-Disc ‘Star Wars’ Box Set of the Entire Skywalker Saga is Coming in 2020

A leaked Best Buy listing rom Canada seems to indicate that a Star Wars Skywalker saga Blu-ray box set is slated for release in spring 2020. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Beginning Java Programmer

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@mail.openjdk.java.net | 4 years ago

A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Information of over 3k Ring Users

“This gives a potential attacker access to view cameras in somebody’s home, that’s a real serious potential invasion of privacy right there.” | Continue reading


@buzzfeednews.com | 4 years ago

Is simulated data the great equalizer in the AI race?

The AI Race | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

If one conjoined twin commits a crime, how would he or she be prosecuted?

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@quora.com | 4 years ago

Airbus' Pilotless Air Taxi Completes Flight Testing at Pendleton Airport

Airbus has wrapped up flight testing of a pilotless air taxi in Eastern Oregon skies and is moving on. The global aerospace company, along with its rival Boeing and many others, is striving to make flying cars an option for your urban commute someday. | Continue reading


@opb.org | 4 years ago

Twitter Rolling Out Redesigned iPad Interface

Chance Miller, writing for 9to5Mac: Twitter is rolling out an update to the official Twitter for iPad app that brings a much-needed interface redesign. With today’s update, Twitter for iPad now better takes advantage of the added screen real estate available on the iPad. As first … | Continue reading


@macstories.net | 4 years ago

University Drops 'Freedom of Thought' from Charter

Changes to the charter of one of China's top universities — dropping the phrase "freedom of thought" and adding a pledge to follow the Communist Part | Continue reading


@japantimes.co.jp | 4 years ago

Justin Kan: The 3 Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When Building a Company

Learn from these issues and you may be in better shape at your own startup | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 4 years ago

I survived a mass shooting. Here's my advice to other journalists. - Poynter

It wasn’t until a gunman opened fire in my newsroom on June 28, 2018, that my crash course in trauma began. | Continue reading


@poynter.org | 4 years ago

Measuring Progress in Fusion Energy: The Triple Product

Fusion Energy Database | Continue reading


@fusionenergydb.com | 4 years ago

A CLI to start local Cloud image on libvirt

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@virt-lightning.org | 4 years ago

Man With Social Anxiety Tries to Overcome His Past to Connect With Others in the Claymation Short ‘Facing It’

In the brilliantly edited mixed-media claymation short "Facing It" by Sam Gainsborough, a young man named Shaun sits alone at a table waiting for his | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

First ‘Fast and Furious 9’ Trailer Arrives in January, Accompanied by a Live Concert in Miami

The first Fast and Furious 9 trailer will be launched with plenty of flair thanks to a live concert event happening in January next year. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

RethinkDB 2.4.0 Is Out

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@rethinkdb.com | 4 years ago

Finding your first remote job

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@joshwcomeau.com | 4 years ago

To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware

In Burlingame, California, a small city about 15 miles north of Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters, a monument to the social media giant’s future ambitions is taking shape. Construction is underway on a 770,000-square-foot new campus, with the capacity for about 4,000 employe … | Continue reading


@theinformation.com | 4 years ago

To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware

In Burlingame, California, a small city about 15 miles north of Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters, a monument to the social media giant’s future ambitions is taking shape. Construction is underway on a 770,000-square-foot new campus, with the capacity for about 4,000 employe … | Continue reading


@theinformation.com | 4 years ago

Cuomo leads lurid segment on crime!

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@dailyhowler.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Day 1064: Counterpunch.

Counterpunch. | Continue reading


@whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com | 4 years ago

✚ Visualization Tools, Data, and Resources Roundup – December 2019 Roundup (The Process #69)

Every month I collect links to new tools, datasets, and visualization resources. Here’s the good stuff for December 2019 and the last roundup for the decade. | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 years ago

Deal on wheels

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


@evgrieve.com | 4 years ago

Photos inside the Elizabeth Warren Campaign HQ

On the cusp of the next exciting debate among the Democrats, rare images of the New England headquarters of the Elizabeth Warren campaign: (Actually from the deCordova art museum.) | Continue reading


@philip.greenspun.com | 4 years ago

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@choice.npr.org | 4 years ago

TiVo to merge with Xperi ↦

TiVo has scrapped plans to split itself into two separate companies, and instead announced a $3 billion merger with Xperi, a company that sells audio, imaging and computing technology products. The… | Continue reading


@variety.com | 4 years ago

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@manton.org | 4 years ago

Goldman Sachs to Extend $1.75B Credit Line to WeWork

For WeWork, a tumultuous 2019 ends with a new lifeline from Goldman Sachs. | Continue reading


@news.crunchbase.com | 4 years ago

How to Start a Node.js Project

Sometimes I write blog posts to remind myself what I’ve learned and sometimes I write them because someone else shares something and I want to remember that better. This post is one of the latter. | Continue reading


@philna.sh | 4 years ago

Building Blocks of an Unstoppable Web Scraping Infrastructure

What are the essential elements of web scraping and how to develop a healthy web data pipeline? You'll find your answers in this blog post. | Continue reading


@blog.scrapinghub.com | 4 years ago

You are already a distributed team

Why we think that you are already a distributed team. We'll share with you a few ways to improve your team communication | Continue reading


@standups.io | 4 years ago