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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,170 posts.
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Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing
New research from Washington University in St. Louis confirms that the brain tunes itself to a point where it is as excitable as it can be without tipping into disorder, similar to a phase transition. The new research from Keith Hengen, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, is published Oct. 7 in the…
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Drugs that tamp down inflammation in the brain could slow cognitive decline
Leaky filtration system in brain contributes to cognitive dysfunction in aging as well as disease
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Android’s Commitment to Kotlin
When we announced Kotlin as a supported language for Android, there was a tremendous amount of excitement among developers. Since then, there has been a steady increase in the number of developers using Kotlin. Today, we’re proud to say nearly 60% of the top 1,000 Android apps contain Kotlin code, with more and more…
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JIT and Ruby's MJIT
If you already know lots about JIT in general and Ruby’s MJIT in particular… you may not learn much new in this post. But in case you wonder “what is JIT?” or “what is MJIT?” or “what’s different about Ruby’s JIT?” or perhaps “why in the world did they decide to do THAT?”… Well then, perhaps I can
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Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch
Brave 1.0 was released on November 13th and received very positive press reviews, and also saw a surge in user adoption. Brave went from 8.7 million monthly active users in October to 10.4 million MAU at the end of November, a 19% increase across all platforms. This represents a doubling of Brave's MAU in one year…
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Building a Search Engine from Scratch
A whirlwind tour of the big ideas powering our web search
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Building AI that can master complex cooperative games with hidden information
To advance research on AI that can understand others’ points of view and collaborate effectively, Facebook AI has developed a bot that sets a new state of the art in Hanabi, a card game in which all players work together.
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Why ISOC sold .ORG to VCs
It has been widely reported, and generally criticized, that the Internet Society (ISOC) has entered into an agreement to sell Public Interest Registry (PIR) which operates the .ORG TLD, to a VC firm called Ethos Capital for a reported $1.135 Billion dollars. I've disclosed in previous issues of #AxisOfEasy that I…
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Business Models
Agency for great inventors
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Cloud kitchens – commercial facilities built to produce food for delivery
Known as shared kitchens, ghost kitchens, or virtual kitchens, cloud kitchens are commercial facilities purpose-built to produce food for delivery.
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W3C recommends WebAssembly
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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Elementary OS 5.1 Hera
A major update on a solid foundation
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A New Search Engine
Cliqz Journey
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Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
Access the latest perspectives on the energy transition with samples of research reports and data-driven analysis from BNEF experts.
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Is Arm ready for server dominance?
AWS announced new servers with Arm-powered Graviton2 processors. How do they stack up vs. x86-powered instances, and is Arm ready for server domination?
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Firefox 71: A year-end arrival
Please welcome Firefox 71 to the stage! This time around, we have a plethora of new developer tools features including the web socket message inspector, console multi-line editor mode, log ...
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How to Make Remote a Success
Insights and strategies for making a successful remote environment for your team and company, from the perspective of Bearer's CTO.
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A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments
Troubleshooting in Kubernetes can be a daunting task. In this article you will learn how to diagnose issues in Pods, Services and Ingress.
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Each Country's Share of CO2 Emissions
Which 20 countries emit the most carbon dioxide? You may be surprised.
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DeepSpeech 0.6
The Machine Learning team at Mozilla continues work on DeepSpeech, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine which aims to make speech recognition technology and trained models openly available to developers. ...
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Proxmox VE 6.1 – Open-Source virtualization platform
Latest announcements for Proxmox.
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Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
We launched the first generation (A1) of Arm-based, Graviton-powered EC2 instances at re:Invent 2018. Since that launch, thousands of our customers have used them to run many different types of scale-out workloads including containerized microservices, web servers, and data/log processing. The Operating System Vendors…
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Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B
Get the latest Carbonite news, products, and solutions.
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Using WebAssembly from .NET with Wasmtime
How to use Wasmtime in a .NET application to load and execute WebAssembly code.
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Generating a Java program with 90% less code
Painless, quick delivery of your domain name. Fast and professional service.
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AWS Introducing Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions
It’s really true that time flies, especially when you don’t have to think about servers: AWS Lambda just turned 5 years old and the team is always looking for new ways to help customers build and run applications in an easier way. As more mission critical applications move to serverless, customers need more control…
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Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
“We’ve never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there’s a better way to run the company.”