Insects might soon be trained to protect crops

One of the biggest contemporary challenges for humanity is to safeguard food security for current and future generations. A growing demand and a steady increase of the world population—nearly 10 billion people are expected to inhabit Earth by 2050—requires that food production pe … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Higgs Troika for Baryon Asymmetry

To explain the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, we extend the Standard Model(SM) with two additional Higgs doublets with small vacuum expectation values.The additional Higgs fields interact... | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 4 years ago

Go 1.13.1 and 1.12.10, using Postgres in Go, a high perf Go cache and more

FYI: my team at Jexia is looking for an accomplished Go developer. Jexia is a cloud platform that provides, scales and maintains core software functions, such as authorization, user management, data storage and RTC, out of the box for developers. | Continue reading


@go-gazette.com | 4 years ago

An ethicist weighs in on our moral failure to act on climate change

In her address to the United Nations, Greta Thunberg charged adults with unforgivable moral failure. By failing to enact real change that will reverse global warming trends, grown-ups, she said, have "stolen my dreams and childhood." | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

What you can learn from live coders

2019 seems to be the year of the live coder. In this article I am going to tell you what you can learn from live coders. | Continue reading


@danvega.dev | 4 years ago

How do piranhas replace their sharp teeth?

Piranhas and their herbivorous cousins pacus have distinctive teeth used to tear through tough food. A recent paper by Matthew Kolmann, a postdoctoral fellow in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biological Sciences, suggests that how these fish lose their t … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Fingerprints of Earth's original building blocks discovered in diamond-bearing rocks

Chemical signatures recently found in rock formations are providing critical insight for understanding the formation of Earth, according to scientists. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Political scientist asks: Is the United States on the brink of a revolution?

Political scientists have historically been bad at foreseeing the most important developments. Few of us guessed the end of the Cold War; almost no one saw the Arab Spring coming. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

IPCC report paints catastrophic picture of melting ice and rising sea levels—and reality may be even worse

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the UN body responsible for communicating the science of climate breakdown—has released its long-awaited Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Amazon unveils a couple new Ring cameras that cost less than $100

Plus, a connected dog tag (yep) that uses Amazon's new wireless IoT protocol. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 years ago

Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries to build fuel cell powered ships

Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), a part of Samsung Group, today are collaborating to design and develop ships powered by Bloom Energy’s solid oxide fuel cell technology. Bloom Energy is the world’s leading provider of stationary fuel cells and SHI is one of the wo … | Continue reading


@greencarcongress.com | 4 years ago

What it takes to build API Integration

As the number of integrations you have to build, starts to grow, consuming all those third-party APIs at scale becomes a technical challenge. | Continue reading


@blog.bearer.sh | 4 years ago

“Stubs” in the .NET Runtime

As the saying goes: “All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection”- David Wheeler | Continue reading


@mattwarren.org | 4 years ago

High pressure electronic transitions a pathway to high-temperature superconductivity in hydrogen

An international experimental research team led by Professor Ho-Kwang Mao and Dr. Cheng Ji from HPSTAR, China and a theory team led by Professor Rajeev Ahuja, Uppsala University, have used experimental research as well as theory to understand high-pressure structural phase transi … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Unique footage of trypanosome creates new opportunities to fight sleeping sickness

The parasite trypanosome does not swim through a blood vessel as has always been assumed, it can simply be carried along with the flow. The parasite responsible for tens of thousands of deaths can, however, clings to the wall of a blood vessel. The single-celled organism can also … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

As attack drones multiply, Israeli firms develop defenses

YEHUD, Israel (AP) — Israel, one of the pioneers of drone warfare, is now on the front lines of an arms race to protect against attacks by the unmanned aircraft. A host of Israeli companies... | Continue reading


@apnews.com | 4 years ago

The Missing Ingredient in Kraft Heinz’s Restructuring

As the company cut costs, its ability to innovate suffered. | Continue reading


@hbr.org | 4 years ago

The Multiverses of Robert Grosseteste

A medieval polymath looks for the origin of the cosmos. | Continue reading


@laphamsquarterly.org | 4 years ago

Public Opinion in Authoritarian States

A blog about history, strategy, geopolitics, and the intersections of governance, ecology, demographics, and culture. | Continue reading


@scholars-stage.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Announcing Drone OS 0.10

Announcing Drone 0.10 | Continue reading


@drone-os.com | 4 years ago

Avoidance Learning Using Observational Reinforcement Learning

Imitation learning seeks to learn an expert policy from sampleddemonstrations. However, in the real world, it is often difficult to find aperfect expert and avoiding dangerous behaviors becomes... | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 4 years ago

A tutorial implementation of a dependently typed lambda calculus [pdf]

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@andres-loeh.de | 4 years ago

We Answer 10 Questions About Blockchain

This article is the beginning of our new article series “We answer 10 questions about…”. We have checked the list of most commonly… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Demystifying Poetic Meter

Frankie Thomas demystifies poetic meter. | Continue reading


@theparisreview.org | 4 years ago

Why Even New Grads Need to Reskill for the Future

Having a degree doesn’t mean you’re done learning. | Continue reading


@hbr.org | 4 years ago

How to Invent Everything

You're about to make history... better. | Continue reading


@howtoinventeverything.com | 4 years ago

Top Disadvantages of Solar Energy

Same as any other technological development, solar energy has some major disadvantages. Here are the top 5 disadvantages of solar energy. | Continue reading


@allinallspace.com | 4 years ago

Implementing graceful-close in Haskell network library

Closing connections gracefully is an old and new problem in network programming. In the HTTP/1.1 days, this did not get attention since HTTP/1.1 is a synchronous protocol. However, as Niklas Hambüchen concretely and completely explained, HTTP/2 servers should close connections gr … | Continue reading


@kazu-yamamoto.hatenablog.jp | 4 years ago

What happens when 3 men who identify as Jesus are forced to live together (2010)

Slate’s Use of Your Data | Continue reading


@slate.com | 4 years ago

Tourism or permanent settling: Study shows different consequences for coastal fauna

Coasts are habitats for many endangered species and are therefore of great ecological value. They are also of great economic value, as humans use them in very different ways: for instance as areas of permanent settling or as tourist destinations. Researchers at the University of … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Iterating over objects and arrays: frequent errors

A quick reference to why your code isn't working, or some errors I frequently make with iteration when the coffee wears off. | Continue reading


@victoria.dev | 4 years ago

The Case for Hiring Older Workers

Many companies consider age a competitive disadvantage. Here’s why they’re wrong. | Continue reading


@hbr.org | 4 years ago

Mistakes of AI adoption: mismatch of business and tech

What are the common mistakes of AI adoption? Organizations often struggle with the business/tech alignment. See how to avoid making the same mistakes. | Continue reading


@neoteric.eu | 4 years ago

Outsourcing to Ukraine 2019/2020 All you need to know

1 000 sq. ft. office for a team of 25–35 IT specialists in Ukraine would cost less $1 Mill. e.g., the same office space in SF, California… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Apple threatens company with lawsuit for open source animoji alternative

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@webojis.jeeliz.com | 4 years ago

Immortality Roadmap

Шаблон универсальной бизнес страницы | Continue reading


@immortality-roadmap.com | 4 years ago

How Being a Working Parent Changes as Children Grow Up

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@hbr.org | 4 years ago

Earth’s aliens – Does Earth have a shadow biosphere?

Alien lifeforms might be living right under our noses, but how can we find them if we don’t know what we’re looking for? | Continue reading


@aeon.co | 4 years ago

Gigantic Chinese telescope opens to astronomers worldwide

FAST has superior sensitivity to detect cosmic phenomena, including fast radio bursts and pulsars. | Continue reading


@nature.com | 4 years ago

A search for supersymmetric partners of gluons and quarks

FAST has superior sensitivity to detect cosmic phenomena, including fast radio bursts and pulsars. | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 4 years ago

Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them

Shouldn’t you announce your goals, so friends can support you? | Continue reading


@sivers.org | 4 years ago

How Does a Virtual Office Address Benefit Your Business?

If you are looking for an opportunity to own a Virtual Office Address, NYC Virtual Office is your reliable partner. It offers services such as mail receiving, mail forwarding, mail scanning | Continue reading


@nycvirtualoffice.com | 4 years ago

Azure Message Brokers Patterns for Data Applications

I have previously written how pub/sub patterns could be helpful to put machine learning models into production, but message brokers in… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

The Morning Watch: Adam Savage’s Incredible Star-Lord Cosplay, Wes Anderson’s Visual Toolbox & More

In this edition, see how Adam Savage made his incredible Star-Lord cosplay, check out Wes Anderson's visual toolbox in Moonrise Kingdom, and more. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

How Often Do I Really Need to Clean My Coffee Maker?

If your machine is making awful coffee, you might be serving mold and mineral deposits with it. Here’s everything you need to know to clean your coffee maker. | Continue reading


@thewirecutter.com | 4 years ago

Why are scientists so excited about a recently claimed quantum computing milestone?

A quantum computer may have solved a problem in minutes that would take the fastest conventional supercomputer more than 10,000 years. A draft of a paper by Google researchers laying out the achievement leaked in recent days, setting off an avalanche of news coverage and speculat … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Diversify your conference – Ideas for conference organisers

Ideas for conference organisers | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Nuclear waste is piling up: Governments need to stop dithering and take action

The UK government has launched a process to find a volunteer community who would be willing to host a £12 billion geological disposal facility for nuclear waste. It's about time—the initiative comes after seven decades of successive governments putting the decision off. The situa … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago