Genetic variation gives mussels a chance to adapt to climate change

Existing genetic variation in natural populations of Mediterranean mussels allows them to adapt to declining pH levels in seawater caused by carbon emissions. A new study by biologists from the University of Chicago shows that mussels raised in a low pH experimental environment g … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Firefox Replay in Action (Video and Developer Survey)

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@qsurvey.mozilla.com | 4 years ago

The AA will now use what3words to find your breakdown

The AA, perhaps the UK's most recognisable automotive breakdown service, has announced that it's going to start using the innovative location technology | Continue reading


@pocket-lint.com | 4 years ago

Spinoza’s ‘Ethics’: what do you mean by ‘God’?

Today, the philosophical treatise known as the Ethics (1677) by Baruch Spinoza is widely considered a masterwork of philosophy. But at the time of its publication, Spinoza's radical vision of God as synonymous with nature was enough for the Portuguese-Jewish congregation of Amste … | Continue reading


@aeon.co | 4 years ago

Personality is not only about who but also where you are

Personality traits such as patience and risk-aversion are not innate but a product of the type of society you’re born into | Continue reading


@aeon.co | 4 years ago

The World’s Oldest Forest Has 385M-Year-Old Tree Roots

A trove of arboreal fossils pushes back the origin of modern forests and sophisticated tree roots | Continue reading


@smithsonianmag.com | 4 years ago

Long names are long (2016)

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@journal.stuffwithstuff.com | 4 years ago

Irritating misconceptions about computer programmers

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@quora.com | 4 years ago

User Research Without Interviews

A guide on non-traditional approaches to user research. We recommend trying those methods in addition to customer development interviews. | Continue reading


@birdeatsbug.com | 4 years ago

Course on Crafting 404 Pages

A 404 page should do more than apologize for poor navigation on behalf of your website. Here’s why making an effort with a 404 page could… | Continue reading


@medium.muz.li | 4 years ago

What Bloomberg Misses About Citadel Securities

"You can have all the transfer orders that you want, but you have to ask me nicely." - Col. Nathan R. Jessup, "A Few Good Men"On December 11, 2019, Bloomberg News editor Tom Maloney publishes an unusually illuminating article on Citadel Securities, "Ken Griffin Has Another Money … | Continue reading


@alphacution.com | 4 years ago

iPhone tracks where you go

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@rctopnews.net | 4 years ago

IBM Changes the Energy Storage Game with Cobalt-Free Battery

Cobalt is emerging as an energy storage villain, but IBM hits back with a next-gen, cobalt-free battery for electric vehicles and stationary uses, too. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 4 years ago

Deep Double Decent

We show that a variety of modern deep learning tasks exhibit a"double-descent" phenomenon where, as we increase model size, performance firstgets worse and then gets better. Moreover, we show... | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 4 years ago

AMD Is Selling Like Hotcakes

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@seekingalpha.com | 4 years ago

The use of the word ‘robust' to describe software in UK law

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@ials.blogs.sas.ac.uk | 4 years ago

Dithering in Games – Mini Series

This an opening post of mini blog post series about various uses of dithering for quantization and sampling in video games. It is something most of us use intuitively in every day work, so wanted t… | Continue reading


@bartwronski.com | 4 years ago

Dithering in Games, Part 1: Simple Quantization (2016)

Introduction First part of this mini-series will focus on more theoretical side of dithering -some history and applying it for 1D signals and to quantization. I will try to do some frequency analys… | Continue reading


@bartwronski.com | 4 years ago

New desalination method could get industry out of a salty pickle

"Hypersaline brine" is industrial waste-water with salt levels that exceed even that of seawater. It's a big, expensive, destructive problem which a team of engineers at Columbia University in New York City hope to solve with their solvent-based method of desalination. | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 4 years ago

Bienville House, New Orleans / Nathan Fell Architecture

Since the Bienville House has be completed, we have heard nothing but positive feedback from neighbors and other New Orleans denizens ... | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 4 years ago

On Linux's Random Number Generation

I have been asked about the usefulness of security monitoring of entropy levels in the Linux kernel. This calls for some explanation of how random generation works in Linux systems. So, randomness … | Continue reading


@research.nccgroup.com | 4 years ago

Improving Customer Support with Our Google Operations Centers

We’re expanding the Google Operations Center. By the end of 2020, we will have created more than 4,800 Google customer support jobs. | Continue reading


