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Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night
How UX design is impacting the way we binge watch television.
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The Ethical Failures Behind the Boeing Disasters
Two Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes crashed shortly after takeoff, on October 28, 2018 near Jakarta, Indonesia and March 10, 2019, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The disasters cost the lives of 346 passengers and crew. Black box data recovered from the two planes indicate that bad engineering practices and surprisingly simple…
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NPM lockfiles can be a security blindspot for injecting malicious modules in PRs
In this post, we show you how easy it is to introduce back doors that are easily missed by project owners… leaving your code insecure.
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Announcing the New PubMed
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is replacing the current version of the PubMed database with a newly re-designed version. The new version is now live and can be found at You can still acces…
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The Pineapple Fund donated $55M in nonprofit Bitcoin grants
On December 14, 2017 a post was made on Reddit that would forever change the landscape of charitable giving with cryptocurrency.
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Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectious diseases combined
Hepatitis C has become so widespread that experts are calling on doctors to screen all adults 18 to 79, even those with no known risk factors or symptoms.
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Ruby 2.7
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.7.0.
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The investigation into ToTok
triaging a massively popular iOS application, with a dark side
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Minimalism – An undervalued development skill
Here's a cheap trick to make a difference: focus on the bare essentials and get rid of the rest. It's easy to be different, because others are mostly doing
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Social media bots often tweet fake health claims about cannabis: study
USC researchers analyzed thousands of tweets and found that social bots frequently shared false information about cannabis’s health benefits.
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How to Ruin a Company with One Bad Process (2014)
“Real quick, whole squad on that real sh*t 0 to 100, n***a, real quick” —Drake, “0 to 100/The Catch Up” I am a giant advocate for technical founders running their own companies, but one consistent way that technical founders deeply harm their businesses is by screwing up the budgeting process. Yes, the budgeting…
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How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)
One of the most useful features of any version control system is the ability to "undo" your mistakes. In Git, "undo" can mean many slightly different things.
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How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL
In September 2019 Apple reopened the doors of its historic store in the Fifth Avenue and to celebrate the special event
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Beyond L2 Loss – How We Experiment with Loss Functions
Estimating expected time of arrival (ETA) is crucial to what we do at Lyft. Estimates go directly to riders and drivers using our apps, as…
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Post-Mortem for Bra Theory
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Windows 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium
During our investigation, we discovered that yet another 0-day exploit (CVE-2019-1458) was used in Operation WizardOpium attacks.
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Bazel 2.0
A new major version of Bazel, Bazel 2.0 has just been released. In particular, it brings some important flag flips that did not make it into Bazel 1.0 .
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New laser ultrasound technique can remotely image the inside of a person
MIT researchers have produced the first “laser ultrasound” images in humans, using eye- and skin-safe lasers. The new technique enables noncontact ultrasound imaging, which may help clinicians to remotely assess patients, infants, and contact-sensitive subjects such as burn victims.
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Porting a JavaScript App to WebAssembly with Rust (Part 1)
We will demonstrate how to do a complete port of a web application from React + Redux written in JavaScript to WebAssembly (WASM) with Rust .
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Squashed Bugs, with Failure Rate Heatmaps
TiDB is the distributed SQL database built for AI agents. Vectors, transactions, and analytics in one engine with ACID guarantees and elastic scale.
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Ember.js Octane Edition
Ember 3.15 is Octane! Curious what Octane means for web development? This blog post will get you oriented. For a write up of the technical details (upgrade strategies, deprecations, new Ember Data...
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In Memoriam of Charles “Chuck” Peddle
It is with sadness WDC/I announce that on December 15, 2019, Chuck Peddle passed away. We send our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and the personal computer industry. We have lost a pioneer with Chuck’s passing.
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Guide to Software Defined Radio
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