Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Non-Profit, Messaging, and Recognition. Highlights include an API that provides electoral vote data and an API from Sinch that aggregates messaging services. Here's a rundown of the latest additio … | Continue reading
The Ip Man series continues with the prequel Ip Man: Kung Fu Master. | Continue reading
Belgium has detected an outbreak of bird flu, leading authorities to order all poultry farmers and individual bird owners to keep the animals confined, the country's food safety agency AFSCA said Saturday. | Continue reading
Solar energy harvested in space offers the potential for an unlimited and constant zero carbon power source | Continue reading
Egyptian antiquities officials on Saturday announced the discovery of at least 100 ancient coffins, some with mummies inside, and around 40 gilded statues in a vast Pharaonic necropolis south of Cairo. | Continue reading
The goal of software delivery is to minimise the lead time to business impact. Everything else is detail. The longest journey When I was young our summer holidays usually involved a drive to somewh… | Continue reading
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Wild Rice Stuffed Acorn Squash makes a great vegetarian (or vegan) Thanksgiving main dish, or a delicious dinner for any chilly fall evening! | Continue reading
SpaceX delayed its second astronaut flight by a day because of high wind and weather conditions that could jeopardize the recovery and recycling of the rocket booster, pushing the launch to Sunday. | Continue reading
Evidence is emerging that the North Korean regime is training dolphins for military purposes, according to new satellite imagery. While the U.S. Navy pioneered the training of dolphins and other marine mammals for naval purposes and has a program based in San Diego, it’s not a ca … | Continue reading
The rapid advancement of technology is both a threat and an opportunity for logistics workers. Robotics, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence could reduce the number of available jobs in certain categories. For example, one report estimated that 294,000 US trucking job … | Continue reading
Back in the late 1970s, the most popular memory chip was Mostek's MK4116, holding a whopping (for the time) 16 kilobits. It provided stor... | Continue reading
From a mole inside Penn State… Email to students from a dean: In response to reports of large gathering of students in off-campus apartment complexes in State College during this past weekend… | Continue reading
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Corey Robin in The New Yorker: he professor and the politician are a dyad of perpetual myth. In one myth, they are locked in conflict, sparring over the claims of reason and the imperative of power. Think Socrates and Athens, or Noam Chomsky and the American state. In another myt … | Continue reading
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The value of informational privacy has long ceased to be seen merely in the protection or exercise of individual autonomy. Already in the early 1980s, the German Federal Court pointed out that the… | Continue reading
Herds of microservices, flocks of people, and those that take care of them I’ve been in big enterprises, as a day job, for almost 6 years now. I’ve also been working on, and growing, a large scale microservice architecture (about 150 microservices) for about 18 months. In one way … | Continue reading
I recently learned that Pink Floyd played a gig in my home town, a little under a year before I was born (on 12th March 1968): It’s a strange thought. I am 52 years old. Pink Floyd are even o… | Continue reading
OpenCV is an incredible computer vision library, and the Raspberry Pi is an awesome piece of hardware. You can bring them together for your projects, and here's how. | Continue reading
On August 11, MicroStrategy announced that it had adopted Bitcoin as Primary Treasury Reserve and purchased $250 million of Bitcoin to… | Continue reading
Jon Stewart in Aeon: What is the human being? Traditionally, it was thought that human nature was something fixed, given either by nature or by God, once and for all. Humans occupy a unique place in creation by virtue of a specific combination of faculties that they alone possess … | Continue reading
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This post is clearing up confusions around mocking in Elixir. If you were ever confused about mocks and stubs in Elixir, I made it 100% clear for you. | Continue reading
Ever since reading Brooks-Liscow on the growth in American road construction costs since the 1960s, I’ve been interested in the surplus extraction theory of costs. The authors call their main… | Continue reading
Fellow Indie Hacker Steph Smith published earlier this year her book Standing Out in 2020: Doing Content Right, and let me tell you, it's just an incred... | Continue reading
Exclusive: Apple’s hardware, software and marketing chiefs explain how the company’s new processors came to exist | Continue reading
A few months ago, I shared May was our first month of positive cash flow in 8 years at Sketchfab. I’m happy to share an even more… | Continue reading
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Building a Middle Class... Algorithmically? | Continue reading
Lessons for fact checkers, gaps in our knowledge and new directions | Continue reading
Teaching is key and concerns everyone. As soon as we interact with others, we transmit knowledge, whether at work or at home, orally or in writing, with a person or in front of an audience, we are confronted with it on a daily basis. Here is a list of the best pragmatic principle … | Continue reading
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a tho … | Continue reading
How many scientific breakthroughs have been lost because they came from outside the mainstream? | Continue reading
We will discuss how Merkle trees are utilized by both Git and Bitcoin. | Continue reading