Unsolved Mysteries of Fundamental Physics

In this century, progress in fundamental physics has been slow. The Large Hadron Collider hasn’t yet found any surprises, attempts to directly detect dark matter have been unsuccessful, strin… | Continue reading


@johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com | 5 years ago

The forgotten computing system PLATO gave us the first digital public forum

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@slate.com | 5 years ago

Chinese Navy ship seen carrying railgun capable of firing hypersonic projectiles

An image purports to show a railgun mounted on the Chinese tank landing ship Haiyangshan. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 5 years ago

Show HN: CryptoTrader.Tax – An easy way to prepare cryptocurrency taxes

CryptoTrader.Tax is the easiest way to calculate trading gains and report your cryptocurrency taxes. | Continue reading


@cryptotrader.tax | 5 years ago

Small course corrections

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@manton.org | 5 years ago

The Bear Hidden in the Toblerone Chocolate Logo

On December 26, 2018, Stephanie in Edmonton, Canada was completely caught off guard when her young son asked her about the bear in the logo of the | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Chicago’s Deep Tunnel: The solution to urban flooding, or a cautionary tale?

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@slate.com | 5 years ago

MIT RadLab series (2011)

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@febo.com | 5 years ago

If Not Venture Capital, Then What?

Most of Silicon Valley is financed with venture capital, and its success there has made it attractive in other industries. The model isn't always transferrable: | Continue reading


@werd.io | 5 years ago

Crypto Theses for 2019

My thoughts on the state of crypto in 2018 and where we’re headed | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Three reasons that prevented me from shipping product

In this post I'm getting real about three reasons that prevented me to ship product. Learn from my story and prevent you from going through the same. | Continue reading


@shipharder.com | 5 years ago

Content isn't king

People in tech and media have been saying that ‘content is king’ for a long time - perhaps since the VHS/Betamax battle of the early 1980s, and perhaps longer. Content and access to content was a strategic lever for technology. I’m not sure how much this is still true.  Musi … | Continue reading


@ben-evans.com | 5 years ago

In Case You Missed Any of Our Holiday Coverage….

We get it: You had stuff on your plate! | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 5 years ago

Wake-up timer saves power for I.o.T. sensors

To save power, a cheap new timer can tell smart sensors when to wake up—no batteries required. | Continue reading


@futurity.org | 5 years ago

Fast Kubernetes Development with File Sync and Smart Rebuilds

What if I told you that you didn't have to rebuild your docker images every time you made a change? I'm happy to share with you a feature I added in the last release of skaffold that instantly syncs files to your running containers without any changes to your deployments | Continue reading


@matt-rickard.com | 5 years ago

Stephen Kelly: Refactor with Clang Tooling at code::dive 2018

I delivered a talk about writing a refactoring tool with Clang Tooling at code::dive in November. It was uploaded to YouTube today: The slides are available here and the code samples are here. This… | Continue reading


@steveire.wordpress.com | 5 years ago

Researchers Use 'Blacklist' Computing to Streamline Genetic Analysis

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@mountsinai.org | 5 years ago

Study Confirms: Global Quantum Internet Really Is Possible

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@sciencealert.com | 5 years ago

Apache Juneau 8.0.0 Released

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@mail-archives.apache.org | 5 years ago

Anatomy of a Hard Disk (2001)

A hard disk (also called a fixed disk) is the primary medium for storing information on computers, because it combines high capacity, relatively fast access and low price. A hard disk drive is made up of four basic components: a motor, a spinning platter, a pivoting arm with a re … | Continue reading


@computerworld.com | 5 years ago

Russia confirms its armed robot tank was in Syria

According to statements published today in Russia’s state-owned RIA Novosti, Deputy Minister of Defense Yuriy Borisov confirmed that the country tested its Uran-9 robots in Syria. | Continue reading


@c4isrnet.com | 5 years ago

Scientific sonnets: Duke team wins competition for poetry-generating algorithm

The Chronicle is Duke University's independent student newspaper where you can find campus news, Blue Devil sports coverage, features, opinions and breaking news online and in print four days a week. | Continue reading


@dukechronicle.com | 5 years ago

Fold-and-cut theorem

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@en.wikipedia.org | 5 years ago

Tech shares dive after hours on Apple warning

It's going to be a tough day for technology stocks on Thursday after Apple AAPL warned first quarter sales would be less than it previously expected. The Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ , which track the tech heavy Nasdaq-100 Index, lost 1.5 percent in after hours trading on Wednesday. A … | Continue reading


@finance.yahoo.com | 5 years ago

Unsure

Sometimes a fleeting glance can tell a story. It may be not be accurate but so what. It’s fun to try to figure out anyway. | Continue reading


@frogpondjournal.com | 5 years ago

Should you be a full-time software engineer or contractor?

In this article we’ll dive into the advantages and disadvantages the two most common career avenues for software engineers. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

How the Use of the Color Red Simultaneously Evokes a Sense of Both Life and Death in ‘Schindler’s List’

In a rufescent episode of Now You See It, host Jack Nugent explores the use of the color red to convey a variety of emotions that are all very passionate | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Blender turns 25 years old

25 years ago, the very first version of Blender started working, and Ton looks back on that time. What are your earliest memories of Blender? Ton writes: Today is the 25th birthday of Blender! During the xmas holidays of 1993, Ton Roosendaal started working on the Blender softwar … | Continue reading


@blendernation.com | 5 years ago

Raw string literals – restarting the discussion (Java)

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@mail.openjdk.java.net | 5 years ago

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@manton.org | 5 years ago

Snow White in Tiffany / Sim-Plex Design Studio

Sim-Plex is missioned to renovate a 482 sq.ft new home for Labyrinth and Simon. By using snow white storage cabinetry and ... | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 5 years ago

Why Black Hole Interiors Grow (Almost) Forever

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.The renowned physicist Leonard Susskind has identified a… | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 5 years ago

Which Countries Have Been Top of Mind in the US Over the Past Century?

The Pudding analyzed over 740,000 headlines from the NY Times since 1900 to determine which country the US was most interested in | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

Bert Box

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dino Ignacio (@ignaciogram) on Dec 31, 2018 at 9:54pm PST Dino Ignacio, creator of the legendary parody site | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors

Apple® today issued the following public letter to investors: To Apple investors: Today we are revising our guidance for Apple’s fiscal 2019 first qua | Continue reading


@businesswire.com | 5 years ago

Rape Culture and Epistemology [pdf]

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@philarchive.org | 5 years ago

This Is How a Society Implodes

How a Great and Mighty Empire Made Itself Low, Poor, and Little | Continue reading


@eand.co | 5 years ago

Blockchain, Crypto, and Hysteria

Distributed Ledger Technology in 2019 and Beyond | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors

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@apple.com | 5 years ago

PASETO Platform-Agnostic SEcurity TOkens

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@paseto.io | 5 years ago

Detective story: The path to pinpointing the romaine E. coli outbreak

The great romaine recall of 2018 is a testament to how difficult it is to pinpoint tainted produce from thousands of farms across the country, despite a growing network of local, state and federal health departments tapping technology like genome sequencing. | Continue reading


@seattletimes.com | 5 years ago

The 2019 Awards Consideration Post

For those of you casting about for things to nominate for various awards this year, here's what I have that's eligible. Best Novel Head On (April 2018; Tor Books; Patrick Nielsen Hayden, ed.) The Consuming Fire (October 2018; Tor Books; Patrick Nielsen Hayden, ed.) Best Related W … | Continue reading


@whatever.scalzi.com | 5 years ago

Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Reviews 2018

The Flaming Lips leader looks back on 2018, and gives us a preview of the band's new Tom Petty-inspired album. | Continue reading


@stereogum.com | 5 years ago

Apple stock trading halted; pending news imminent

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@mobile.twitter.com | 5 years ago

Building Reddit Datasets for ML

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@wayscript.com | 5 years ago

High Performance Website with AWS, Hugo and Terraform

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@dannylinden.de | 5 years ago

Art Galleries Are Broken

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@ungallery-alpha.firebaseapp.com | 5 years ago

“Smart uniforms” help schools in China monitor students

The GPS tracking pairs with facial recognition software to ensure kids stay in school. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 5 years ago