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CPU emulator in web browser (Arm/Mips/X86/Sparc)

InformationUnicorn.js is a port of the Unicorn emulator framework for JavaScript, done with Emscripten. It's released as a 19 MB JavaScript file supporting the architectures: ARM, ARM64, M68K, MIPS,...

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FBI Is Building a Watchlist That Gives Companies Real Time Updates on Employees

The FBI’s Rap Back program is quietly transforming the way employers conduct background checks. While routine background checks provide employers with a one-time “snapshot” of their employee’s past...

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Interactive command line HTTP inspector written in Go

README.mdInteractive cli tool for HTTP inspectionWuzz command line arguments are similar to cURL's arguments, so it can be used to inspect/modify requests copied from the browser's network inspector...

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Dictionary of dead language complete after 90 years (2011)

Image caption The first volumes of the dictionary were published in the 1950sA dictionary of the extinct language of ancient Mesopotamia has been completed after 90 years of work. Assyrian and...

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Wal-E: Continuous Archiving for Postgres

README.rstContinuous archiving for PostgresWAL-E is a program designed to perform continuous archiving of PostgreSQL WAL files and base backups.To correspond on using WAL-E or to collaborate on its...

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Why Our Super Bowl Ad Failed

This weekend, Cards Against Humanity purchased an ad during the Super Bowl, the most-watched American television broadcast of the year, reaching 114.4 million viewers.Cards Against Humanity is known as...

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Chrome 56 quietly added Bluetooth snitch API

+Comment When Google popped out Chrome 56 at the end of January it was keen to remind us it's making the web safer by flagging non-HTTPS sites.But Google made little effort to publicise another feature...

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M.I.A

The distress call was picked up by the radio crew at Forward Operating Base One, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, on the morning of May 20, 1968. Some 250 miles to the northwest, on the other side...

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Death by Tactile Paving

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The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials into the New Serfs

This isn’t about lifestyle choices. It’s about a system in which the boomers are protecting their wealth and views at the expense of the rest of us.American greatness was long premised on the common...

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Gita – autonomous lightweight delivery system

The lightweight delivery systemfor the 21st century cityscape.GitaGita is a 26 inch tall light vehicle that can carry up to 40 lbs.; its name means 'short journey' in Italian. Gita is able either to...

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Planet to Acquire Terra Bella from Google

Planet Labs is thrilled to announce that we have entered into an agreement with Google, wherein Planet will acquire the Terra Bella business including the SkySat constellation of satellites, and Google...

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IDPF, EPUB Standardizing Body, Has Combined with W3C

On January 30, 2017 the combination of IDPF and W3C was completed (see W3C press release), and IDPF has ceased operations as a membership organization. This website is now an archive. For current...

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Our Iraqi Interpreter Sammy

I was born in the former Soviet Union in the early 80s. When I was 16, my family immigrated to Israel. A year or so later, my mother won a Green-card. We moved to San Francisco in June of 2001, 2...

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Not Everyone in Tech Cheers the H-1B Visa Program

The debate over H-1B visas has gained new urgency as employers prepare for President Trump to sign an executive order to overhaul the program. It is not clear what action Mr. Trump plans to take, but a...

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Californians are paying billions for power they don't need

The saga of two plants — Sutter Energy and Colusa — helps explain in a microcosm how California came to have too much energy, and is paying a high price for it.Sutter was built in 2001 by Houston-based...

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Building a Lisp from scratch with Swift

Published on February 5, 2017Some say that building a small language interpreter, especially if a LISP, is one of those things you have to do at least one time in your life as a programmer, an eye...

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Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished [video]

Offentliggjort den 4. feb. 2017Details & Ordering: http://mntshop.bigcartel.com/product/...Drivers and updates: http://mntmn.com/va2000/Music: aGe2.1 – Post MortemThanks to the Amiga community and...

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Where has my disk space gone? Flame graphs for file systems

My laptop was recently running low on available disk space, and it was a mystery as to why. I have different tools to explore the file system, including running the "find / -ls" command from a...

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The end of the level playing field

I am old enough to remember the gogo days of cable TV when entrepreneurs who wanted to launch a new cable channel would go, hat in hand and cap table in tow, to the big cable companies and beg to get...

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