Vaping Illness Case Count Tops 1k, with 18 Deaths

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@choice.npr.org | 4 years ago

The Open Letter from the Governments of US, UK, and Australia to Facebook is An All-Out Attack on Encryption

Top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia told Facebook today that they want backdoor access to all encrypted messages sent on all its platforms. In an open letter, these governments called on Mark Zuckerberg to stop Facebook’s plan to intr … | Continue reading


@eff.org | 4 years ago

‘Sesame Street’ Heads to HBO Max with Deal for Five New Seasons, Four Spin-Off Shows & More

Today, a press release announced the formation of an HBO Max Sesame Street deal that includes five new seasons, four spin-off shows, and much more. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Stockton, CA Tested Universal Basic Income. Here’s How Recipients Spent It

The 18-month, privately funded program started in February and involves 125 people in Stockton. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 4 years ago

Using Triggers and Strategy to Prepare Users for Product Updates

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@headway.io | 4 years ago

Show HN: I made a (harmless) Google login phish to prank my friends

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@myaccount.glitch.me | 4 years ago

We Started a $3MM/Year Catering Delivery Service

It’s lunchtime at the office. Everyone is hungry and anxious for a break from the workday. The team walks into the kitchen only to find it’s pizza for lunch. Again. Or maybe instead of pizza it’s a bland boxed-lunch style sandwich. Either way, these types of mundane meals repeat … | Continue reading


@starterstory.com | 4 years ago

Turn open source code into a glitch-art dress

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@haute.codes | 4 years ago

A first look at using web packaging to improve AMP URLs

One of the top pieces of feedback that people share about AMP is about the “google.com/amp…” URLs that are used when linking to a piece of AMP content in Google Search. A couple of months ago, the … | Continue reading


@blog.amp.dev | 4 years ago

IndieWebCamp Amsterdam 2019

Recapping my time at IndieWebCamp Amsterdam, my first 'official' IndieWeb event, and meeting some of the big names in the community. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 4 years ago

The pain of tracking down changes in U.S. law

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@blog.plover.com | 4 years ago

Stack Overflow: An Update to Our Community and an Apology

Last week we made an important decision for our community. We removed a moderator for repeatedly violating our existing Code of Conduct and being unwilling to accept our CM’s repeated requests to c... | Continue reading


@meta.stackexchange.com | 4 years ago

Finnovation SF – October 14

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@finnovation.events | 4 years ago

Overdetermination

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

James Wan Boards ‘Gideon Falls’ Comic Adaptation as Executive Producer

The Gideon Falls TV series has added the perfect executive producer with James Wan and his Atomic Monster production banner coming aboard. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Art market flatline, 2019’s best show title, borrowed landscapes, art of Emsh + more!

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@theartlife.com.au | 4 years ago

Art market flatline, 2019’s best show title, borrowed landscapes, art of Emsh + more!

Friday degustation: all cards accepted | Continue reading


@theartlife.com.au | 4 years ago

Young people need more modern housing choices

‘Affordable housing’ isn’t affordable for young people. | Continue reading


@thersa.org | 4 years ago

Show HN: I am a high school student and I did research on 3D adversarial attacks

The importance of training robust neural network grows as 3D data isincreasingly utilized in deep learning for vision tasks, like autonomousdriving. We examine this problem from the perspective... | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 4 years ago

Shame of a Nation: The 1% Rules, the 99% Lets Them!

By Ralph Nader October 3, 2019 There has never been more access to food – domestic and imported – yet hunger is an ongoing problem everywhere. In the U.S. alone, 16.5 million children go to bed hungry | Continue reading


@nader.org | 4 years ago

‘The Good Liar’ Trailer: Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen Play a Dangerous Game

Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen are toying with each other in the new The Good Liar trailer, which suggests that neither are who they appear to be. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

A mind-controlled exoskeleton helped a man with paralysis walk again

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@newscientist.com | 4 years ago

Bonus Quote of the Day

"Sometimes, I think he is having a limbo contest with himself, to see how low he can go in his rhetoric. I think he was surprised that this happened, because he thinks he can do whatever he wants."-- Speaker Nancy Pelosi, quoted by the Washington Post, on the impeachment inquiry … | Continue reading


@politicalwire.com | 4 years ago

‘Zombi Child’ Review: A Chilling and Wholly Unique Take on the Walking Dead [NYFF 2019]

