IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom
A view of the single holmium atom used IBM to store a 1 or 0. IBM ResearchIn the never-ending quest to improve computing technology, IBM has just taken a big step smaller: It's found a way to store...
View ArticleStudy: Potatoes can grow on Mars
March 8 (UPI) -- CubeSat indicator experiments prove potatoes can grow on Mars. The findings show potatoes can also grow under extreme conditions on Earth.Scientists with the International Potato...
View ArticleCSS Reminification: A crazy idea that worked
CSS Remynification: A completely crazy idea that worked -- Remy Luisant's whimsical take on squishy computing science thingsTable of ContentsAntipode SpaceSummary of the contributionI came up with...
View ArticleSpotify acquires audio detection startup Sonalytic
Streaming music service Spotify announced this morning it has acquired a company called Sonalytic, makers of an audio detection technology that can identify songs, mixed content and audio clips, as...
View ArticleThe System Design Primer
README.mdMotivationLearn how to design large scale systems.Prep for the system design interview.Learn how to design large scale systemsLearning how to design scalable systems will help you become a...
View Article'Very, very pink' tap water in Alberta town
Residents in a small town northwest of Edmonton say bright pink water coming out of their taps was a bit of a shock.Vicki Veldhuyzen Van Zanten of Onoway says she got a call from a neighbour asking if...
View ArticleNotepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue
HomeNewsFix CIA Hacking Issue08 Mar 2017 21:58:00"Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed" has been published by Wikileaks recentely, and Notepad++ is on the list.The issue of a hijacked DLL concerns...
View ArticleThe Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 ti review
2016 will go down in history as the year where everything went NVIDIA’s way. Last year ended up being a banner year for the company, with NVIDIA’s revenue and profits growing by leaps and bounds to set...
View ArticleAirbnb Audit Results
We recently started participating in Airbnb’s bounty program on HackerOne. We heard a lot about this company in the past but had never used their service before. Overall they have a pretty solid...
View ArticleDrupal 7.x Services module unserialize() to RCE
Upon auditing Drupal's Services module, the Ambionics team came accross an insecure use of unserialize(). The exploitation of the vulnerability allowed for privilege escalation, SQL injection and,...
View ArticleSelf-Driving Car Challenge
Udacity is building an open source self-driving car , and we’re challenging you to contribute! Join this competition and help us build the world's first open source autonomous vehicle!We are launching...
View ArticleUnCSS: Remove unused styles from CSS
README.mdUnCSS is a tool that removes unused CSS from your stylesheets. It works across multiple files and supports Javascript-injected CSS.How?The process by which UnCSS removes the unused rules is...
View ArticleAsk HN: What are some alternatives to Show HN? Other platforms to showcase
If it's for a specific niche, probably best to contact newsletters or news sites about that niche, and try to get them to feature it, that's better than showing something to HN or similar sites. If you...
View ArticleFacebook criticised over handling of reports of child exploitation content
Media captionThe BBC reported a series of images to FacebookFacebook has been criticised for its handling of reports about sexualised images of children on its platform.The chairman of the Commons...
View ArticleDjango REST framework 3.6 released
The 3.6 release adds two major new features to REST framework.Built-in interactive API documentation support.A new JavaScript client library.Above: The interactive API documentation.The 3.6 release...
View ArticleFukushima: Wild boars take over Japan's evacuated towns [video]
Media playback is unsupported on your deviceFukushima: Wild boars take over Japan's evacuated towns9 March 2017 Last updated at 10:37 GMT Hunters have been called in to deal with hundreds of wild boars...
View ArticleThe quest to crystallize time
Illustration by Peter CrowtherChristopher Monroe spends his life poking at atoms with light. He arranges them into rings and chains and then massages them with lasers to explore their properties and...
View ArticleErrant Architectures (2003)
Objects have been around for a while, and sometimes it seems that ever since they were created, folks have wanted to distribute them. However, distribution of objects, or indeed of anything else, has...
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