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No, Gwyneth Paltrow, women should not put jade eggs in their vaginas
It wasn't that long ago when Gwyneth Paltrow raved about the benefits of vaginal steaming, a non-scientifically proven process of sitting over a hot pot of water filled with herbs for up to 45 minutes...
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Short intro to C++ for Rust developers: Ownership and Borrowing
Today, there was a reddit post that asked what one needs to know whenGoing after C++ with Rust basics. I thought this was an interesting question to answer in a blog post and revive my blog.Since I got...
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How I got my attention back
There are a thousand beautiful ways to start the day that don’t begin with looking at your phone. And yet so few of us choose to do so.For twenty-eight days this winter I lived on the grounds of an old...
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Turning CO2 to Stone
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists have developed ways to relatively quickly turn carbon dioxide captured from power plants to a solid for long-term storage. Peter Kelemen and his team examine...
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Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure
Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Team[Updated on 12/5/16 with instructions for developers]Developers: Read more about how to update your sites here.To help users browse the web safely, Chrome...
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Simple Wi-Fi Yagi (extra range with no electronics)
Simple Wi-Fi Yagi It's easy to make a small Yagi for a wireless router even if it lacks an antenna connector. The photo shows how I added two parasitic elements to the sleeve dipole of my Netgear...
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CMU AI is Leading Top Poker Players
Saturday, January 21, 2017By Byron Spice (CMU) and Garrett Allen (Rivers Casino)As the “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante” poker competition nears its halfway point, Carnegie Mellon...
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Ask HN: What's happening in agricultural technology?
Not sure if there are any experts here, but if there are, I'm quite curious about the following:1. Do we have any technology (independent of cost) existing today to have a fully automated farm?...
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Cisco: Magic WebEx URL Allows Arbitrary Remote Command Execution
Cisco's WebEx extension (jlhmfgmfgeifomenelglieieghnjghma) has ~20M active users, and is part of Cisco's popular web conferencing software. The extension works on any URL that contains the magic...
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Makes Its First Acquisition, Meta
Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic organization made its first acquisition, buying Meta, a website that makes it easier for scientists to find the latest academic research.The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative...
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Updates to our Google Voice apps
Going forward, we’ll provide new updates and features to the Google Voice apps. If you currently use Hangouts for your Google Voice communication, there’s no need to change to the new apps, but you...
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Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D.
Thursday, January 19, 2017By Martin Görner, Google Cloud Platform Developer AdvocateThis 3-hour course (video + slides) offers developers a quick introduction to deep-learning fundamentals, with some...
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New DirectX Shader Compiler Based on Clang/LLVM Open-Sourced
The DirectX HLSL (High Level Shading Language) compiler is now available as an open source project built on the Clang/LLVM framework.Microsoft drives the leading GPU shader languageSince 2002, HLSL...
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Supreme Court Should Block Printer Company’s Ploy to Undermine Consumer Rights
San Francisco - When you buy a printer cartridge, is it yours? Or can the company control what you do with it, even after you pay your bill and take it home? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)...
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Stripe launches new European payment methods
Stripe unterstützt ab heute europäische Unternehmen mit fünf weiteren Zahlungsmethoden: SEPA-Lastschrift, SOFORT Überweisung, Giropay, iDEAL und Bancontact. Sie können diese Zahlungsmethoden direkt in...
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Realm is looking for editors and transcriptionists for our News page
Realm is looking for editors and transcriptionists for our News page41 minutes ago | hideWe're looking for a few savvy and technical wordsmiths to help us create the posts on realm.io/news. This is...
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What Happens When You Mix Java with a 1960 IBM Mainframe
As an engineer for the U.S. Digital Service, Marianne Bellotti has encountered vintage mainframes that are still being used in production — sometimes even powering web apps. Last month she entertained...
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Carlo Rovelli: Is atomic theory the most important idea in human history?
According to tradition, in the year 450 BCE, a man embarked on a 400-mile sea voyage from Miletus in Anatolia to Abdera in Thrace, fleeing a prosperous Greek city that was suddenly caught up in...
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