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Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)
When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,840 posts.
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Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking
Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Eye Tracking, Music Haptics, and Vocal Shortcuts.
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Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Today’s rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years, researchers have found through a detailed chemical analysis of ancient Antarctic ice. The findings, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide…
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Translation of Rust's core and alloc crates to Coq for formal verification
We continue our work on formal verification of Rust programs with our tool coq-of-rust, to translate Rust code to the formal proof system Coq. One of the limitation we had was the handling of primitive constructs from the standard library of Rust, like Option::unwrapordefault or all other primitive functions. For each…
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Parking reform legalized most of the new homes in Buffalo and Seattle (2023)
Studies from two very different cities showed the same result.
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Firefox search update
Innovation and privacy go hand in hand here at Mozilla. To continue developing features and products that resonate with our users, we’re adopting a new a
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Optimizing ClickHouse: Tactics that worked for us
At LaunchDarkly, we ingest nearly 100 terabytes of observability data from our customers every month.
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New work extends the thermodynamic theory of computation
In a paper published in Physical Review X on May 13, a quartet of physicists and computer scientists expand the modern theory of the thermodynamics of computation. By combining approaches from statistical physics and computer science, the researchers introduce mathematical equations that reveal the minimum and maximum…
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Bossware is a big legal risk
Monitoring employees in the name of productivity or security can cause a lot more problems than it solves.
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New gel breaks down alcohol in the body
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a protein-based gel that breaks down alcohol in the gastrointestinal tract without harming the body. In the future, people who take the gel could reduce the harmful and intoxicating effects of alcohol.
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HBase Deprecation at Pinterest
Alberto Ordonez Pereira | Senior Staff Software Engineer; Lianghong Xu | Senior Manager, Engineering;
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Claude is now available in Europe
Claude, Anthropic's trusted AI assistant, is now available for people and businesses across Europe.
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Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite
Discover the power of Snapdragon X Elite with upstreamed Linux kernel support. Explore areas of focus and unlock new potential with Snapdragon Linux today.
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Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken the exascale barrier
At ISC 2024, Intel announces Aurora is the fastest AI supercomputer, has broken the exascale barrier, and details the importance of an open ecosystem in HPC and AI.
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Release of Fugaku-LLM – a large language model trained on supercomputer Fugaku
Release of “Fugaku-LLM” – a large language model trained on the supercomputer “Fugaku”
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New mRNA cancer vaccine triggers immune response to malignant brain tumor
In a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients, an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida quickly reprogrammed the immune…
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Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
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Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
Apple and Google have teamed up to deliver support for unwanted Bluetooth tracking alerts in iOS and Android.
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GPT-4o
We’re announcing GPT-4 Omni, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.
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Falcon 2
TII launched a second iteration of its renowned large language model (LLM) – Falcon 2.
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GPUs Go Brrr
how make gpu fast?
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Ancient Egyptian Stone-Drilling (1983)
<p>More than most technical procedures in the ancient world, drilling of hard stone such as quartz and granite has evoked […]</p>
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Lessons learned reinventing the Python notebook
Designing a notebook that can be shared as an app, run as a script, versioned with git, and more
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Flatcar: OS Innovation with Systemd-Sysext
The current state of systemd-sysext in Flatcar and the next steps
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Jim Simons has died
It is with great sadness that the Simons Foundation announces the death of its co-founder and chair emeritus, James Harris Simons, on May 10, 2024, at the age of 86, in New York City. Jim (as he…
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Unix and Multics (2019)
Story from the development of the Multics operating system. Unix, our famous child.
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VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding
Posted by Long Zhao, Senior Research Scientist, and Ting Liu, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research An astounding number of videos are av...