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In our study published in Nature, we demonstrate how artificial intelligence research can drive and accelerate new scientific discoveries. We’ve built a dedicated, interdisciplinary team in hopes of using AI to push basic research forward: bringing together experts from the fields of structural biology, physics, and…
MIT Professor Christopher Voigt and his team are working to transform cereal crops so they are able to fix their own nitrogen. The research has been funded by the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS).
A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing that creates an interconnected web of thought. Its emphasis is on connection and not mere collection of ideas.
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For many, Los Angeles embodies car-culture—and the suburban-style development, freeways, traffic jams, and pollution that go with it. But it didn’t have to be that way. Turns out, LA was never designed to be a car city.
Git 2.25.0 includes a new experimental git sparse-checkout command that makes the existing feature easier to use, along with some important performance benefits for large repositories.
We tested Firefox Preview, the new Firefox experience for Android, together with our users for 6 months. Now it's coming to Firefox for Android Nightly.
Food delivery app DoorDash has grown rapidly into the national industry leader, serving all 50 states and outpacing GrubHub, Uber Eats, Postmates, and other players with an estimated 35% marketshare in a rapidly-expanding segment. The company is reportedly preparing for an IPO and has been valued at a remarkable $12.6…
The scientific consensus is clear. The world confronts an urgent carbon problem. The carbon in our atmosphere has created a blanket of gas that traps heat and is changing the world’s climate. Already, the planet’s temperature has risen by 1 degree centigrade. If we don’t curb emissions, and temperatures continue to…
On Tuesday, the NSA announced they had found a critical vulnerability in the certificate validation functionality on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019. This bug allows attackers to break the validation of trust in a wide variety of contexts, such as HTTPS and code signing. Concerned? Get the important details…
We look at how to utilize both, views and materialized views, within Ruby on Rails with a real-world sized dataset of hockey teams and their top scorers.
How much plastic ends up in the ocean? Where does it come from?
The Khronos Group announces the release of the Vulkan 1.2…
Through an unprecedented series of technical, business, and cultural innovations, Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation spawned hundreds of ventures that established Silicon Valley as a world center of entrepreneurial activity and technological leadership. Although the firm’s market valuation never exceeded $2.5…
We created a centralized authentication service, called Identity, by building upon functionality from the OpenID Connect (OIDC) specification.
Superhuman Docs doc by Michael Forrest
A little over a year ago, we announced our intention to rebuild Microsoft Edge on the Chromium open source project with the goals of delivering better compatibility for everyone, less fragmentation for web developers, and a partnership with the Chromium community to improve the Chromium engine itself. At Ignite, we…
I would like the jury to know that I am, for the most part, a TypeScript fan but I do have some nagging doubts that I would like to discuss in this post.
v1.2 - added comments from HN v1.3 - added “What does fits mean ?” v1.4 - added the conclusion When something very basic goes wrong, I have this hierarchy of potential culprits: the compiler buggy hardware OS vendor last and least me, because I don’t make mistakes :) So what...
When I read that Google is forcing developers to migrate from Google Sheets API v3 to v4, I was mad. Here's why.
Facebook AI has developed the first neural network that uses symbolic reasoning to solve advanced mathematics problems.
The online advertising industry is behind comprehensive illegal collection and indiscriminate use of personal data, research from the Norwegian Consumer Council shows.