In our Zombi Child review, we take a look at a movie that goes back to the roots of the zombie myth for a fresh experience. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

The Cost of Waiting for Feedback in Software Development

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@hadermann.be | 4 years ago

I Am A Serious Adult Don’t You Know

Here's me finishing up my keynote address yesterday, looking for all the world like I'm a politician at a town hall meeting. I am not a state senator, my friends. I am but a humble science fiction writer. | Continue reading


@whatever.scalzi.com | 4 years ago

SSP, or the Art of Creating a Business

In Zero to One, Peter Thiel writes that while Richard Branson always seemed like an entrepreneur, “…other aspects of his renown — the… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

What electronic games can teach us

Digital play can enhance certain types of learning, but how to harness that potential for the classroom remains a prize question    | Continue reading


@knowablemagazine.org | 4 years ago

Benefits of Agrivoltaics Across the Food-Energy-Water Nexus

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@nrel.gov | 4 years ago

He Never Intended to Be a Political Dissident but Began Beating Tai Chi Masters

On a recent Thursday evening in August, a 40-year-old MMA gym owner in Beijing named Xu Xiaodong activated his VPN, hopped over the Chinese government’s internet firewall, and began his first-ever live YouTube broadcast. He wanted to talk about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, … | Continue reading


@deadspin.com | 4 years ago

“People do not walk there if they can avoid it”

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@samizdata.net | 4 years ago

How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

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@numinous.productions | 4 years ago

An Adorable Stop-Motion Animation About a Silly Wizard Who Only Knows Spells That Turn Things Into Ducks

In an adorable stop motion animation by Terry Ibele and voiced by Davey Swatpaz, a round little wizard bemoans the fact that he only knows spells that | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Scientists Look to Reverse Aging So We Can Live Decades Longer

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@choice.npr.org | 4 years ago

When People Chasing After Money and Fame Turn Platforms into Trainwrecks

at what point does copying destroys original thought and experiences? | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Multicore prerequisite patches appearing in released OCaml compilers now

The release of OCaml 4.09.0 is particularly significant for us at OCaml Labs, as it represents a phase shift in our development efforts towards integrating multicore parallelism into the language. For the past few years, we have been implementing multicore as a branch based off … | Continue reading


@discuss.ocaml.org | 4 years ago

‘Doctor Sleep’ Featurette Goes Back to the Overlook With Tons of New Footage From ‘The Shining’ Sequel

Go behind-the-scenes of The Shining sequel with a new Doctor Sleep featurette loaded with new footage. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Regaining Confidence

Dear HBR: answers your questions with the help of former Walmart executive Neil Pasricha. | Continue reading


@hbr.org | 4 years ago

WeWork is planning to lay off up to 25% of its employees

The embattled office-sharing company's new co-CEOs are eyeing thousands of job cuts as they seek to streamline the business. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

EU nations can force Facebook to remove content worldwide, court rules

The ruling could let EU nations override other countries' own laws, critics say. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 years ago

Addressing the Sociopolitical Effects of the Refugee Crises

Critical insight into why some countries are more willing to open their borders, while others are doing the opposite… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

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@manton.org | 4 years ago

'Yes, We Have No Bananas': The Federal Reserve Can't Give Us What We Need

In the song, when a street vendor is found lacking something, such as bananas, he sings Yes, we have no bananas… thus staying positive about what he can't provi | Continue reading


@seekingalpha.com | 4 years ago

I've Never Felt Professionally Lonelier Than I Did at a WeWork

WeWork touts its ability to build community, but coworking is bleak. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Cable companies use hidden fees to raise prices 24% a month

Analysis of cable bills finds loads of fees not mentioned in advertised price. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 years ago

Apple Bans App That Allowed Hong Kong Protestors to Track Police Movements

Apple has reportedly banned an app that allows Hong Kong protestors to track protests and police movements in the city state, despite increasing... | Continue reading


@macrumors.com | 4 years ago

HTTP Desync Attacks: what happened next

Last month I published HTTP Desync Attacks: Request Smuggling Reborn. Since then, there's been a range of new developments. While vendors have been deploying fixes and publishing advisories, I've devi | Continue reading


@portswigger.net | 4 years ago

Kickstarter refuses employee's request to recognize union

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@mobile.twitter.com | 4 years ago