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The baby MRI: shrinking tech to help save newborn lives
There’s a picture of our first daughter that my wife can’t bear to see. It was taken on Easter Sunday, 2008, the day she was born. Although it was the start of spring, it was snowing in London....
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Five-month-old babies know what’s funny
Before they speak or crawl or walk or achieve many of the other amazing developmental milestones in the first year of life, babies laugh. This simple act makes its debut around the fourth month of...
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Microsoft earnings blow past estimates in every category, beats Street
Microsoft reported quarterly earnings that toppled analysts' expectations Thursday as its key cloud product nearly doubled its revenue. Microsoft's cloud business brought in $6.86 billion in revenue...
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Is the Default Mode of the Brain to Suffer?
If you’re going to get any sort of science done, an experiment needs a control group: the unaffected, possibly placebo-ed population that didn’t take part in whatever intervention it is you’re trying...
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Researchers are beginning to disentangle pain relief from addiction and overdose
A bunion, you may have the misfortune to know, is a bony growth that forms at the base of your big toe. When that bump begins to irritate the rest of your foot, it has to go.Wincing would be the...
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Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground
It’s not surprising that Mac sales dropped for Apple in 2016 as they experienced their first year over year sales decline since 2001. What is interesting, however, is that as Mac sales dropped roughly...
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Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick
The focus on black adolescents is significant. In much of this research, white Americans appeared somehow to be immune to the negative health effects that accompany relentless striving. As Dr. Brody...
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iCracked is hiring Sr. Product and Sr. Engineers, join us
iCracked Germany GmbH verwendet sogenannte Cookies, um unsere Websites für Sie zu optimieren und Ihnen des bestmöglichen Service zu bieten. Wenn Sie auf unseren Websites weitersurfen, stimmen Sie der...
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Political World Embraces Encrypted-Messaging App Signal Amid Fears of Hacking
Signal, a smartphone app that allows users to send encrypted messages, is gaining popularity in the political world amid rising fears about hacking and surveillance in the wake of a tumultuous election...
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Calling Windows 10 APIs from a WinForms or WPF application
In today’s post, we’re covering how PC software can leverage the rich functionality of Windows 10. This is valuable background for the upcoming post “Adding UWP Features to Your Existing PC Software...
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The Founder: A Dystopian Business Simulator
a dystopian business-simulator Play Nowit won't be good on a screen this small thoughBootstrap your dream company.It's 2001. Start modestly from your apartment and build up your startup alongside the...
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How to leak to the press
The Trump administration, in its first full week in office, moved to restrict how a number of federal agencies communicate with the public, including the media. And while at least some of those...
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Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
Image copyrightPashaIgnatovImage caption The networks of fake accounts can be used to boost followers or post junk messagesMassive collections of fake accounts are lying dormant on Twitter, suggests...
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Machine learning could finally crack the 4,000-year-old Indus script
In 1872 a British general named Alexander Cunningham, excavating an area in what was then British-controlled northern India, came across something peculiar. Buried in some ruins, he uncovered a small,...
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Pull request review mistakes
I’ve worked on a whole lot of GitHub-hosted projects, whether personal, open-source, or on contract. Sometimes using the public GitHub, and other times GitHub Enterprise. But one thing is the same:...
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A Four Planet System in Orbit, Directly Imaged and Remarkable
HR 8799 is 129 light years away in the constellation of Pegasus. By coincidence, it is quite close to the star 51 Pegasi, where the first exoplanet was detected in 1995. It is less than 60 million...
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My Next Mac Mini
I think I might be getting old, but it took me completely by surprise that the Mac Mini we use in our lounge room as our TV was 6 years old. It’s been such a great little machine. It lets us watch...
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Why Your Best Thinking Is in the Shower: Creativity and the “Incubation Period”
“The great Tao fades away.”So begins one translation of the Tao Te Ching’s 18th Chapter. The sentence captures the frustration that comes with a lost epiphany. Whether it’s a profound realization when...
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Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges
It was unclear how many refugees and immigrants were being held nationwide in the aftermath of the executive order. The complaints were filed by a prominent group including the American Civil Liberties...
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Forth: The Hacker’s Language
Let’s start right off with a controversial claim: Forth is the hacker’s programming language. Coding in Forth is a little bit like writing assembly language, interactively, for a strange CPU...
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