The GNU Unifont project is amazing. It contains every Unicode glyph in one single file! I am going to argue that you should bundle it with your apps, your operating systems, and – at a pinch … | Continue reading
The most ambitious drone-based investigation of severe thunderstorms to date will soon be launched by atmospheric scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and three partner institutions: Texas Tech University, the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic an … | Continue reading
Data Programming Interface (DPI) is more flexible and approachable to data practitioners who just know SQL. | Continue reading
Using techniques from network science to predict new interactions between users and items | Continue reading
1. Seek first to understand, then to be understood | Continue reading
Solve a problem: How to get people excited in investing in your IoT / AI project | Continue reading
CO2 greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are likely higher today than ever before in the past 3 million years. During this time, global mean temperatures never exceeded preindustrial levels by more than 2 degrees C. The study is based on breakthrough computer simulations of ic … | Continue reading
Lois Beckett in The Guardian: Romance readers compound the sin of liking happy, sexy stories with the sin of not caring much about the opinions of serious people, which is to say, men. They are openly scornful of the outsiders who occasionally parachute in to report on them. In l … | Continue reading
Unsustainable harvesting, including hunting, trapping, fishing and logging, comprises one of the biggest threats to biodiversity. Yet, no previous assessment has investigated which areas are most vulnerable to this threat globally. | Continue reading
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American | Continue reading
Human cells have a sophisticated regulatory system that consists of labeling proteins with the small molecule ubiquitin. In a first, a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has succeeded in marking proteins with ubiquitin in a targeted manner in test tubes as well as … | Continue reading
MAX phases are viewed as promising materials for the future, for example, in the power, aerospace and medical implants industries. A new method developed by scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich now makes it possible to produce this material class on an industrial scale for th … | Continue reading
Participants in Para-cycling races – cycling with a disability – would do well to study Paul Mannion's Ph.D. research. At Eindhoven University of Technology and National University of Ireland Galway he has been investigating the aerodynamic resistance of tandem and hand cyclists. … | Continue reading
From Kathmandu to the top of the world, here’s an overview of the most popular route to Everest’s summit | Continue reading
One Monad to Prove Them All is a modern fairy tale about curiosity and perseverance, two important properties of a successful PhD student. We follow the PhD student Mona on her adventure of proving properties about Haskell programs in the proof assistant Coq. On the one hand, as … | Continue reading
Using ultrashort laser pulses lasting a few picoseconds (trillionths of a second), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered an efficient mechanism for laser ablation (material removal) that could help pave the way to the use of lower-energy, less … | Continue reading
Scientists at the University of York have mapped out how to protect over a third of the world's oceans by 2030, in order to safeguard wildlife and mitigate the impacts of climate change. | Continue reading
Music has enriched people's personal lives since the beginning of time, but scientists today have uncovered how best to make music enrich your professional life, too. | Continue reading
Chelsea Wald in Nautilus: Not long ago I diagnosed myself with the recently identified condition of sidewalk rage. It’s most pronounced when it comes to a certain friend who is a slow walker. Last month, as we sashayed our way to dinner, I found myself biting my tongue, thinking, … | Continue reading
The crew of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed shortly after takeoff last month performed all of the procedures recommended by Boeing when the plane started to nose dive but could not save it, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by Ethiopia's government. | Continue reading
The Guardian and The Economist have vastly different business models but what they share is a success in growing their readership - and revenue - through audience engagement | Continue reading
Welcome to the 33rd Issue of the NLP Newsletter. | Continue reading
Working for a tech startup is exciting yet risky. You got to be fast and innovative, have to deal with the latest technology and what not. In fact, in the recent past, the scenario of | Continue reading
Linus Torvalds' criticism of social media is strong condemnation from a guy who's famous for his own "not polite" behavior on public email lists. | Continue reading
If you are looking for cloud storage tools as Dropbox alternatives, enjoy this list. It was handpicked for you. | Continue reading
Best-selling author Helen Russell shares her findings on global happiness, and why some countries are happier than others! | Continue reading
The Investor Relations website contains information about Tesla, Inc.'s business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts. | Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence (AI) does sound like a new term that has recently started to take control over various aspects of assessments, but the very first time AI made its initial move in this sector was in the era of 1990s. It was the time when paper based assessments took a turn … | Continue reading
I brace myself as I open my email: Another note from someone who listened to my Bigfoot podcast, Wild Thing, and felt compelled to write me. Most of the time, it’s a nice fan letter. Every so often, it’s an outpouring of disappointment or an angry diatribe. And then there are let … | Continue reading
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The intuitive idea that objects influence each other because they're in physical proximity is soon to become another of those beliefs that turn out to be wrong when we look deeper | Continue reading
Idempotence means duplicates don't matter. It means you can safely retry an operation with no issues. The classic example is the elevator button: you press it twice and it does not call two elevators. We explore why we would want that property in an email server. | Continue reading
The kids named them 'Superpower Glasses' because they say that's what it feels like when they wear them | Continue reading
On Mar. 25, news came out that Faraday Future had struck deals with mobile gaming company The9 Limited to manufacture its new flagship electric vehicle V9. | Continue reading
Old Pond Way Retreat is a modern family refuge inspired by a rugged, simply crafted cabin in the Morgedal region of Norway where the ... | Continue reading
MIT is the latest top U.S. education institution to unplug telecom equipment made by Huawei and other Chinese companies to avoid losing federal funding | Continue reading
Seth Kaplan officially broke the news on WBUR this week. Andrew Levy, the former President of Allegiant, has decided to go public with his plans to start a new ultra-low-cost-carrier (ULCC). The qu… | Continue reading
Racial and ethnic minorities have less access to solar power, regardless of income, highlighting the need for environmental justice | Continue reading
Whilst HYPERISE has been in beta we’ve seen a lot of interesting use cases for hyper personalisation from our early users, who have had massive gains from implementing simple strategies at low cost. In this post we detail step by step how to implement the growth hack used by Chat … | Continue reading
One of Photoshop's most impressive features was just added to After Effects. Content-Aware Fill is now available for automatically removing unwanted | Continue reading
Sametab web extension | Continue reading