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CS50, Harvard’s Largest Class Expands Its Line Up of Courses
CS50 launches three new courses that go beyond the original course and teach Python, Javascript, React, and Game Development
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How Property Taxes Shape Our Cities
Taxation is a powerful planning tool, whether we want it to be or not.
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What Can I Do About Bufferbloat?
Bufferbloat is high latency (or lag) that occurs when there’s other traffic on your network. This means that your network isn’t always responsive - it’s wasting your time.
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With EFF’s help, language teacher responds to threat over ‘invalid’ patent
Foreign languages have been taught, and studied, for thousands of years. People who teach languages are the last folks that should be dealing with patent threat letters—but incredibly, that’s exactly what has happened to Mihalis Eleftheriou. Hodder and Stoughton, a large British publisher, has sent...
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Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and LambdaEdge
A few months ago we released a new way for people to run serverless Javascript called Cloudflare Workers. We believe Workers is the fastest way to execute serverless functions, but lets prove it.
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Digicert Withdraws from the CA Security Council
DigiCert is electing to withdraw from the CA Security Council (CASC) as we believe CASC is moving in a direction that DigiCert does not support. Read more.
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C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio
In Visual Studio 2017 release 15.8 Preview 3 we’re announcing support for Just My Code stepping for C++. In addition to previously supported callstack
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The Japanese Calendar’s Y2K Moment
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Instead of ‘finding your passion,’ try developing it, Stanford scholars say
The belief that interests arrive fully formed and must simply be “found” can lead people to limit their pursuit of new fields and give up when they encounter challenges, according to a new Stanford study.
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EFF Sues to Invalidate FOSTA, an Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law
We are asking a court to declare the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017 (“FOSTA”) unconstitutional and prevent it from being enforced. The law was written so poorly that it actually criminalizes a substantial amount of protected speech and, according to experts,...
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Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting
In this post I’ll discuss how a landmark piece of privacy research was widely misinterpreted, how this misinterpretation deterred the development of privacy technologies rather than spurring it, how a recent paper set the record straight, and what we can learn from all this. The research in question is about browser…
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An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python
Amazon Apps & Services Developer Portal
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Crystal 0.25.1 released
Crystal 0.25.1 has been released!
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AntiPolygraph.org appears to have been “de-listed” from Google on key searches
Search DuckDuckGo for “polygraph” and you’ll find AntiPolygraph.org, which hosts more documentation on polygraphs than any other site on the Internet, in the top 10 results. The same is true for searches on “polygraph” with Microsoft’s Bing search engine (in the United States), with Russia’s Yandex search engine, and…
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Microsoft Releases 125M Building Footprints in the US as Open Data
Bing has made very significant investments in the area of deep learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence to support a number of different search scenarios. The Bing Maps team has…
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A Bank for Student Hackers
It was February 2nd, 2018 at 2 PM when I got a call from Jake Reilly, the founder of Kapaa High School's Hack Club, our first chapter in…
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The Constrained Directional Enhancement Filter in AV1
AV1 is a new general-purpose video codec developed by the Alliance for Open Media. The alliance began development of the new codec using Google’s VPX codecs, Cisco’s Thor codec, and ...
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Keras vs PyTorch
Keras and PyTorch are both excellent choices for your first deep learning framework. Learn how they differ and which one will suit your needs better.
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Kubernetes 1.11 includes In-Cluster Service Load Balancing and CoreDNS
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.11, our second release of 2018! Today’s release continues to advance maturity, scalability, and flexibility of Kubernetes, marking significant progress on features that the team has been hard at work on over the last year. This newest version graduates key…
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AI Can Detect Illnesses in Human Breath
Researchers from Loughborough University, Western General Hospital, the University of Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh Cancer Centre in the United Kingdom, recently developed a deep learning-based method…
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Python 3.7 released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Mathematician-M.D. claims to have solved the 110-year-old Lindelöf hypothesis
A completely new approach suggests the validity of the 110-year-old Lindelöf hypothesis, opening up the possibilities of new discoveries in quantum computing, number theory and cybersecurity
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Exposing the secret Office 365 detailed activity logs and forensics tool
An ethical crisis in the digital forensics industry came to a head last week with the release of new details on Microsoft’s undocumented “Activities” API. A previously unknown trove of access and activity logs held by Microsoft allows investigators to track Office 365 mailbox activity in minute detail. Following a…
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Self-Supervised Tracking via Video Colorization
Posted by Carl Vondrick, Research Scientist, Machine Perception Tracking objects in video is a fundamental problem in computer vision, essential to...
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Supercharging the Git Commit Graph
Have you ever run gitk and waited a few seconds before the window appears? Have you struggled to visualize your commit history into a sane order of