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Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality
Professor Walter Scheidel examines the history of peace and economic inequality over the past 10,000 years.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,293 posts.
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Dutch secret service tries to recruit Tor-admin
Recently a Dutch man with an MSc (Master of Science) at the Delft University of Technology and admin of Tor-exit nodes was approached by two agents of the Dutch intelligence service, the AIVD. They wanted to recruit the man as an informant or undercover agent, who would also infiltrate foreign hacker communities. The…
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IPv6 Support for AWS Extended to 15 Regions
We’ve been working to add IPv6 support to many different parts of AWS over the last couple of years, starting with Elastic Load Balancing, AWS IoT Core, AWS Direct Connect, Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and S3 Transfer Acceleration, all building up to last month’s announcement of IPv6 support for EC2…
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Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as seasoned dermatologists
In hopes of creating better access to medical care, Stanford researchers have trained an algorithm to diagnose skin cancer.
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Ways we harden our KVM hypervisor at Google Cloud: Security in plaintext
Google Cloud uses the open-source KVM hypervisor that has been validated by scores of researchers as the foundation of Google Compute Engine and Google Container Engine , and invests in additional security hardening and protection based on our research and testing experience. Then we contribute back our changes to the…
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Announcing Ionic 2 Final
Today, I’m incredibly excited to announce Ionic Framework 2.0.0. Before we get into that, though, a little history lesson is in order… Back in March 2015 the Ionic team was given a unique opportunity to take all the lessons learned building a mobile framework on Angular 1 and reimagine it for a new and fast […]
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The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it
Very few think the world is making progress. In this article, we look at the history of global living conditions and show that the world has made immense progress in important aspects.
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War and Peace
How common are armed conflict and peace between and within countries? How is this changing over time? Explore research and data on war and peace.
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Init Freedom
Free GNU+Linux base OS. Devuan is a fork of Debian without systemd. Devuan provides a safe upgrade path from Debian, to ensure the right to Init Freedom and avoid entanglement.
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Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps
Explore the science behind the headlines with our leading experts.
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Racket v6.8
_posted by Vincent St-Amour_ Racket version 6.8 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Racket sports a new logo, courtesy of Matthew Butterick. MacBook Pro laptops with touch bars are supported. Support for FreeBSD on PowerPC. ...
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Making the move from Scala to Go
The Vista Group blog shares our industry-leading knowledge about cinema along with product and technology updates, case studies, and news.
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Kotlin 1.1: What’s coming in the standard library
Java 9 preparations Java 9 is coming and brings Project Jigsaw to the table — the Java platform module system. One of the constraints it imposes is that no two modules can declare public API in the s
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The NHS Budget And How It Has Changed
What is the NHS budget and how is it funded? Find out in our nutshell.
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Microsoft Appoints Kevin Scott as CTO
REDMOND, Wash. – Jan. 24, 2017 – Microsoft Corp. has named Kevin Scott to a newly created role of chief technology officer (CTO) for the company. This is an expansion of Scott’s new role at LinkedIn as senior vice president of Infrastructure. As Microsoft’s CTO, Scott will drive strategic, cross-company initiatives to…
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Firefox 51.0
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure Websites
Today’s release of Firefox includes various features for developers and users that enable a richer and safer experience on the web. WebGL 2 enables a new
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A story of a designer learning math
The free website builder with a design agent that takes you from idea to launch. Changes stay editable, with hosting, CMS, analytics, SEO, and AEO built in.
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Supreme Court Should Block Printer Company’s Ploy to Undermine Consumer Rights
San Francisco - When you buy a printer cartridge, is it yours? Or can the company control what you do with it, even after you pay your bill and take it home? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the U.S. Supreme Court today to protect consumers’ property rights in a court case centering...
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New DirectX Shader Compiler Based on Clang/LLVM Open-Sourced
The DirectX HLSL (High Level Shading Language) compiler is now available as an open source project built on the Clang/LLVM framework. Microsoft drives the
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Updates to our Google Voice apps
Google Voice is getting a fresh design and new features, across Android, iOS and the web.
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Galaxy Note7: What We Discovered
To find the cause of the Galaxy Note7 incidents, Samsung examined every aspect of the Gala
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CMU's Libratus builds substantial lead in Brains vs. AI competition
CMU Artificial Intelligence Is Tough Poker Player
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