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C11 and C17 Standard Support Arriving in MSVC
Please see our Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 release notes for more of our latest features. Update: Windows 10 SDK version 2104 has been
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,277 posts.
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iOS 14 is available today
iOS 14 reimagines the iPhone experience, delivering a major update to the Home Screen, widgets, and App Clips.
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Oculus Quest 2
Shop the Meta Quest 2 all-in-one VR headset and immerse yourself within new virtual worlds. Explore everything that our second gen VR device has to offer.
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The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new Dropbox Plus
A few weeks ago, we released a whole bunch of new features to Dropbox Plus, our paid plan for personal users. While we started as a storage company, we‘ve grown to be a hub to manage your digital life. About 150 people worked on this launch: engineers, product managers, designers, copywriters, and many more.
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Changes to Fusion 360 for Personal Use
A comprehensive guide to Fusion for personal use changes — what's changing and what is remaining the same.
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Pine64 September update
We have been fortunate to welcome many new members into our ranks over the past 30 days. This is in large part due to the continued interest in the Pinebook Pro and PineTab, which have just shipped, as well as the ongoing massive demand for the PinePhone. By my estimate, come December we will have shipped more…
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Go’s Major Versioning Sucks – From a Fanboy
Learn Go (Golang) by writing real code in this interactive course. Practice structs, interfaces, errors, concurrency, and idiomatic backend patterns.
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How Internet Archive Is Ensuring Permanent Access to Open Access Journals
Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles-- the next 5 million is getting harder Open Access journals, such as New Theology Review (ISSN: 0896-4297) and Open Journal of Hematology (ISSN: 2075-907X), made their research articles available for free online for years. With a quick…
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Pebble: A RocksDB Inspired Key-Value Store Written in Go
Today we’re introducing Pebble, a RocksDB-inspired and RocksDB compatible key-value store written in Go that brings greater stability to CockroachDB.
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Apple Fitness+
Apple today unveiled Fitness+, the first fitness experience built for Apple Watch, arriving later this year.
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Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews
I recently did 60+ technical interviews in 30 days. Here are some red flags I observed among the companies I spoke to.
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Web Performance Profiling: Google.com
How is Google so fast? It’s so fast we take it for granted. It feels instant from the time you search to when results are displayed. What can we learn abou...
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We View Nikola’s Response as a Tacit Admission of Securities Fraud
Milton should be working with the formerly big 3. He is just another fraud like musk…
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Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language
Original English version available below. We are thankful to 株式会社HYPERIA and all the members of the Zig community that helped us with the Japanese translation.
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New T4g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2
December 10, 2020 – Post updated for the extension of the T4g free-trial until March 31, 2021. During the free-trial period, customers who run a t4g.micro instance will automatically get 750 free hours per month deducted from their bill during each month. T4g free-trial will be available in addition to the existing…
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Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline
Some ideas for socially valuable research topics across 19 fields.
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Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indicator of possible life?
An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Jane Greaves of Cardiff University, today announced the discovery of a rare molecule – phosphine – in the ...
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Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. today announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund in a transaction valued at $40 billion.
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Microsoft Statement on TikTok
ByteDance let us know today they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft. We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests. To do this, we would have made significant changes to ensure the service met the highest standards for…
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GPUDirect Storage: A Direct Path Between Storage and GPU Memory
As AI and HPC datasets continue to increase in size, the time spent loading data for a given application begins to place a strain on the total application’s performance. When considering end-to-end…
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Nature's Decline Unprecedented; Species Extinction Rates Accelerating (2019)
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Time for Global Action for People and Planet
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Your Phone Is Your Castle
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Researchers exploit HTTP/2, WPA3 protocols to stage ‘timeless timing’ attacks
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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Deno 1.4
Deno 1.4 adds support for the web standard WebSocket API, deno run --watch, and integrated test coverage. This is the largest feature release yet.