Blue Whale Song Timing Reveals Time to Go

Blue whales off the California coast sing at night until it's time to start migrating when they switch to daytime song. | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 3 years ago

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday returned to his office in the White House after his doctor reported that he was showing no COVID-19 symptoms, but a tough fight awaits to revive the Republican's struggling re-election bid. | Continue reading


@mobile.reuters.com | 3 years ago

People cannot differentiate AI-generated from human-written poetry

The release of openly available, robust natural language generationalgorithms (NLG) has spurred much public attention and debate. One reason liesin the algorithms' purported ability to generate... | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 3 years ago

What Top Schools Now Charge for Their EMBA Programs (2019)

The cost of getting an Executive MBA keeps going up & has hit a new record with Northwestern Kellogg surpassing Wharton for the most costly at $213,564 | Continue reading


@poetsandquantsforexecs.com | 3 years ago

Opportunities and obstacles in using Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help maintain cyber security and guard against digital assaults. However, using machine learning hackers can thwart security algorithms by morphing the data they train on. Programmers can likewise utilize AI to get through safeguards and firewalls … | Continue reading


@thinkml.ai | 3 years ago

Billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs is offloading some of her investments in journalism as the pandemic decimates the media industry. | Continue reading


@amp.cnn.com | 3 years ago

Neuron-Mimicking Nanoscale Electronic Circuit Element for Neuromorphic AI

Researchers introduce an isolated nanoscale electronic circuit element that can perform nonmonotonic operations and transistorless all-analogue computations. | Continue reading


@syncedreview.com | 3 years ago

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@nejm.org | 3 years ago

Study reveals potential of hydropower dams topped with floating solar

Hydropower plants that leverage the force of falling water to generate electricity are already an important part of the global energy mix, but a new study suggests they may have much more to offer. Scientists have carried out an analysis of the energy potential of combining these … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 3 years ago

Enigma Machine

An Enigma machine is a famous encryption machine used by the Germans during WWII to transmit coded messages. An Enigma machine allows for billions and billions of ways to encode a message, making it incredibly difficult for other nations to crack German codes during the war — for … | Continue reading


@brilliant.org | 3 years ago

How Can We Be So Dense? The Benefits of Using Highly Sparse Representations

Most artificial networks today rely on dense representations, whereasbiological networks rely on sparse representations. In this paper we show howsparse representations can be more robust to... | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 3 years ago

Show HN: Almost Real Resume – fully ML generated resumes

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@fake.jsonresume.org | 3 years ago

Node.js – v14.13.1

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. | Continue reading


@nodejs.org | 3 years ago

Electric bicycle sales are higher than ever, but it's created a new problem

While the COVID-19 pandemic shook the world and the e-bike industry with it, the pandemic also led to a huge surge in electric bicycle sales. Nearly every company that offered electric bicycles soon found themselves with empty shelves and warehouses. Between people being at home … | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 3 years ago

NSA’s Cybersecurity Perspective on Post-Quantum Cryptography Algorithms

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@nsa.gov | 3 years ago

‘The Social Network’ Sequel: Aaron Sorkin Still Wants to Write It, on One Condition

Aaron Sorkin is still down to write The Social Network sequel...as long as David Fincher comes back to direct. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 3 years ago

The black hole always chirps twice: Scientists find clues to decipher the shape of black holes

A team of gravitational wave researchers led by the ARC Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) report that when two black holes collide and merge, the remnant black hole "chirps" not once, but multiple times, emitting gravitational waves—intense ripples in … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Reconstruct Instead of Validating

Project Zero dropped a great bug in Vault which I think would have been prevented by one of the lessons learned of cryptography engineering: when you can, always prefer reconstructing a value rather than parsing and validating it. You should read the blog post to understand the … | Continue reading


@words.filippo.io | 3 years ago

Letter to the US FDA About Chlorine Dioxide for Covid-19 and Other Diseases

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@keithcu.com | 3 years ago

Presto Meets Elasticsearch – our Elasticsearch connector for Presto [video]

More often than not we find ourselves implementing BigData architectures that include those two technologies. Presto is usually deployed for what we call the “cold layer”, and Elasticsearch for the “hot layer”. Our connector finally allows to inter-connect them seamlessly. Here … | Continue reading


@blog.bigdataboutique.com | 3 years ago

The Challenges of NPNM Innovation

I’ve discussed the challenges of being an innovator in the New Product New Market (NPNM) quadrant and the risks associated with that. I’d like to take a few minutes today and expand on some of the risks and challenges. The band Kraftwerk is widely considered to be one of the corn … | Continue reading


@boneandfeathers.com | 3 years ago

Tech worker survey: Facebook still not doing enough to prevent election disinfo

With less than a month before the next U.S. Presidential election, here's new survey results from the development team of Blind, an anonymous messaging/virtual community app for company staffers that's especially popular at large tech firms. This one asked a... | Continue reading


@nwn.blogs.com | 3 years ago

Rumble Research: Inside the Most Popular Vibrator

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@insidesextoys.com | 3 years ago

New – Redis 6 Compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache

After the last Redis 5.0 compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache, there has been lots of improvements to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis including upstream supports such as 5.0.6. Earlier this year, we announced Global Datastore for Redis that lets you replicate a cluster in one region … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 3 years ago

Connected #315: The Rickies (October 2020)

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@512pixels.net | 3 years ago

Day 1357: "I feel great."

“I feel great.” | Continue reading


@whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com | 3 years ago

Takeaway Tuesday – Facing Adversity with Charlie Munger

Takeaway Tuesday on Adversity inspired by Charlie Munger Charlie Munger is best known as Warren Buffett’s longtime business partner and... | Continue reading


@butwhatfor.com | 3 years ago

Metaprogramming in Idris [pdf]

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@core.ac.uk | 3 years ago

National Quantum Initiative

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@quantum.gov | 3 years ago

Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel

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@vatican.va | 3 years ago

Google’s New Logos

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@consent.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

David Hasselhoff Explains DevOps

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@mobile.twitter.com | 3 years ago

Facebook says it will block political ads after the polls close

The move aims to prevent abuses and confusion during the post-election period. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 3 years ago

‘Completely Inadequate’: Epidemiologists Question Abrupt End To WH Contact Tracing

The White House’s sudden announcement on Tuesday that it had completed “contact tracing” for its COVID-19 outbreak raises far more... | Continue reading


@talkingpointsmemo.com | 3 years ago

After the Software Wars

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@keithcu.com | 3 years ago

Securing your legacy PHP business application with OAuth

We all have them. Line of business applications that have their own user datastore. How can you update them to use a centralized user datastore? | Continue reading


@fusionauth.io | 3 years ago

“The Public Radio” — Your Favorite FM Station in a Jar

A pre-tuned single-station FM radio housed in the simplest possible enclosure: a mason jar. | Continue reading


@toolsandtoys.net | 3 years ago

Google vs. Oracle – Oral Arguments Transcript [pdf]

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@supremecourt.gov | 3 years ago

The Importance of Urban Trees

Scientists say make cities a focus of conservation efforts. | Continue reading


@cosmosmagazine.com | 3 years ago

‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ House is Now on Zillow

This Haunting of Bly Manor Zillow listing gives you an advance look at the spooky house at the center of the Netflix series. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 3 years ago

Self-driving mail robot tested in public in Tokyo (video and article)

A self-driving delivery robot put its rubber to the road on Oct. 7, safely crossing a street in cent | Continue reading


@asahi.com | 3 years ago

A new tool for developers to share daily challenges and solutions in CODE

Share code snippets and gist. Shareable Code is a platform for programmers and developers where you can share your quick hacks and solutions of the problem we face everyday. Browse snippets, codes, tutorials and more | Continue reading


@shareablecode.com | 3 years ago

Trump Admin Suffers Another Setback In Census Gambit, But Still Has Options

An appeals court left in place on Wednesday a federal judge’s order extending to the end of the month the... | Continue reading


@talkingpointsmemo.com | 3 years ago

Microtargeted Ads Abuse Your Privacy for Nothing

If you’re cynical about the role of digital advertising on today’s Internet, a Wired article that reviews Tim Hwang’s new book, “Subprime Attention Crisis,” is worth a read.  | Continue reading


@tidbits.com | 3 years ago

Wonderfully Intricate Halloween Monster Pies

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pies Are Awesome (@thepieous) on Oct 1, 2020 at 11:24am PDT Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin of Pies Are Awesome | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Congress report details anticompetitive behavior in big tech ↦

Ars Technica’s Kate Cox has a really great overview of the recently released Congressional report on anticompetitive behavior in the tech market, including Apple: The committee found internal… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Discussion point: can children consent to puberty blockers? What about other drastic treatments?

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@samizdata.net | 3 years ago

Google Rebrands G Suite as Google Workspace

For those who need to keep track of these things, Google has rebranded its Google Apps, er…, G Suite collection of Web-based apps as services as Google Workspace.  | Continue reading


@tidbits.com | 3 years ago