Very risky business: The pros and cons of insurance companies embracing artificial intelligence

It's a new day not very far in the future. You wake up; your wristwatch has recorded how long you've slept, and monitored your heartbeat and breathing. You drive to work; car sensors track your speed and braking. You pick up some breakfast on your way, paying electronically; the … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

How to increase your lottery winnings (and succeed in business) by being contrary

No rational person would ever enter the lottery. The chance of picking the right six numbers and hitting the jackpot in the UK's Lotto is approximately one in 14m. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Tree Tabs – A faster and more feature-rich alternative to Tree Style Tab

Download Tree Tabs for Firefox. You can manage your tabs in a tree structure.Themes: https://goo.gl/UtQ5vGSome of many features:- Drag&drop tabs to make trees- Select multiple tabs at once using ctrl or shift keys.- Search tabs using search tool | Continue reading


@addons.mozilla.org | 5 years ago

Building wind turbines where they're not wanted brings down property values

The question of whether or not wind turbines have decreased property values in Ontario has been a point of contention in recent years, and fuelled by the rapid expansion of the wind energy industry following the implementation of the Green Energy Act in 2009. (The current provinc … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Show HN: GitExplorer – Find the Git commands you need

GitExplorer: Find the right git commands you need without digging through the web | Continue reading


@gitexplorer.com | 5 years ago

Dems demand equal time as Trump plans a prime time speech; Colbert's reaction; Cooper's message; inside CBS News; Kimmel's response to the shutdown

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@mailchi.mp | 5 years ago

Show HN: Thoughtfully crafted and easy-to-use color palettes

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@culrs.com | 5 years ago

Get free Windows Server eval license from Microsoft (180 days)

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@microsoft.com | 5 years ago

Artificial neural networks make life easier for hearing aid users

For people with hearing loss, it can very difficult to understand and separate voices in noisy environments. This problem may soon be history thanks to a new groundbreaking algorithm that is designed to recognise and separate voices efficiently in unknown sound environments. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Winning on Amazon: Here are 3 strategies that can help

Ask hard questions about your product assortment and get yourself ready for the 'One Vendor' change on the Brand Registry. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 5 years ago

TikTok: the world's most valuable startup that you've never heard of

Anticipation has long been building about the impending takeover of the tech world by Chinese digital giants like Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and JD. Efforts so far, however, have been largely disappointing. The most popular messaging app in the West is WhatsApp, not WeChat; people … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

All Sand on Earth Could Be Made of Star Stuff

Silica, a common ingredient in sand, concrete and glass, may have its origins in supernovae | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 5 years ago

Existentialism: A guiding philosophy for tackling climate change in cities?

The evidence of human-induced climate change is clear. At minimum, climate change will cost us dearly due to the economic impacts and lives lost from the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events. At worst, it presents an existential threat. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Use stackoverflow, and use it well

Dear new developer, Stackoverflow (SO) is great for three different kinds of developers (and someone can be all three over time): those who are looking for answers, usually via Google (searchers) t… | Continue reading


@letterstoanewdeveloper.com | 5 years ago

Deep Learning of 7 PHP Predefined Interfaces

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@tutorialdocs.com | 5 years ago

PHP Microservices: REST vs. Socket Performance Benchmarks

When it comes to microservices, the most common and advocated method for communicating with a service is a RESTful API. And REST is a… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Killing the Walk Monster

My BICFest 2018 lecture overview of the movement system I developed for The Witness | Continue reading


@caseymuratori.com | 5 years ago

Yi Xuan Lee Has Been Awarded with the Famed Golden A’ Design Award

A' Design Award and Competition is pleased to announce that the design Anemone by Yi Xuan Lee became winner of the famous Golden A' Design | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 5 years ago

IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer

IBM's sleek-looking Q System One is its first commercial quantum computer. It will be available for clients to access over the internet | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 5 years ago

Holographic teachers were supposed to be part of our future. What happened?

Cast your mind back to the turn of last century. Experts predicted that by now classrooms would no longer feature human teachers, and holographic virtual entities would deliver lessons instead. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Envious of 5G hype, cable cos. unveil potentially confusing “10G” trademark

But we're still waiting for 1Gbps upload speeds. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 years ago

Scientists move quantum optic networks a step closer to reality

Scientists have moved quantum optic networks a step closer to reality. The ability to precisely control the interactions of light and matter at the nanoscale could help such a network transmit larger amounts of data more quickly and securely than an electrical network. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

[Interview] How Neural Networks and ML Are Making Games More Interesting

Machine learning and neural networks are hot topics in many tech areas, and the game dev is one of them. There such new technologies are… | Continue reading


@hackernoon.com | 5 years ago

Src//styled.js – stairway to Styled-Component's CSS-in-JS heaven

Take a deep dive into the practical entry file to the Styled-Components library. The src/../styled.js file works hard to provide you an API that's tons of fun to work with. | Continue reading


@dev.to | 5 years ago

Is ARM Hungry Enough to Eat Intel's Favorite Pie?

