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About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
Self-identified Christians make up 63% of the U.S. population in 2021, down from 75% a decade ago.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,323 posts.
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Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11
UPDATE 1/5/2022: We have begun rolling out the redesigned Notepad for Windows 11 to all Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello Wi
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AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet
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Racket 8.1
_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.1 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/. DrRacket tabs can be dragged, and have new close buttons. Racket CS supports cross-compilation using `raco exe`. Racket CS supports Android on 32-...
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Fly’s Prometheus Metrics
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech
Economic inequality in hiring is in part driven by snap perceptions of job applicants’ speech patterns, new Yale research shows.
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How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome
Just like Google Chrome, Vivaldi browser is built using the open-source Chromium code. So how different is Vivaldi from Chrome?
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So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (2006)
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (2019)
The story of its last-minute pivot and epic comeback.
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First Public Working Drafts: WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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2,050-year-old Roman tomb offers insights on ancient concrete resilience
The unique mineral composition of the 2,050-year-old Roman tomb of Caecilia Metella could point the way toward more resilient and sustainable modern concrete structures.
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The Privacy Lesson of 9/11: Mass Surveillance Is Not the Way Forward
Congress must ensure that the next generation of Americans is able to speak and associate freely, without fear of surveillance.
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Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management in the age of containers
This talk will reflect on what GNU Guix has to offer to users and how it compares to other approaches—from CONDA and pip to Flatpak and Docker. Guix is not only a transactional package manager and declarative GNU/Linux distribution: it’s also an environment manager, a container provisioning tool, and more. We will…
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Elementary OS 6 beta
What’s a beta, and what’s new for developers?
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Abstract Syntax Tree for Patching Code and Assessing Code Quality
Abstract Syntax Tree is an extremely useful tool. It provides a tree representation of a source code, that can be traversed to parse the code while understanding the code’s language constructs. In this article, we explain how we have used ASTs to write IntelliPatch scripts that can...
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Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files SLAPP Lawsuit to Silence a Critic
During the pandemic, a dangerous business has prospered: invading students’ privacy with proctoring software and apps. In the last year, we’ve seen universities compel students to download apps that collect their face images, driver’s license data, and network information. Students who want to move...
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Canonical Offering Blender Support
Blender's ecosystem gets a boost. Independent Blender LTS support and services for enterprises are available via Canonical now.
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Firefox 95 Released
RLBox — a new technology that hardens Firefox against potential security vulnerabilities in third-party libraries — is now enabled on all platforms.
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Python 3's F-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax
Python f-strings give you a readable, concise way to interpolate and format strings, and they beat .format() and the % operator on speed.
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Google will consider lowering Play Store cut to 15% for certain apps
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Porting Doom to the Fastly edge serverless platform
id Software’s DOOM has become one of the most-ported games in history. It felt like a perfect project to port to Compute, built on our serverless compute environment, to experiment with different applications of the product.
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Plunge in lithium-ion battery costs
The cost of lithium-ion batteries for phones, laptops, and cars has plunged over the years, and an MIT study shows just how dramatic that drop has been. The change is akin to that of solar and wind energy, and further declines may yet be possible, the researchers say.
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Sustainable coffee grown in Finland with cellular agriculture
VTT has successfully produced coffee cells in a bioreactor through cellular agriculture. The innovation can help to make the production of coffee more sustainable. The first batches produced by VTT in a laboratory in Finland smell and taste like conventional coffee.
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Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks
We’ve discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually. This may explain CLIP’s accuracy in classifying surprising visual renditions of concepts, and is also an important step toward understanding the associations and biases that CLIP and similar…
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First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star (2020)
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely rare, and — until now — astronomers had never directly observed more than one planet orbiting a…