Vanishing Point: How the Light Grid Defined 1980s Futurism

Of all the visual shorthand for a particular type of outmoded futurism, one of the most immediately recognizable must be the light grid. | Continue reading


@wearethemutants.com | 3 years ago

An Abandoned Mansion in NYC Raises Questions

New York City is one of the most populated cities in America with over 8.5 million residents. You would think that as skyscrapers are built up and rent prices s | Continue reading


@hooch.net | 3 years ago

KStars v3.5.0 Is Released

Glad to announce the release of KStars v3.5.0 for Windows, MacOS, and Linux . This release marks a significant milestone for KStars with the... | Continue reading


@knro.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

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


@scripting.com | 3 years ago

Israeli scientists claim to reverse aging process

“We are going backwards in time,” Prof. Shai Efrati said. | Continue reading


@jpost.com | 3 years ago

Coding Education Platform for Schools

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@codehs.com | 3 years ago

Show HN: Like Hacker News for VR Startups

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@spatialape.com | 3 years ago

Australia is cracking down on foreign interference in research. Is it working?

Pioneering guidelines aren’t enough to prevent overseas militaries such as China’s from co-opting the country’s science, say some experts. | Continue reading


@nature.com | 3 years ago

250kb-Club – the better 1MB club?

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@250kb.club | 3 years ago

Alibaba’s Ultra High-Performance RISC-V Superscalar Processor

At the HotChips conference 2020, Alibaba announced the Xuantie-910 RISC-V core which is an ultra high-performance processor with an AI acceleration engine based on RISC-V RV64GCV. | Continue reading


@embedded-computing.com | 3 years ago

Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber Bullshit Jobs A Theory May 15, 2018, originally published. ISBN 978-1-5011-4331-1, ISBN 978-1-5011-4334-2 (ebook); Most names and many... | Continue reading


@theanarchistlibrary.org | 3 years ago

November 21 Covid-19 Test Results; Record Hospitalizations

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@calculatedriskblog.com | 3 years ago

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@buzzfeednews.com | 3 years ago

Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century

This publication is the final report of the bipartisan Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship. It includes 31 recommendations to strengthen America’s institutions and civic culture to help a nation in crisis emerge with a more resilient democracy. | Continue reading


@amacad.org | 3 years ago

Dr. Dobb's Interview with Alan Kay [pdf]

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@link.springer.com | 3 years ago

Apple said to be among US companies lobbying against Uighur forced labor bill

Major U.S. companies, reportedly including Apple, are lobbying against a new piece of legislation that seeks to prevent forced labor in China. | Continue reading


@appleinsider.com | 3 years ago

How to build your own Zapier alternative for free

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@learnaws.org | 3 years ago

Using Python's Bisect Module

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@johnlekberg.com | 3 years ago

About the Pandemic Impact Fund

The Pandemic Impact Fund focuses on early-stage, tech companies that can significantly help with everything pandemic and deliver venture returns. | Continue reading


@pandemicimpact.wpengine.com | 3 years ago

Viewable with Any Browser Campaign (2011)

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@anybrowser.org | 3 years ago

When the Enslaved Went South

In the four decades before the Civil War, thousands of fugitive slaves escaped from the U.S. to Mexico. Runaways found both unfamiliar risks and high rewards south of the border. | Continue reading


@newyorker.com | 3 years ago

Frequent, rapid testing could turn national Covid-19 tide within weeks

New research shows that broad, national dissemination of frequent, rapid COVID-19 tests could turn the tide on the pandemic within weeks, without shutting down schools and businesses. For curbing infection, test turnaround time is more important than test sensitivity. | Continue reading


@colorado.edu | 3 years ago

Eight Early Encyclopedia Projects and the Mechanisms of Collective Action [pdf]

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@citeseerx.ist.psu.edu | 3 years ago

What Delaware license plates tell us about social status signalling

A study of low-numbered Delaware license plates finds that their mere scarcity has turned them into a valuable form of status signalling. | Continue reading


@psychnewsdaily.com | 3 years ago

Retirement Notice

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@universal-radio.com | 3 years ago

Homework Is Bad, Research Confirms

Education scholars say that math homework as it's currently assigned reinforces class divides in society and needs to change for good. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

