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Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood
I first spoke to Stone in June 2015, after reading that he was in the midst of shooting a film based on Kucherena’s novel. He said he would be traveling to Moscow again that week to shoot Snowden and...
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500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format
Haiku uses a custom vector image format to store icons. This is surprising both because most OSes consider bitmaps to be totally sufficient to represent icons and because there are plenty of vector...
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“We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”
Identified - Linode has received several Xen Security Advisories (XSAs) that require us to perform updates to our legacy Xen host servers. In order to apply the updates, hosts and the Linodes running...
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Bootable NASA 'SPOC' Software on Your PC
If folks are interested:This is SPOC, the navigation software that was used on board the Space Shuttle, which I showed at the last meeting.I rolled a *bootable* 3.5" 1.44mb floppy image of it:It...
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How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead
PhotoCredit Andrea Bruno Philadelphia — First you get your coat. I don’t care if you don’t remember where you left it, you find it. If there was a lot of blood you ask someone to go quickly to the...
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George Orwell and the whiff of genius
The Orwellian past is a foreign country; smells are different there. Pipe smoke and carbolic, side notes of horse dung and camphor — and that most inescapable odour, the ‘melancholy smell of boiled...
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Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants
FRANKFURT -- The gleaming white Porsche with menacing black trim took less than 8 minutes to complete the Nurburgring's demanding Nordschleife circuit. The result was respectable but not spectacular...
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The Real-Life Superhero Who Beats the Cops to Bike Thieves
A year ago, before the man they call Bike Batman began his work—before he headed out on missions around the Emerald City with a pocketful of cash and the cops on speed dial and a paladin’s sense of...
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Plan9 from?
Plan 9 from ? Plan 9 from ? I have been saying for years that I am seeing the same phenomonon today that I saw thirty years ago when the microprocessor was first invented. At that time I argued a lot...
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Loneliness can be depressing, but it may have helped humans survive
Loneliness not only feels nasty, it can also make you depressed, shatter your sleep, even kill you. Yet scientists think loneliness evolved because it was good for us. It still is — sometimes.There is...
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Stacked Approximated Regression Machine: A Simple Deep Learning Approach
(Submitted on 14 Aug 2016)Abstract: This paper proposes the Stacked Approximated Regression Machine (SARM), a novel, simple yet powerful deep learning (DL) baseline. We start by discussing the...
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Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web
Because Plottable handles layout, sizing, and positioning, Plottable charts are easier to create and more reusable than charts built only with D3. And, since Plottable Components are powered by D3, the...
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The forgotten underground world of Swiss bunkers
The bunker has seven levels underground, staff would have entered through this tunnel(swissinfo.ch)The Swiss city of Lucerne was once home to the biggest civilian bunker in the world. Built to shelter...
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Three JavaScript performance fundamentals that make Bluebird fast
As promised in our recent Promises made by a Reaktor developer had an impact on the industry article, here’s some original knowledge from our very own Petka Antonov – programmer and creator of the...
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Carbon nanotube transistors outperform silicon
The UW–Madison engineers use a solution process to deposit aligned arrays of carbon nanotubes onto 1 inch by 1 inch substrates. The researchers used their scalable and rapid deposition process to coat...
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How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University – Part 3
By Michael Halls-Moore on September 1st, 2016In the first and second articles in the series we looked at the courses that are taken in the first half of a four-year undergraduate mathematics degree -...
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Giant Panda no longer an endangered species
5 September 2016Image copyrightMOHD RASFANThe number of giant pandas has increased thanks to conservation efforts over decades in China to save the species.With population counts at approximately 2,000...
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No Sailors Needed: Robot Sailboats Scour the Oceans for Data
The Saildrone’s carbon fiber sail acts like an aircraft wing. When air passes over it, thrust is created. The sail is stabilized by a counterweight that is placed in front of it and a tab trailing...
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