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Scientists Capture a “Sonic Boom” of Light
Most people are familiar with sonic booms, even if they don’t know exactly how they work. NASA explains that air reacts like a fluid to objects that are moving faster than the speed of sound. This...
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Toyota's Gill Pratt on Self-Driving Cars and the Reality of Full Autonomy
After wrapping up the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2015, Gill Pratt helped to launch the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), which is investing over a billion dollars in robotics and artificial...
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Spanish scientists create a 3-D bioprinter to print human skin
Prototype for a 3-D bioprinter that can create totally functional human skin. Credit: UC3MScientists from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), CIEMAT (Center for Energy, Environmental and...
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Iridium Browser: Privacy oriented browser based on Chromium
SponsoringAs you can imagine, developing, provision of infrastructure, and testing is very intense work. This results in costs to maintain easy imaginable things such as bandwidth, but also...
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Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M
Western Union Co, the world's biggest money-transfer company, agreed to pay $586 million and admitted to turning a blind eye as criminals used its service for money laundering and fraud, U.S....
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Unexpected Consequences of Self Driving Cars
Many new technologies have unexpected impacts on the physical or social world in which we live.When the first IMPs for the fledgling ARPANET were being built starting in 1969 at BBN in Cambridge, MA, I...
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KeepassXC: Cross platform community fork of KeepassX
EncryptedThe complete database is always encrypted with the AES (alias Rijndael) encryption algorithm using a 256 bit key. KeePassXC uses a database format that is compatible with KeePass Password...
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The strange connections we feel to people we follow online
I got up one morning and checked my daily Medium feed and a story jumped out at me. It was called, “Sex and Sorrow“. Catchy title, no? What’s the association between sex and sorrow? So I read it and...
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Toyota's Gill Pratt on Self-Driving Cars and the Reality of Full Autonomy
After wrapping up the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2015, Gill Pratt helped to launch the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), which is investing over a billion dollars in robotics and artificial...
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Rsync.net – Cloud Storage for Offsite Backups
- Enterprise Offsite Backup Since 2001- Global Locations in US, Europe, Asia- SAS 70 / PCI / SOX / HIPAA Compliant- No License, Setup or Per-Seat Costs- Unlimited Technical Support- Free Integration...
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Microsoft mulls cutting UK datacentre investment amid Brexit concerns
Microsoft UK hosted an online event to discuss the impact of the UK's likely departure from the European Union on the tech industry. The event was spotted by OnMSFT.The company currently has two large...
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Streak (YC S11) Hiring a Customer Solutions Engineer
The Senior Front End position is a chance for an experienced, intellectually curious engineer to level up in their career even further. We use (and are passionate about) the most modern javascript...
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US Small Business Optimism Index rose dramatically in December
Small business optimism rocketed to its highest level since 2004, with a stratospheric 38-point jump in the number of owners who expect better business conditions, according to the monthly National...
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Common Off the Shelf software in [astronomy] operations, is it worth it?
(Submitted on 11 Nov 2016)Abstract: Often, perhaps not often enough, we choose Common Off the Shelf (COTS) software for integration in our systems. These range from repositories to databases and tools...
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Asynchronous Exceptions in Practice
January 24, 2017Asynchronous exceptions are a controversial feature of Haskell. You can throw an exception to another thread, at any time; all you need is its ThreadId:throwTo :: Exception e =>...
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Velodyne Plans a Lidar Megafactory
After years of dominating the market for automotive lidar thanks to the simple fact of being in it first, Velodyne is now shaking off new contenders by expanding a megafactory in San Jose, Calif.This...
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The struggle with Rust
So I spent a few evenings with Rust, and I have managed to do some pretty trivial stuff with it, but then I tried to do something non trivial (low level trie that relies on low level memory...
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Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing
I have written a textbook for the SSC 335/394 “Introduction to Scientific and Technical Computing” course at UT. This book contains both theory and practical tutorials. This book is released under a...
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Show HN: Math Attack – My side project of 3 years
The world is under attack by an alien species. It is up to you and your assistant to save the world by cracking their code and destroying their weapons.Match the numbers on the enemy balloons to...
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