One file that mixes all current JavaScript proposals

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@mobile.twitter.com | 3 years ago

Leather Balls and 3k-Year-Old Pants Hint at an Ancient Asian Sport

They were found in the Yanghai Tombs in modern-day Northern China. | Continue reading


@atlasobscura.com | 3 years ago

Autonomous Green Robot Cars Deliver Medicine Around London – IE

The Kar-go, developed by the Academy of Robotics, has started its first trials on public roads. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 3 years ago

Ryzen vs. Apple Silicon and why Zen 3 is not so bad as you may think

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@webcodr.io | 3 years ago

Uyghur Detainees at Guantanamo Bay

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@en.wikipedia.org | 3 years ago

Trump Losses Keep Piling Up As Judge Smacks Down Campaign Lawsuit In PA

Pennsylvania officials can certify election results that currently show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes,... | Continue reading


@talkingpointsmemo.com | 3 years ago

NASA Announces Moon Supply Unloading System Design Winners

NASA Announces Moon Supply Unloading System Design Winners | Continue reading


@nasa.gov | 3 years ago

TT2020: An old-timey typewriter typeface that doesn't look fake – Boing Boing

TT2020 is “an advanced, open source, hyperrealistic, multilingual typewriter font for a new decade!” As there already are so many, why another? Creator Fredrick Brennan (previously) poi… | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 3 years ago

DoorDash site crash at Saturday night

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@mobile.twitter.com | 3 years ago

GNU Terry Pratchett with Netlify and Hugo

Terry Pratchett is my favourite author. It’s not even close. His wit and wisdom shaped about as much of my worldview as my own parents. He died in 2015, and it was awful. In the global trash fire of 2020, I’ve been re-reading a lot of his books for comfort, and it reminded me of … | Continue reading


@jmablog.com | 3 years ago

#53: Runway ML's Green Screen, new tools from EMNLP, and tracking illegal cattle farming with AI

Hey everyone, welcome to Dynamically Typed #53! It has one again been a very busy two weeks on my news feeds, so let’s dive straight in. For productized AI, Runway ML launched the first (well, maybe) web-based automated video background removal tool; and Apple open-sourced a fork … | Continue reading


@dynamicallytyped.com | 3 years ago

Artificial Intelligence Picture Restorer

Restore pictures with AI. Remove scratches, sharpen colors, and enhance faces in seconds. The service also works on modern images with faded colors or damaged parts. | Continue reading


@hotpot.ai | 3 years ago

Jetpack Compose: ViewModels

If you are have developed Android apps chances are you are familiar with ViewModel and unidirectional data flow. But how does this paradigm fits into this new Jetpack Compose world? | Continue reading


@rockandnull.com | 3 years ago

The Most Innovative –$50 Graphics Card for Linux Users

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@phoronix.com | 3 years ago

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@slate.com | 3 years ago

Run native Linux OS as a VM on Windows using HyperV. No more dual booting

Use HyperV to boot native Linux OS on a different disk to run as a VM | Continue reading


@bagdeabhishek.github.io | 3 years ago

To Split or Not to Split: The Future of CYBERCOM’s Relationship with NSA

U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) is the U.S. armed forces command charged with offensive and defensive cyber operations. Since 2010, it has coexisted with NSA as two organizations under one director. It is simultaneously embedded within U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), a functiona … | Continue reading


@lawfareblog.com | 3 years ago

Do technical mechanisms for building ‘trust’ help people trust systems?

They're the bedrock of e-commerce and sharing economies, but do they really work and have they crossed a line? | Continue reading


@mukulrathi.co.uk | 3 years ago

1 in 4 Americans are jobless or earning poverty-level wages, new study finds

Official government statistics don't fully capture just how much millions of Americans are hurting, one expert says. | Continue reading


@cbsnews.com | 3 years ago

Bodies of man and his slave unearthed from ashes at Pompeii

ROME (AP) — Skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave attempting to escape death from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago have been... | Continue reading


@apnews.com | 3 years ago

“scraping fleets from public accounts without triggering the read notification”

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@mobile.twitter.com | 3 years ago

Phoronix M1 ARM Performance with a 2020 Mac Mini

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@phoronix.com | 3 years ago