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YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify the age in EU (2020)
We’ve taken important steps to make YouTube a safer place for families. We’re announcing a continuation of these efforts.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,693 posts.
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Apple announces first states to adopt driver’s licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet
Apple is working with states across the country to roll out the ability for their residents to add their driver’s license or state ID to Wallet.
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CSS Nesting Module
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
A glance at this year's OSDI program shows that Operating Systems are a small niche topic for this conference, not even meriting their own full session. This is unfortunate because good OS design has always been driven by the underlying hardware, and right now that hardware is almost unrecognizable from ten years ago…
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PostgreSQL Subtransactions Considered Harmful
PostgreSQL subtransactions (nested transactions) may cause multiple performance and scalability issues: higher rates of XID growth and higher risks of transaction ID wraparound, performance degradation when more than PGPROC_MAX_CACHED_SUBXIDS (64) are used in a session, drastic performance slowdowns when…
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Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours
New Australian surveillance bill enables police to hack your device, collect or delete your data, and take over your social media accounts.
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Perfect pitch study: Why can’t we identify music notes as well as colors?
Neuroscientists explore how people with absolute pitch process sounds
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Docker is updating and extending our product subscriptions
Docker announces significant upgrades to its subscription plans, delivering more value, flexibility, and tools for customers of all sizes.
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A remote island's battle against seabird-killing ants (2015)
At the world’s remotest nesting colony, the Crazy Ant Strike Team beats back its seabird-killing enemy with spray guns, poison... and cat food.
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Windows 11 available on October 5
Today, we are thrilled to announce Windows 11 will start to become available on October 5, 2021. On this day, the free upgrade to Windows 11 will begin rolling out to eligible Windows 10 PCs and PCs that come pre-loaded with Windows 11 will start to
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Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy+ (LCOE+)
Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy+ is a widely cited report that analyzes the cost competitiveness of renewables, energy storage, and system considerations.
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Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
Is Google Analytics still useful and how accurate are its stats? How much data is missing from Google Analytics due to adblockers and privacy-friendly browsers?
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Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic
Apple has acquired Primephonic, the renowned classical music streaming service that offers an outstanding listening experience.
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FCC Temporary Waiver Permits Higher Symbol Rate Data for Hurricane Ida Traffic
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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Software Development Waste
I've looked back at the end of every software project I've ever been on and thought, "If I'd known then what I know now, I'd have been done in half the time." Despite this, I've never thought carefully about exactly where all the time went and why so much of it felt wasted.
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A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents
The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has become a majority since U.S. coronavirus cases began spreading early this year.
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New study examines ‘Achilles heel’ of cancer tumours
Ranked among the world’s top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine. Across British Columbia, more than 12,000 faculty and staff are training the next generation of doctors and health care…
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Role-based access control like it was meant to be
Learn about role-based access control, its use cases and benefits.
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Corporations Are Crappy Archivists
PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. An assortment of microcomputers, minicomputers, terminals, programmable calculators, and arcade machines are also available…
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For First Time, Half of Americans Favor Defending Taiwan If China Invades
2021 Chicago Council Survey data show a majority of Americans support a range of US policies towards Taiwan: recognition as an independent country, inclusion in international organizations, and a US-Taiwan free trade agreement.
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Fastest table sort in the West – Redesigning DuckDB's sort
DuckDB, a free and open-source analytical data management system, has a new highly efficient parallel sorting implementation that can sort much more data than fits in main memory.
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Automatically Light Up a Sign When Your Webcam Is in Use
At the beginning of COVID lockdown and multiple people working from home it was obvious there was a need to let others know when I'm in a meeting or on a live webcam. So naturally it took me one year to finally do something about it. Now I'm here to share what I learned along the way.
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Phoenix 1.6, RC0 released
Phoenix 1.6 is out! This release ships with new authentication and mailer generators, a new HEEx template engine, and more.
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Turning satellite imagery into wall art
See how we go from raw satellite imagery, clouds and all, to beautiful wall art.
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The QSBS Tax Exemption: A Valuable Benefit for Startup Founders and Builders
The Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) tax exemption may allow you to avoid up to 100% of the capital gains taxes incurred when you sell a stake in a startup or small business. Here we discuss how you can apply this exemption and what you need to do to qualify.
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High Performance Correctly Rounded Math Libraries for 32-Bit Floating Point
Everyone uses math libraries. Surprisingly, mainstream math libraries do not produce correct results for several thousands of inputs. Developers are seldom aware of them, which affects reproducibil…
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“Does induced demand apply to bike lanes?” and other questions
And what this tells us about what the common buzzword really means.