Note: This entry is a follow-up of the Breaking Down Memory Walls blog. Please make sure that you have read it if you want to fully understand all the benchmarks performed here.At the beginning of t | Continue reading


@blosc.org | 5 years ago

Researchers discover multilayer band gap using its own technology

Korean researchers at DGIST have proven the existence of the upper band gap of atomic rhenium disulfide (ReS2) layers in the conductive atomic structure of ionization energy. The work resulted from a joint study with Professor Jong-hyun Ahn's research team at Yonsei University. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

GPUs Gather Force in Large-Scale Weather Forecasting

As the list of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet reveal, GPU accelerated high performance computing is alive in well across many technical | Continue reading


@nextplatform.com | 5 years ago

Linux IPv6 HOWTO

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@tldp.org | 5 years ago

Balena releases 26k new container base images for IoT and Edge Computing

Some times combinatorial explosion is your friend. Today we are proud to announce the release of over 26,000 new base images under the balenalib namespace over on DockerHub. Over the last 4 years we've been maintaining and nurturing the most comprehensive set of base images for … | Continue reading


@balena.io | 5 years ago

Top events for Startups in Europe you can’t miss in 2019

Being a Startup Geek isn’t easy when there are so many great events to attend. But is it worth booking a bus or plane, setting some time in your calendar... Read more | Continue reading


@itgenerator.com | 5 years ago

Harvesting phone numbers and email addresses from GitHub

Code-sharing site GitHub automatically sends email notifications to users. If you’ve commented on an issue, you’ll get an email each time there’s an update. That’s pretty ha… | Continue reading


@shkspr.mobi | 5 years ago

Study shows single atoms can make more efficient catalysts

Catalysts are chemical matchmakers: They bring other chemicals close together, increasing the chance that they'll react with each other and produce something people want, like fuel or fertilizer. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Do We Need JVM’s PhantomReference in .NET?

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@tooslowexception.com | 5 years ago

History and Philosophy of Neural Networks (2015)

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@researchgate.net | 5 years ago

Designing an adblocker for radio and podcasts

We present an innovative technique to detect ads in radio streams and podcasts, featuring machine learning and Shazam-like detection. It works pretty well! | Continue reading


@adblockradio.com | 5 years ago

Unlimited private repositories now available to free GitHub users

Previously private repos were exclusive to paid accounts. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 years ago

Deep low-frequency earthquakes indicate migration of magmatic fluids beneath Laacher See

A German study shows that magma could rise from the upper mantle into the middle and upper crust beneath the Laacher See Volcano (Rhineland-Palatinate). This is the result of a study conducted by the Seismological Survey of Southwest Germany (Erdbebendienst Südwest), together wit … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Green catalysts with Earth-abundant metals accelerate production of bio-based plastic

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have developed and analyzed a novel catalyst for the oxidation of 5-hydroxymethyl furfural, which is crucial for generating new raw materials that replace the classic non-renewable ones used for making many plastics. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

'Flipped' metal oxide cage can sort carbon dioxide from carbon monoxide

How do you separate carbon dioxide from carbon monoxide? One way, showcased by a new study from Kanazawa University, is to use a bowl of vanadium. More precisely, a hollow, spherical cluster of vanadate molecules can discriminate between CO and CO2, allowing potential uses in CO2 … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Tackling greenhouse gases

The images are ubiquitous: A coastal town decimated by another powerful hurricane, satellite images showing shrinking polar ice caps, a school of dead fish floating on the surface of warming waters, swaths of land burnt by an out-of-control wildfire. These dire portrayals share a … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

How writing technology shaped classical thinking

The Roman poet Lucretius' epic work "De rerum natura," or "On the Nature of Things," is the oldest surviving scientific treatise written in Latin. Composed around 55 B.C.E., the text is a lengthy piece of contrarianism. Lucreutius was in the Epicurean school of philosophy: He wan … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

New way of switching exotic properties on and off in topological material

A weird feature of certain exotic materials allows electrons to travel from one surface of the material to another as if there were nothing in between. Now, researchers have shown that they can switch this feature on and off by toggling a material in and out of a stable topologic … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

New complex carbohydrate discovered in barley

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@phys.org | 5 years ago

A Little Lady with a Giant Prop House

This is embarrassing to admit now, but when we first saw Suri Bieler pop her head out from behind a doorway as we called out “anybody here?” in the entryway of a 95,000 sq. foot warehouse in Queens, we assumed she might be an office assistant; maybe a weekend volunteer. Because t … | Continue reading


@messynessychic.com | 5 years ago

Elimination of All Bad Local Minima in Deep Learning

In this paper, we theoretically prove that we can eliminate all suboptimallocal minima by adding one neuron per output unit to any deep neural network,for multi-class classification, binary... | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 5 years ago

Medical scanner helps to unlock the mysteries of a giant prehistoric marine reptile

A nearly metre-long skull of a giant fossil marine ichthyosaur found in a farmer's field more than 60 years ago has been studied for the first time. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 5 years ago

Lots of Scientists Won Office in 2018, But...

... we need more to step up in 2019 and beyond | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 5 years ago

Your Fitness Resolution Might Be Easier If You're Rich

The availability of exercise venues reflects broader divides of class and geography. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago