U.S. Intelligence Is Actually Bad. Very Bad

Patrick ARMSTRONG: "Shallow bench"? More of an echo chamber in which people at the top expect to hear what they want to hear and are told it; reinforced by a news media full of people paid to believe what they believe to be paid. | Continue reading


@strategic-culture.org | 5 years ago

Baghdad Battery

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@en.wikipedia.org | 5 years ago

2or3 – Christian Community App (Android)

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@play.google.com | 5 years ago

Hardware Security Threat Rising

Rambus' CTO zeroes in on why hardware is now a target and what's driving this shift. | Continue reading


@semiengineering.com | 5 years ago

Tokyo Medical University didn’t want too many women. So it lowered their grades

Tokyo Medical University officials systemically reduced the entrance exam scores of female applicant | Continue reading


@asahi.com | 5 years ago

How to Respond to Feedback You Disagree With

Think that criticism is totally off base? Here's what to say. | Continue reading


@themuse.com | 5 years ago

Performing meaningless rituals boosts our self-control

The results are promising for anyone who would like to boost their self-control, but many aspects of rituals remain unexplored. By Tom Witkowski | Continue reading


@digest.bps.org.uk | 5 years ago

Chrome 69 Beta Released with AV1 Decode

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@phoronix.com | 5 years ago

Ontario government defends move to cancel basic income pilot project

The news has spurred backlash from the opposition parties, who say the government is cutting support from those who need it most. | Continue reading


@globalnews.ca | 5 years ago

Common Webpage Design Mistakes

Simple layout and design tips to help you create a stunning webpage | Continue reading


@blog-en.tilda.cc | 5 years ago

Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple (2016)

What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand. Rarely does it regain its former glory. Here’s why. Mi… | Continue reading


@steveblank.com | 5 years ago

Thursday's parting shot

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 5 years ago

A Tour of General Magic Prototype Devices

As a self-appointed, unofficial historian of General Magic lore (and former employee) I have quite a collection of Magic Cap devices. Photos of my complete collection are on my web site, and I'm … | Continue reading


@cake.co | 5 years ago

Inside the amazing company that invented the iPhone–two decades too early

In the mid-90s, General Magic was one of the coolest companies in the Silicon Valley. Goldman Sachs led its public offering based on the team, vision, and fairy dust companies like Apple and Sony … | Continue reading


@cake.co | 5 years ago

Pack your bags

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 5 years ago

Appealing Fictions

“What was the happiest day of your life? The documentary How to Live Forever asks that innocent question to a centenarian who offered an amazing response. “Armistice Day” she said, referring to the 1918 agreement that ended World War I. “Why?” the producer asks. “Because we knew … | Continue reading


@collaborativefund.com | 5 years ago

A police officer shot an armed homeowner during a break-in. Who's at fault?

A Colorado case demonstrates the conflict between the right of civilians to arm themselves and the authority of police to use deadly force. | Continue reading


@nbcnews.com | 5 years ago

Birds Learn Safety from Other Kinds of Birds

Birds become good at avoiding danger by eavesdropping on the alarm calls of other birds—and the learning occurs without even seeing their peers or predators. Christopher Intagliata reports.  | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 5 years ago

FCC sides with Google Fiber over Comcast with new pro-competition rule

One Touch Make Ready prevents big ISPs from delaying competitors' construction. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 years ago

Marketing Cloud April 23, 2018 Security Issue

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@help.salesforce.com | 5 years ago

SCAG RTP/SCS: The 500B dollar plan to turn California into megaregion

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@scagrtpscs.net | 5 years ago

SciPipe – Go-based library for complex and dynamic pipelines in machine learning

Background: The complex nature of biological data has driven the development of specialized software tools. Scientific workflow management systems simplify the assembly of such tools into pipelines and assist with job automation and aids reproducibility of analyses. Many contempo … | Continue reading


@biorxiv.org | 5 years ago

Marketers' belief in numbers

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@campaignlive.co.uk | 5 years ago

Planet Money: The Postal Illuminati

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@choice.npr.org | 5 years ago

What is new in ES2018?

This article will give you an overview on the new features of ES2018. First, we | Continue reading


@zsoltnagy.eu | 5 years ago

The Most Senseless Environmental Crime of the 20th Century (2013)

Fifty years ago 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why. Inside the most irrational environmental crime of the century. | Continue reading


@psmag.com | 5 years ago

Tesla short sellers are sitting on a paper loss of nearly $2B after rally

Investors who are betting that Tesla Inc. shares are poised for a fall were sitting on a more than $1 billion paper loss Thursday, after the stock rallied more than 11% following its latest quarterly earnings. | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 5 years ago

SRE: Debugging Simple Memory Leaks in Go

Memory leaks are a class of bugs where memory is not released even after it is no longer needed. They are often explicit, and highly… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Lab-Grown Lungs

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@aktu.io | 5 years ago

DiscoverDev - curated engineering articles for Fri, 03 Aug 2018

The list of curated resources and software engineering blog posts for 2018-08-03 | Continue reading


@discoverdev.io | 5 years ago

Questions for Evaluating a Distributed Database

When I first started building TiDB with my co-founders, we encountered countless challenges, pitfalls, and critical design choices that could have made or broken the project. To build an enterprise-grade distributed database like TiDB from scratch, we have to constantly make diff … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 5 years ago

Show HN: The First Print Collection from Compelling Science Fiction -Kickstarter

The first-ever print collection from compellingsciencefiction.com. The best stories, in beautiful bound form. | Continue reading


@kickstarter.com | 5 years ago

Affleck/Damon Win Package on Multi-Million $ Theft of McDonald’s Monopoly Game

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is poised to win the hot lit property in the marketplace at the moment, a giant Happy Meal that everyone wanted. Ben Affleck is attached to direct and Matt Damon to star in a true-cr… | Continue reading


@deadline.com | 5 years ago

Examining Gender and Race Bias in Sentiment Analysis Systems

The study determines whether sentiment analysis systems display inappropriate human biases. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Show HN: Soundtrack to My Life – Handmade playlists that aren't boring

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@soundtracktomy.life | 5 years ago

North China Plain Threatened by Heatwaves Due to Climate Change and Irrigation

Irrigation increases the intensity of heatwaves over the North China Plain but how this will be exacerbated by climate change has not been quantified. Here the authors show that irrigation enhances magnitude of extreme wet-bulb temperature and intensity of heatwaves in this regio … | Continue reading


@nature.com | 5 years ago

US Congress Passes Bill Banning Dahua and Hikvision

A major blow to the Chinese mega-manufacturers. | Continue reading


@ipvm.com | 5 years ago

The Hacker's Diet (2005)

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@fourmilab.ch | 5 years ago

Why App Academy’s Bootcamp Prep is a better value than cheaper alternatives

In 2015, there were half-a-million open positions in the software development and engineering fields. Tech companies, in other words, couldn’t hire people fast enough. Yet even with 60,000 Computer Science majors graduating that year in | Continue reading


@blog.appacademy.io | 5 years ago

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 5 years ago

App Academy Bootcamp Prep curriculum: what you’ll learn week-by-week

App Academy’s Bootcamp Prep has placed 100 percent of graduates at the best coding bootcamps in the country because of its award-winning curriculum. It’s also the only prep course with a money-back guarantee. But what | Continue reading


@blog.appacademy.io | 5 years ago

Apache Spark building on Scala 2.12

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@issues.apache.org | 5 years ago

GEB lecture

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@ocw.mit.edu | 5 years ago

Facebook puts $4.5 million more into news support with a membership accelerator and News Match cash

Though local news will be a focus, this program won't be exclusively for local news publishers. | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 5 years ago

Twilio Announces Twilio API for WhatsApp

Twilio has announced the Twilio API for WhatsApp which allows developers to integrate with applications nearly every messaging channel via one Twilio Messaging API. Among the messaging channels the API supports are SMS, MMS, Facebook Messenger, RCS, LINE and the newly added API f … | Continue reading


@programmableweb.com | 5 years ago

Junk brain food diet

We are what we eat, that’s pretty obvious with food. If your eat too much, or if you eat unhealthy food often, your body is not going to… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

To Be Continuous Ep. #46, Microsoft Acquires GitHub

In episode 46 of To Be Continuous, Paul and Edith discuss Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub. Is it a good thing? What will be the impact of such a massive deal on companies and developers in the devtools space? | Continue reading


@heavybit.com | 5 years ago

Filmmaker Learns About the Healing Power of Whistling Through People He Met at a Competition

Filmmaker Ien Chi of the 2011 film "Tick Tock", decided that he wanted to "ditch school to whistle", basically taking time off to participate in an | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago