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An open-source web platform for the new President of France
The web platform running the winning campaign of the next President of France, Emmanuel Macron, is made with Symfony and is open source.
Attacking Machine Learning with Adversarial Examples
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
3-D printed ovaries produce healthy offspring in mice
Bioprosthetic ovaries produced mouse pups in otherwise infertile mice
Kotlin is the hero Android needs
On May 17th 2019 Google announced Kotlin as the officially supported language for Android, in a long awaited development. Find out more about this shift here.
Video Messages and Telescope on Telegram
Introducing new video messages and Telesco.pe, a video hosting for public channels.
Google Home: An Insight Into a 4-Year-Old’s Mind
How Google Home provides an interesting insight into the curiosity of a 4-year-old.
Flood Death Valley
Since Death Valley is below sea level could we dig a hole to the ocean and fill it up with water?
SketchRNN model released in Magenta
Sketch-RNN, a generative model for vector drawings, is now available in Magenta. For an overview of the model, see the Google Research blog fromApril 2017, ...
One Step Closer to a Closed Internet
Today, the FCC voted on Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to repeal and replace net neutrality protections enacted in 2015. The verdict: to move forward with
Heroku CI Is Now Generally Available
Today we are proud to announce that Heroku CI, a low-configuration test runner for unit and browser testing that is tightly integrated with Heroku...
PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces today that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 10 is available for download. This …
History of Emacs and vi Keys (2010)
In my study of keyboarding in the past 20 years, i've noticed that the choices of many shortcuts in many apps are adopted to the many aspects of the keyboard hardware of the time in use by the community. Emacs's keybinding is not simply based on the first letter of commands, but the QWERTY layout's key positions have…
Microsoft to Deliver Microsoft Cloud from Datacenters in Africa
Few places in the world are as dynamic and diverse as Africa today. In this landscape, we see enormous opportunity for the cloud to accelerate innovation, support people across the continent who are working to transform their businesses, explore new entrepreneurship opportunities and help solve some of the world’s…
Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
WanaCrypt0r Ransomworm
Written by Sergei Shevchenko and Adrian Nish BACKGROUND Since the release of the ETERNALBLUE exploit by ‘The Shadow Brokers’ last month se...
Interview with Ed McManus, Technical Advisor for HBO’s Silicon Valley [audio]
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