Billions lost as illicit fisheries trade hurting nations who can afford it least

More than eight million to 14 million tonnes of unreported fish catches are traded illicitly every year, costing the legitimate market between $9 billion and $17 billion in trade each year, according to new UBC research. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Complex local conditions keep fields of dunes from going active all at once

Sand dunes, like many ecosystems, have more than one comfort zone. Variations in moisture, especially, can shift them from active, blowing waves of dry sand to rolling mounds with soils held down by grass and low shrubs. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Ancient meteorite site on Earth could reveal new clues about Mars' past

Scientists have devised new analytical tools to break down the enigmatic history of Mars' atmosphere—and whether life was once possible there. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Kate, JUST WEAR ATHLEISURE FOR THIS.

This is very cute and also really wrong. | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 4 years ago

Cannibalism on rise among polar bears, say Russian scientists

Cases of polar bears killing and eating each other are on the rise in the Arctic as melting ice and human activity erode their habitat, a Russian scientist said Wednesday. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Steven Spielberg No Longer Directing ‘Indiana Jones 5’; James Mangold Might Take Over Instead

Steven Spielberg is handing Indiana Jones 5 directorial duties off to James Mangold. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Luminale 2020 sí se realiza

Luminale 2020 si se llevará a cabo a pesar de que Light + Building se hya pospuesto para septiembre | Continue reading


@iluminet.com | 4 years ago

Roll, Roll, Roll Your Mac Gently Down the Hall

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@512pixels.net | 4 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise #335: Some Sort of Dongleage

This week, on the 30-minute tech show that takes up just 1/48th of your day, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Jeff Carlson and Shelly Brisbin to discuss the debate over standardizing smartphone charging ports, how we feel about HomeKit Secure Vi... | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 4 years ago

Are cats the 'canary in the coal mine' for wildfire effects on human health?

Cats who suffered burns and smoke inhalation in recent California wildfires also had a high incidence of heart problems, according to a new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis, Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. The study represents the first publishe … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Method with polarized light can create and measure nonsymmetrical states in a layered material

Some molecules, including most of the ones in living organisms, have shapes that can exist in two different mirror-image versions. The right- and left-handed versions can sometimes have different properties, such that only one of them carries out the molecule's functions. Now, a … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Expertise Is 'Just' Pattern Matching

I find it a little difficult to believe that expertise is 'merely' pattern-matching. And yet it seems to have resulted in the some of my best learning outcomes over the past year. A look at my scepticism, in the context of several ideas we've covered in this blog. | Continue reading


@commoncog.com | 4 years ago

CouchDB 3.0

Dear community, Apache CouchDB® 3.0.0 has been released and is available for download. Apache CouchDB® lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in … | Continue reading


@blog.couchdb.org | 4 years ago

Mosaic evolution painted lorikeets a rainbow of color

A new study examines how color evolved in one of the flashiest groups of parrots—Australasian lorikeets—finding that different plumage patches on the birds evolved independently through time. The study, published this week in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, helps explain wh … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

An Engineer’s Guide to Stock Options

There’s a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt when it comes to stock options, and I’d like to try and clear some of that up today. As an engineer, you may be more interested in getting on with your job than compensation. However, if you’re working... | Continue reading


@blog.alexmaccaw.com | 4 years ago

How to Prep RC Car Body for Paint

RC Car Body Paint Schemes Basic Build Part 2 The information below may not give you the best results, it is therefore only intended ... | Continue reading


@catxls.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Kickstarter's Union, Activism, and Tech Class Conflict

Last week, Kickstarter employees voted to unionize, creating the tech industry’s first union of white-collar workers. Responses were mixed, to say the least. Presidential candidates applauded the move. Venture capitalists, on the other hand, tended to be | Continue reading


@10mohstech.substack.com | 4 years ago

Uncertainty in a Time of Coronavirus

Why communicating public health risk during an epidemic is so challenging | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It’s a Process

An MVP is not just a product with half of the features chopped out, or a way to get the product out the door a little earlier. | Continue reading


@blog.ycombinator.com | 4 years ago

‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially

‘People You May Know’ helped the social media giant grow exponentially. One man made it happen. An exclusive excerpt from ‘Facebook: The… | Continue reading


@marker.medium.com | 4 years ago

I can serve ~533k visitors (~927k pages) of my sites/month for free with Netlify

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@labs.iamhamy.xyz | 4 years ago

RepairSmith Acquires CarDash

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, RepairSmith announces the acquisition of CarDash, a service-based startup with a shared mission to bring car owners convenient car... | Continue reading


@prnewswire.com | 4 years ago

Hard Startups

The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.  A hard startup requires a lot more money, time, coordination, or... | Continue reading


@blog.samaltman.com | 4 years ago

‘No Time to Die’ Could Be the Longest Bond Movie Ever, Which Means You’ll Have No Time to Pee

The No Time to Die runtime has seemingly been revealed, and it's pretty darn long. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Addressing Temporal Memory Safety

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@cst.cam.ac.uk | 4 years ago

The Etch a Sketch Revolution lets you draw circles

All of my childhood memories involving Etch a Sketch end the same way. I’d fiddle with the knobs and then after a few minutes, shake it in frustration, erasing all evidence of my hideous “art.” The ionic toy is marking its 60th anniversary this year with a few limited edition lau … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 4 years ago

What, You Think Gear Testing Is Easy?

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@adventure-journal.com | 4 years ago

Web3/Solidity based wargame inspired on overthewire.org

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@ethernaut.openzeppelin.com | 4 years ago

The Bathtubs or the Boiler Room (2012)

The Senate bathing facility, pictured here, boasted of tubs carved from single blocks of Carrara marble. Minton tiles covered the floor. In 1869 a city newspaper published a description of one of these luxurious bathing chambers, noting that ‘when not in use, it is always open to … | Continue reading


@99percentinvisible.org | 4 years ago

Make your websites more eco-friendly with Sustainable Web Development

Fika Studio is a fullstack development studio. Building beautiful web applications, prototypes & tools for startups. | Continue reading


@fika.studio | 4 years ago

Researchers connect microbes in the twilight zone of the ocean with the breakdown of tough organic molecules

Seawater is more than just saltwater. The ocean is a veritable soup of chemicals. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

This Pizza Joint Placed Tiny Chairs With The Tiny Table We Get On Pizzas and It Is Adorable

Officially, those table things that come in your pizza delivery are pizza savers, to prevent your cheese from sticking to the box.  But everyone | Continue reading


@kidsactivitiesblog.com | 4 years ago

Researchers develop technique to create nanomaterials which may help detect cancer earlier

For the first time, a team of scientists at the University of Central Florida has created functional nanomaterials with hollow interiors that can be used to create highly sensitive biosensors for early cancer detection. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Apple and the NTSB

The National Transportation Safety Board has called out Apple over the fact it doesn't have a policy banning the use of mobile devices whilst driving after one of its engineers was killed in a crash in 2018. | Continue reading


@imore.com | 4 years ago

Kr00k vuln in WiFi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of traffic

Kr00k – formally known as CVE-2019-15126 – is a vulnerability in Broadcom and Cypress Wi-Fi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of some WPA2-encrypted traffic. | Continue reading


@eset.com | 4 years ago

Uber’s new digital OOH unit brings location-targeted ads to car-top screens

Suddenly, the market for programmatic taxi-top advertising is accelerating. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 4 years ago

Explained: Why water droplets 'bounce off the walls'

University of Warwick researchers can now explain why some water droplets bounce like a beach ball off surfaces, without ever actually touching them. Now the design and engineering of future droplet technologies can be made more precise and efficient. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

V8 Release v8.1

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@v8.dev | 4 years ago

Marcus Hutter: AIXI and AGI

Marcus Hutter is a senior research scientist at DeepMind and professor at Australian National University. Throughout his career of research, including with Jürgen Schmidhuber and Shane Legg, he has proposed a lot of interesting ideas in and around the field of artificial general … | Continue reading


@lexfridman.com | 4 years ago

Storm Reid Looks Kind of Like a Mermaid In This

Also: Elisabeth Moss. | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 4 years ago

‘Saint Maud’ Trailer Promises You Holy Hell

The new Saint Maud trailer is ready to celebrate (?) Ash Wednesday. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

When Discord is outdated on Linux, it pushes you to install their binary

This is a public issue aimed at Discord’s Linux client. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Asthma: Researchers uncover critical role for Caspase-11 protein

- By Nuadox Crew - Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have made a discovery that may eventually lead to improved therapeutic options for people living with asthma. The researchers have uncovered... | Continue reading


@nuadox.com | 4 years ago

The atmosphere gets in the way of the universe’s most amazing objects

Earth’s atmosphere thankfully provides air for us to breathe, but when trying to study interesting objects in space it causes all sorts of problems, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 4 years ago

Make kimchi at home by cultivating a friendly microbial ecosystem

Encouraging the growth of benign bacteria is a tasty way to preserve vegetables, such as with this easy kimchi recipe, says Sam Wong | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 4 years ago

People who get lost in the wild follow strangely predictable paths

Lose your bearings in an unfamiliar landscape and fear shreds your navigational brain. But studies are now revealing the common mistakes lost people make, helping rescue teams to find them before it’s too late | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 4 years ago

E-scooters are a disaster for cities – but we must embrace them

Electric scooters are a nightmare. Rented by the minute, they clog up pavements and are an ungainly eyesore, but we still need them, says Donna Lu | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 4 years ago

Ancient viruses buried in our DNA may reawaken and cause illness

Stress or infection may prompt viruses hidden in our genome to stagger back to life, contributing to some cases of multiple sclerosis, diabetes and schizophrenia | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 4 years ago