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A new protein-based antiviral nasal spray is being advanced to Phase I human clinical trials to treat COVID-19. It works by blocking the spike protein's ability to infect cells.
Difference between strings and symbols in Ruby
Recently, Aria Beingessner published an interesting essay “ Rust’s Unsafe Pointer Types Need An Overhaul ”. There are several parts to this essay, all of which address issues which cause me pain in Rust, and which I would love to see fixed. I want to focus on one issue: Rust’s usize conflates address, data, and object…
Google Search is falling behind. We analyzed three areas – programming queries, sports queries, and cooking queries – to understand where Google Search lags behind its competitors.
This post explains why Rust made sense for Discord to reimplement: how it was done, and the resulting performance improvements.
On April 13, 2022, the Real World Crypto steering committee presented the Max Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography to Let’s Encrypt. The following is the speech delivered by our Executive Director, Josh Aas, upon receiving the award. We’d like to thank our community for supporting us and invite you to join us in…
Not only did researchers find that the apps gather audio data while "mute" is activated; they could identify activities picked up when microphones weren't believed to be on, such as eating, playing music, typing and cleaning.
Engineers at MIT and NREL have developed a heat engine with no moving parts that is as efficient as a steam turbine.
(“This Week in Glean'' is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work. They could be release ...
Hundreds of companies have no access to JIRA, Confluence and Atlassian Cloud. What can engineering teams learn from the poor handling of this outage?
One Machine Learning algorithm that relies on the concepts of proximity and similarity is K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN). KNN is a supervised learning algorithm capable of performing both classification and regression tasks.
Building software looks a lot like building a house, but selling the two couldn't be more different.
Today Apple revealed the 10 winning Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge photographs shot all over the world on iPhone 13 Pro.
Fun with LapLink 5 and parallel port file transfers under FreeDOS
This is part 1. Part 2: update : U+237C ⍼ angzarr; Part 3: Monotype Mathematical Sorts Part 4: U+237C ⍼ is (also) S9576 ⍼
Machine-learning generated content has major implications on the Metaverse, because it brings the marginal cost of production to zero.
If you look at a “Web3” offering and just think of it as a pump-and-dump onto retail investors, everything will make much more sense.
This incident remains the top priority for my engineering team and for our entire company.
Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user machine.
A list of new(ish) command line tools
Lighting, perspective, variation chaining, and other tricks to try with DALL·E.
This is a rumor, it may have rubber floors, but that water will be trapped under the floor and rust your Honda Element from the inside out.
When to use generics when writing Go code, and when not to use them.
Interviewing is stressful enough, but interviewing while doing your day job?1 Yikes! Well, I just did it,2 and I’m here to tell you that it’s totally …
New features and a substantial reduction in false positives bring GCC's static analysis closer to being production-ready for C code.
May 2, 2022 update: Treasury holds I Bond’s fixed rate at 0.0%; composite rate soars to 9.62%. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com Based on the March inflation report, which concluded the six-month rate s…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. The DOJ also charged the alleged…
iMovie 3.0 makes it easier than ever for anyone to share their stories with video.
