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Breakthrough Announced in Dark Matter Detection Technology
This week, the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) announced that it has achieved the necessary sensitivity to “hear” the telltale signs of dark matter axions.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,089 posts.
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A new JPEG format
The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), an international committee headed by an EPFL professor, has just unveiled JPEG XS. With this new format, the image-compression process uses less energy, and higher-quality images can be sent with low latency over broadband networks like 5G. JPEG XS will have applications in…
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Apple says it’s now powered by renewable energy worldwide
As part of Apple’s commitment to fostering a healthier planet through innovation, its global facilities are powered with 100 percent clean energy.
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Rationale: Or why am I bothering to rewrite nanomsg?
I became involved in the nanomsg community back in 2014, when I wrote mangos as a pure Go implementation of the wire protocols behind nanomsg . I did that work because I was dissatisfied with the ZeroMQ licensing model and the C++ baggage that came with it. I also needed something that would work with Go on illumos …
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Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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OpenAI Charter
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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ACE Submarine Cable Cut Impacts Ten Countries
Oracle Blog
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Eighteenth Century English mail hacks (2001)
(((It's very clear that the postal system is not a dead medium. However, the physical and economic structure of the posts has undergone profound, elaborate changes over the centuries. Early postal systems often doubled as espionage networks, and were often proverbially corrupt.
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The Archive (macOS) – Note Taking: Nimble, Calm, Plain.txt • Zettelkasten Method
Calm, simple, and beautiful macOS note-taking app for creative thinking.
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Evolution of the English Alphabet
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Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking leaves no land untouched. In 2013 the U.S. State Department estimated that there are 27 million victims worldwide trafficked for forced labor or commercial sex exploitation. A 201…
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Multi-user VR experiences with A-Frame (2017)
Salva de la Puente describes the sharedspace component he's built, which brings the power of WebRTC to A-Frame users. The component provides a collaboration model where participants can join or ...
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New features from the last few versions of Git
A look at the new features in recent Git releases.
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Before cancer kills, it cheats
Evolutionary biologist Athena Aktipis of Arizona State University delivered a lecture titled “Why Cancer is Everywhere” at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Berkeley offers its data science course online for free
Data science is increasingly popular at Berkeley because the world is increasingly data-driven
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Payment Request API for Apple Pay
We’re pleased to announce that Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3 now support the W3C Payment Request API for conducting Apple Pay transactions on the web.
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The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's phone without Apple
The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) last week released a new report that supports what EFF has long suspected: that the FBI’s legal fight with Apple in 2016 to create backdoor access to a San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone was more focused on creating legal precedent than...
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Protecting GDPR Personal Data with Pseudonymization
If you’ve had the chance to read our GDPR white paper or our previous GDPR primer blog post, you’ve, no doubt, seen the word "pseudonymization" used extensively to describe one technical measure that ...
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Introducing Fly Edge Apps
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
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An Update on Our Plans to Restrict Data Access on Facebook
Two weeks ago we promised to take a hard look at the information apps can use when you connect them to Facebook as well as other data practices. Today, we want to update you on the changes we're making to better protect your Facebook information.
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AWS Secrets Manager – Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely
Today we’re launching AWS Secrets Manager which makes it easy to store and retrieve your secrets via API or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and rotate your credentials with built-in or custom AWS Lambda functions. Managing application secrets like database credentials, passwords, or API Keys is easy when…
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JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale
Recently we’ve seen how WebAssembly is incredibly fast to compile, speeding up JS libraries, and generating even smaller binaries. We’ve even got a high-level plan for better interoperability between the ...
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CockroachDB 2.0 released
Since our 1.0 release, we have been hard at work making CockroachDB 2.0 the database that enables a company’s data layer to evolve with their business -- whether they are in a single datacenter or expanding around the world.