VPS Showdown – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr

Hot on the heels of Linode offering up AMD EPYC processors, DigitalOcean has started to offer “premium” CPUs as part of their Shared CPU Basic plans. Unfortunately, this new offering comes with a slightly elevated price, clocking in at $6 per month instead of $5. This new product … | Continue reading


@joshtronic.com | 3 years ago

The Amazon App’s New Icons

By the way, Charlie Chaplin really got screwed. | Continue reading


@onefoottsunami.com | 3 years ago

Apple Confirms Comcent as First Community Media Media App

Apple has confirmed Comcent as the first community media app on the Apple App Store. This signifies a significant win for the tech in Ghana | Continue reading


@ghpage.com | 3 years ago

Fan Powered Royalties

Our portfolio company SoundCloud is introducing fan powered royalties to share revenues more equitably with musicians. The streaming music business pools its revenues and pays out based on a mathematical formula. There is no direct connection between a fan and artist. This graphi … | Continue reading


@avc.com | 3 years ago

Why cloud automation with Ansible is the future

Cloud provisioning is a critical element of the modern cloud computing model. We live in the age of microservices, where automation is not a nice-to-have anymore. It became an integral part of everyday operations. | Continue reading


@steampunk.si | 3 years ago

React Without Build Tools

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@blog.jim-nielsen.com | 3 years ago

Space hurricane observed for the first time

The first observations of a space hurricane have been revealed in Earth's upper atmosphere, confirming their existence and shedding new light on the relationship between planets and space. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

R/K Selection Theory

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@en.wikipedia.org | 3 years ago

What Is Mathematics?

An ideal reality. A formal game. The poetry of logical ideas. Or none of the above. | Continue reading


@newyorker.com | 3 years ago

Editor War

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@en.wikipedia.org | 3 years ago

Creating your own programming language

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@csail.mit.edu | 3 years ago

Sonifying the Coronavirus Pandemic

Finding a voice for difficult data | Continue reading


@mct-master.github.io | 3 years ago

Microsoft Power Fx: the low-code programming language for everyone

Today we’re introducing the newest member of the Microsoft Power Platform family: Microsoft Power Fx, an open source formula language for low code that’s based on Microsoft Excel. | Continue reading


@powerapps.microsoft.com | 3 years ago

7 Simple, Soothing Ideas for Bringing Japanese Minimalism Home

Fog Linen Work founder Yumiko Sekine's new book, 'Simplicity at Home,' is full of thoughtful solutions for decluttering, decor, DIY—and more. | Continue reading


@food52.com | 3 years ago

Snakeskin inspires new, friction-reducing material

A research team led by CU Boulder has designed a new kind of synthetic "skin" as slippery as the scales of a snake. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

U.S. needs to double its tree nursery production, according to new study

In order to realize the full potential of reforestation in the United States, the nation's tree nurseries need to increase seedling production by an additional 1.7 billion each year, a 2.4-fold increase over current nursery production. These numbers, taken from a new study, show … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Mountain 'tsunamis' have been taking place for 10,000 years in Chilean Patagonia

Catastrophic floods due to the emptying or rupture of glacial lakes in Chilean Patagonia have taken place cyclically since the last glacial maximum 10,000 years ago. Nevertheless, the magnitude of these mountain 'tsunamis' has declined over time, according to a paper published in … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Researchers publish roadmap to harness data science and artificial intelligence for electron microscopy

Since they came into use in 1938, electron microscopes have played a pivotal role in a host of scientific advances, including the discovery of new proteins and therapeutics and contributions made to the electronics revolution. But the field of electron microscopy must incorporate … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

SoilGrids: A system for global digital soil mapping

SoilGrids250m 2.0 - A system for digital soil mapping based on global compilation of soil profile data and environmental layers | Continue reading


@soilgrids.org | 3 years ago

The Large Hadron Collider's official tally: 59 new hadrons and counting

How many new particles has the LHC discovered? The most widely known discovery is of course that of the Higgs boson. Less well known is the fact that, over the past 10 years, the LHC experiments have also found more than 50 new particles called hadrons. Coincidentally, the number … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Taking a Break Doesn’t Always Mean Unplugging

Six healthy alternatives to doomscrolling. | Continue reading


@hbr.org | 3 years ago

Road to EU Climate Neutrality by 2050 [pdf]

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@roadtoclimateneutrality.eu | 3 years ago

The UK’s last lighthouse keepers can teach us about isolation

If there is anyone that knows what it’s like to spend long periods of time alone, it’s lighthouse keepers. Serena Coady gets advice from former custodians about how to weather the loneliness of the pandemic | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 3 years ago

Researchers realize quantum communications milestone using light

Few terms are more ubiquitous in the scientific arena these days than "quantum." | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Even satisfied employees don't always produce better audits

Accounting firms that overwork their employees are less likely to produce high-quality audits—even if the employees are satisfied with their careers, according to new research from the University at Buffalo School of Management. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Trans-Tasman study finds populations of common dolphin at risk

While consumers look out for the Dolphin Safe mark on seafood purchases, a major research stocktake of Australian-New Zealand waters gives new guidelines to managers of dolphin fisheries. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Real-time monitoring tool speeds up advanced nuclear reactor development

Across the nation, environmentally minded scientists and engineers are leading a new generation of nuclear reactor designs. They see nuclear power as a clean, carbon-free energy source along with hydropower, wind, and solar. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

New nation-state cyberattacks – Microsoft On the Issues

Today, we’re sharing information about a state-sponsored threat actor identified by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) that we are calling Hafnium. Hafnium operates from China, and this is the first time we’re discussing its activity. It is a highly skilled and soph … | Continue reading


@blogs.microsoft.com | 3 years ago

Letterlocking

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@letterlocking.org | 3 years ago

When Enough Is Too Much

Southern Politics and Government from the Heart of Tennessee | Continue reading


@moniker.substack.com | 3 years ago

Problem-Solving Framework from McKinsey

"A problem well put is half solved" - John Dewey | Continue reading


@productmindset.substack.com | 3 years ago

Expect more extreme short-duration thunderstorms caused by global warming

Climate experts have revealed that rising temperatures will intensify future rainfall extremes at a much greater rate than average rainfall, with largest increases to short thunderstorms. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Aging stars provide a new cosmological yardstick

Despite a century of measurements, astronomers can't agree on the rate at which the universe is expanding. A technique that relies on measuring distances to a specific type of aging star in other galaxies—called the J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch, or JAGB method—might be able t … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Teaching a machine how to identify imperfections in 2-D materials

Just as James Cameron's Terminator-800 was able to discriminate between "clothes, boots, and a motorcycle," machine-learning could identify different areas of interest on 2-D materials. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Reconstructing historical typhoons from a 142-year record

In recent years, strong TCs have been making landfalls in Japan, such as Typhoon Jebi in 2018, which severely hit the Kinki region, and Typhoon Hagibis in 2019, which severely hit eastern Japan. While Japan has suffered from a number of TC impacts throughout its history, meteorol … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Simulations to make insight into electrokinetic transport more reliable

Researcher Remco Hartkamp and Ph.D. student Max Döpke of the Process & Energy Department have taken an important step in making simulation results for electrokinetic transport more reliable by using molecular simulations. In electrokinetics, ions play an important role in the tra … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Scientists dig deep to reveal Earth's hidden layer

It's an idea worthy of a Jules Verne novel; a mysterious layer at the center of our planet. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

The U.S. Needs a Third Reconstruction — and Business Should Lead It

Four strategies to break down the systemic barriers facing Black Americans. | Continue reading


@hbr.org | 3 years ago

New approach to removing toxins from wastewater

The New York State Center for Clean Water Technology (CCWT) at Stony Brook University has made a series of critical discoveries regarding a new approach to protecting Long Island's drinking water, groundwater, and surface waters. Some of the discoveries involve the likely human c … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

New light shed on the early evolution of limb bone marrow

When and how bone marrow first originated in the limbs of early four-legged animals is disputed in evolutionary biology. With the help of powerful X-ray technology, an international research team, led by Uppsala University, has now discovered that this evolutionary adaptation mos … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Ice Age testing reveals challenges in climate model sensitivity

Key to the usefulness of climate models as tools for both scientists and policymakers is the models' ability to connect changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas levels to corresponding shifts in temperature. Equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is one such measure, representing the … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

How rhizosphere microorganisms of a leguminous plant respond to change

Researchers from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed the response mechanism of rhizosphere microorganisms of deep-rooted leguminous plant to water and nitrogen changes in desert ecosystem. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

With Education Secretary Miguel Cardona finally installed, the administration is intensifying its efforts to meet its 100 day-goal for in-person learning. | Continue reading


@politico.com | 3 years ago

Navigation and Deep-Links in SwiftUI

We separate the navigation logic from the view logic and implement deep-links in SwiftUI, using our new open-source library XUI. | Continue reading


@quickbirdstudios.com | 3 years ago

Capitol Police Bolster Security For March 4 Amid Concerns About QAnon Conspiracy Theory

The United States Capitol Police is bolstering security on Capitol Hill this week due to “concerning information and intelligence” related... | Continue reading


@talkingpointsmemo.com | 3 years ago

How to Scan NuGet Packages for Security Vulnerabilities

Open Source is everywhere. It is in many proprietary codebases and community projects. For organizations and individuals, the question today is not whether you are or are not using open-source code, but what open-source code you are using, and how much.If you are not aware of wha … | Continue reading


@devblogs.microsoft.com | 3 years ago

Google declared “persona non grata” as sponsor for AI ethics conference by ACM

Die ACM-Konferenz für Fairness, Rechenschaftspflicht und Transparenz sieht Google aufgrund von Rassismusvorwürfen nicht länger als passenden Sponsor für 2021. | Continue reading


@heise.de | 3 years ago

Instytut Książki przyjmuje zgłoszenia na Targi Książki w Bolonii i Londynie

Przyjmujemy zgłoszenia do udziału w polskim stoisku na targach Bologna Children's Book Fair (14-17 czerwca) oraz The London Book Fair (29 czerwca - 1 lipca). Zainteresowanych prosimy o wysłanie formularza w terminie do 17 marca - poinform | Continue reading


@wnp.pl | 3 years ago