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Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
Octopuses, crabs and lobsters will receive greater welfare protection following an LSE report demonstrating they have capacity to experience pain or distress.
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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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China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization
5 October 2021, San Francisco, CA, USA — China today blocked the Wikimedia Foundation’s bid for observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the second time after the Foundation’s initial application in 2020. WIPO is the United Nations (UN) organization that develops international…
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Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome
Some of the most successful people have secretly felt like they were terrible at their jobs. Imposter syndrome affects almost everyone, but there are a few things you can overcome this fear.
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Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code
From media reports and individual findings that various people have presented to us, it seems that the new social media platform owned by the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, so-called Truth Social, is using Mastodon’s source code with various visual adjustments. The platform has not formally…
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Retiring Tucows Downloads
Tucows offers Domain Name Services, Fiber Internet Services and SaaS through our businesses Tucows Domains, Ting and Wavelo. We're a tech company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, making the internet better since 1993.
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First federal grant for psychedelic treatment research in 50 years
Can #psilocybin help smokers quit? #NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse has funded @HopkinsMedicine Matthew Johnson, Ph.D., to find out. @Drug_Researcher ›
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People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency
People who are both trustworthy and competent are most sought after when forming teams
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Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours
New Australian surveillance bill enables police to hack your device, collect or delete your data, and take over your social media accounts.
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A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap
If you develop for the web, you’ve probably heard of OpenStreetMap, an open data alternative to Google Maps. Despite the wide name recognition of OSM, you may have questions like how do I make a web map with OSM data? and how can I host maps myself? There are popular guides on how to work with planet files, PostGIS…
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U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than income
Across the U.S., home prices have outpaced income. Our data reveals how the American dream of homeownership is becoming a nightmare.
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New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types
In mice and in human tissue, a new compound discovered at Princeton disables a key gene that’s implicated in breast, prostate, liver, lung, colon and other cancers.
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Improving GitHub Code Search
Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.
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One week of Libera Chat
The state of the network after one week of operation.
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.NET 6 Released
.NET 6 is now available. It is easier to use, runs faster, and has many new features.
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QUIC and HTTP/3 Support Now in Firefox Nightly and Beta
Support for QUIC and HTTP/3 is now enabled by default in Firefox Nightly and Firefox Beta. HTTP/3 will be available by the end of May.
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Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
Announcing the successor to the groundbreaking Raspberry Pi Zero: the $15 Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, built around our own RP3A0 System-in-Package
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Ruby 3.1
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.1.0. Ruby 3.1 keeps compatibility with Ruby 3.0 and also adds many features.
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Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020)
Executive Mandates driving Product Execution via Project Management
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Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance
Facebook engineers have built and open-sourced an Open Compute Time Appliance, an important component of the modern timing infrastructure. To make this possible, we came up with the Time Card — a P…
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Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel
How a failing rsync run led to the discovery of a long-standing bug in the Linux TCP implementation.
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Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy
How accurate is Ikea's Vindriktning air quality sensor? This review covers PM2.5 behavior, limitations, and how it compares with better monitors.
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Yamaha MOTOROiD
the Next Phase of Jin-Ki Kanno: Like a Living Creature
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The Perils of an .xyz Domain
Create your virtual HQ in seconds with a free trial of Spot.
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What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?
“What the pandemic showed is we can take marketing down to zero and still have 95% of the same traffic as the year before. So we’re not going to forget
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Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
Miners have begun to coordinate a 51% attack to stop EIP-1559, and the Ethereum community has responded.