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How three-day weekends can help save the world
Almost everyone enjoys a bank holiday. A three-day weekend means more time to spend with family and friends, to go out and explore the world and to relax from the pressures of working life. Imagine if,...
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What Can Hitters Actually See Out of a Pitcher’s Hand?
We’ve all seen those swings so terrible that a batter can’t help but smile. Swings like this one from Brandon Phillips last year.Phillips, of course, isn’t the only victim of this sort of thing. He’s...
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Static Website Generators
These days, speed and security is the name of the game.Website visitors abandon sites after just a second or two of delay, and database hacks have become commonplace. Just look at the news to see the...
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iTunes will never work well
At this point, chronic UX problems seem endemic to iTunes, in which case the solution will appear when the product achieves end-of-life.I was trying to use the iPhone Music app, and it kept popping up...
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The Inner Game of Everything: 1974 Tennis Book Is Still a Sensation
Timothy Gallwey was working as a tennis instructor near Monterey, California, in the early 1970s, wearing white cable-knit sweaters on the court, when he decided to write The Inner Game. Gallwey had...
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Gmail will now support CSS media queries
Example of an email before and after responsive design In discussions with email designers, these supported CSS rules were identified as the most useful media queries to support responsive design. This...
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Can e-bikes revolutionise long-distance commuting?
Every morning Dutchman Marc Dekker hops on his electric bike and cycles 40 miles from his house in a suburb of Utrecht to his work in the town of Ridderkerk. And when work is done, he cycles back...
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Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now?
PhotoMarc Benioff, left, chief executive of Salesforce, talked with Matthew Panzarino, editor in chief of TechCrunch, at its Disrupt conference in San Francisco last week.Credit Beck Diefenbach/Reuters...
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Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent
Instant.io - Streaming file transfer over WebTorrentStreaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web)Drag-and-drop files to begin seeding. Or choose a file: Powered by WebTorrent. Works in...
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The Making of Lemmings
If a young electronics engineer named David Jones hadn’t lost his job at the Timex plant in Dundee in 1988, videogame history would have been different. Already a keen programmer, Jones used his £3000...
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How to Overthrow a Government [video]
Offentliggjort den 2. sep. 2016Direct from the mind of the guy who bought you the "I will kill you" presentation at DEF CON 23, is another mind bending, entertaining talk. This time it’s bigger and...
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Gorgonia: a library like Theano or TensorFlow, mainly written in Go
I released Gorgonia on Thursday. Gorgonia is a library like Theano or TensorFlow, but mainly written in Go. It provides the necessary primitives for creating and executing neural networks and machine...
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Music theory for nerds
Not music nerds, obviously.I don’t know anything about music. I know there are letters but sometimes the letters have squiggles; I know an octave doubles in pitch; I know you can write a pop song with...
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Cornell wants to drill 2-4mi underground for enhanced geothermal heating
Cornell UniversityGeothermal energy—energy drawn from the internal heat of the Earth—has long been the purview of mountainous, volcano- and earthquake-prone regions like the western United States or...
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Acidity in atmosphere minimised to preindustrial levels
19 September 2016ClimateNew research shows that human pollution of the atmosphere with acid is now almost back to the level that it was before the pollution started with industrialisation in the 1930s....
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Instant Payouts for Marketplaces
Starting today, marketplaces using Stripe Connect can send Instant Payouts to sellers or service providers on their platform. To start, it’ll be available to marketplaces in the U.S. using Managed...
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Computer Vision: On the Way to Seeing More
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The Math Inside the US Highway System
At first glance, the US highway seems like a jumble of roads:However, the numbers follow a grid, with rules nobody told me (image source, click to enlarge):Even numbers go East/West (I-90, I-10), and...
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Companies and Billionaires
namelastNameuriimageUriworthChangeagesourceindustrygendercountrytimestamprealTimeWorthrealTimeRankBill GatesGatesbill-gatesbill-gates54.86660MicrosoftTechnologyMUnited States1.47E+1279507.0551Amancio...
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We have an epidemic of deeply flawed meta-analyses, says John Ioannidis
John Ioannidis, via Stanford UniversityJohn Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford University and one of the most highly cited researchers in the world, has come up with some startling figures about...
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