@blog.google | 4 years ago

Energy efficiency

REPLICATE implements energy efficiency in order to save energy consumption proceeding to the retrofitting of building and the development of District Heating. San Sebastian Energy Efficiency  … | Continue reading


@replicate-project.eu | 4 years ago

FutureBook: Trends of the Upcoming 202X

Read and share your opinion — what will be trending in the upcoming decade. | Continue reading


@202x.local.kitchen | 4 years ago

Climate activists final victory in Dutch court ruling

Climate activists won a final victory Friday in their long-running battle through Dutch courts to force the government to cut greenhouse gas emissions. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Ethiopia celebrates launch of first satellite

Ethiopia launched its first satellite on Friday, a landmark achievement for the country's space programme that caps a banner year for the African space industry. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Embedded Software and the Pursuit of Perfection

“Perfection is the enemy of good” | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space

The remote sensing satellite is to be used collect data for agricultural, climate, mining and environmental observations but could also be used for citizen surveillance | Continue reading


@qz.com | 4 years ago

Robinhood Fined by Finra After Broker Violations

Provider of commission-free trading agrees to appointment of independent consultant to review execution systems and procedures. | Continue reading


@thestreet.com | 4 years ago

How SwiftUI Replaced Our Open Source Framework

iOS graphics library goes almost useless the minute Apple releases their SwiftUI. | Continue reading


@exyte.com | 4 years ago

2019 Year in Review: PureOS

Purism — Private and Secure Hardware, Software, and Services | Continue reading


@puri.sm | 4 years ago

Makefiles in 2019 — Why They Still Matter

Make was created in 1976 by Stuart Feldman at Bell Labs to help build C programs. But how can this 40+ year old piece of software help us develop and maintain our ever-growing amount of cloud-based microservices? | Continue reading


@tech.trivago.com | 4 years ago

FortyQ: Answering any question in 42 minutes flat

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@ankuj3.wixsite.com | 4 years ago

Yet Another Librem 5 and PinePhone Comparison

Let's start off with mentioning that both these new phones are great steps forward for Linux. While they will probably not beat Android and iOS in popularity, they will at least give Linux power users a device that can be called a Linux phone instead of the usual "technically it' … | Continue reading


@tuxphones.com | 4 years ago

Del.icio.us

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@web.archive.org | 4 years ago

After drought, floods compound Somalia's year of climate misery

As Somalia withered from drought early this year, and her goats dropped dead from thirst, Maka Abdi Ali begged for rain. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Huawei held talks with Europe's largest telecoms operator over 5G network deal

Deutsche Telekom, Europe's largest telecoms operator, was in advanced talks to retain Huawei as its main supplier of radio equipment for new mobile networks, Reuters reported Friday citing sources familiar with the matter. | Continue reading


@cntechpost.com | 4 years ago

Making your case

Conventional wisdom: Find a large group of people. Explain why you’re better. Prove that you are the right answer. Done.   How it actually works: Earn attention from precisely the right … | Continue reading


@seths.blog | 4 years ago

Everyone’s Getting a Candle for Christmas This Year

  Scrambling for the perfect, but last-minute holiday gift for one, or all, of your… | Continue reading


@alltheprettybirds.com | 4 years ago

In Brazil's pampas, a Triassic Park once flourished

Millions of years before the arrival of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, another fearsome dinosaur—the Gnathovorax—roamed what is now southern Brazil, ripping apart its prey with sharp teeth. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Gallery moving into doomed 4th Street restaurant space

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

Tenants call out Madison Realty Capital: Stop warehousing rent-regulated apartments

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

FILE – Electronic Language International Festival

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@digitalmeetsculture.net | 4 years ago

These were the top reads from East Village libraries in 2019

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

Google Cloud Model Cards

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@modelcards.withgoogle.com | 4 years ago

PayRequest launches payment links for businesses

PayRequest is a new fintech startup founded in 2019 which is a payment platform where you can create payment links for your customers and… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Going from Java to Kotlin

We used to have a pure Java application. Then we decided to add some Kotlin code to it, just to try it out. Now there is almost no Java code left. How did that come about? Read on! | Continue reading


@kotlin.christmas | 4 years ago

Vegan Marshmallows

A fluffy vegan marshmallow made without gelatine or egg whites. They toast and melt and are just as light! Using carageenan & locust bean gum, not agar, for stabilisation. | Continue reading


@topwithcinnamon.com | 4 years ago