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Tech’s Two Philosophies
Google and Facebook represent one philosophy, and Microsoft and Apple represent another; tech needs both, but ultimately platforms are more important than aggregators.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,419 posts.
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Think You’ve Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again
I spent a few days last week speaking at and attending a conference on responding to identity theft. The forum was held in Florida, one of the major epicenters for identity fraud complaints in United States. One gripe I heard from several presenters was that identity thieves increasingly are finding ways to open new…
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Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
I’ve been thinking a lot about task management lately. I’ve actually been thinking about it for years. I’ve always been searching for the optimal way to sort through the bajillion things I have to do and remain productive.
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Firefox 60 released
Firefox 60 offers something for everyone and a little something extra for everyone who deploys Firefox in an enterprise environment . This release includes changes that give you more content and more ways to customize your New Tab/Firefox Home. It also introduces support for the Web Authentication API, which means you…
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Shortwave Trading: The West Chicago Tower Mystery
Since 2014 this blog has extensively covered the wireless networks built by high-frequency trading (HFT) firms or network providers to reduce latencies between the different exchanges around the wo…
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Roadmap for CoreOS Integration with Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the first steps for integrating CoreOS Tectonic, Quay, and Container Linux with Red Hat’s robust container and Kubernetes-based solutions portfolio. Container application platforms like Red Hat OpenShift Container…
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Android P
We’re unveiling a beta version of Android P, the next release of Android.
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Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad
For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters - Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF).
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Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
Posted by Yaniv Leviathan, Principal Engineer and Yossi Matias, Vice President, Engineering, Google A long-standing goal of human-computer intera...
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Yubico and Microsoft Introduce Passwordless Login
The Security Key by Yubico with FIDO2 enables passwordless login for Windows 10 devices and Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
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Write Emails Faster with Smart Compose in Gmail
Powered by artificial intelligence, Smart Compose suggests complete sentences in your emails so that you can draft emails from scratch, faster.
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iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics
UPDATE June 2, 2018: USB Restricted Mode did not make it into iOS 11.4. However, in iOS 11.4.1 Beta USB Restricted Mode Has Arrived A new iOS update is about
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A Recycled IP Address Caused Me to Pirate Books by Accident
Let me tell you a story on how a subdomain of mine managed to serve 390,000+ PDF books without any of my servers being compromised.
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Fonts for Complex Data
H&Co designs fonts for print, web, and mobile environments.
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Examples of marketing tactics
Learn how the world's fastest growing companies have hacked their way to success with innovative products, viral promotions and ingenious marketing campaigns. [6500 words]
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Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming
My six-year-old son walked up to me yesterday. “What are you reading?” At the time, I was reading part of Janis Voigtländer’s habilitation thesis. Unsure where to even start, I decided to just ans…
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Twitter suspended our Open Data project's account and wiped all our followers
On Saturday evening, I was disturbed to discover that our OpenBenches Twitter Account had been suspended! To be clear, OpenBenches posts photos of benches. That’s it. No porn, no spam, no enc…
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Russian ALFA Class interceptor submarine
**Russian ALFA Class interceptor submarine** At the height of the Cold War NATO submariners found themselves confronting a Soviet submarine which not only greatly out-performed their own boats, but which could operate beyond the reach of their weapons… Read More >….
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Virtlet: run VMs as Kubernetes pods
Virtlet: run VMs as Kubernetes pods | Mirantis
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A giant 360 LED clock
A 360 leds clock on the wall
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Core Erlang by Example
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income
$25 million will be given to participants, with no strings attached.
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