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Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in prison
Eddie Tipton, former security director of the Multistate Lottery Association, received the maximum sentence from an Iowa judge, who mentioned Tipton's "greed" in his sentencing. "I certainly regret my...
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Web merchants routinely leak data about Bitcoin purchases
An increasing number of online merchants now offer the ability to pay using the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. One of the great promises of this technology is anonymity: the transactions are recorded and made...
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The Interface font family
Interface started out in late 2016 as an experiment to build a perfectly pixel–fitting font at a specific small size (11px.) The idea was that by crafting a font in a particular way, with a particular...
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Disney’s Choice
While the “look-at-the-silly-millenials” genre tends to be a bit tiresome, the Wall Street Journal came up with a novel angle earlier this month: the TV antenna. The antenna is mounting a quiet...
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Introducing Network Service Tiers
In Premium Tier, inbound traffic from your end user to your application in Google Cloud enters Google’s private, high performance network at the POP closest to your end user, and GCP delivers this...
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Amazon has as much office space in Seattle as the next 40 biggest employers
Amazon’s extraordinary growth has turned Seattle into the biggest company town in America.Amazon now occupies a mind-boggling 19 percent of all prime office space in the city, the most for any employer...
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Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to fund lab-grown meat
Eighty-five years ago, Winston Churchill wrote an article for Popular Mechanics that predicted humans would soon be growing their meat rather than cultivating animals for it.Now, with $17 million in...
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An algorithm that recreates 3D objects from tiny 2D images
With a lifetime of observing the world informing our perceptions, we’re all pretty good at inferring the overall shape of something we only see from the side, or for a brief moment. Computers, however,...
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Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine
The New York Times crossword has been an integral part of daily life for many people since it started appearing in print in 1942. When The Times built its first website in 1996, a digital version of...
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Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars
In a corner of Alphabet’s campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars. No journalist has ever seen it in action until now. They call it Carcraft,...
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Billionaire Porn King Reinvents Himself as Japan's Startup Guru
Imagine the publisher of Pornhub.com being asked to address Harvard University undergraduates on the virtues of running a socially responsible business. That’s basically what happened in Japan this...
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A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four Decades
This tiny set of crucibles is the world's first thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR) experiment in over 45 years.“This is a technology with much perspective for large scale energy production. We want to...
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Gtk-rs: The huge and long awaited release is finally here
It has been a long time since the last release (4 months already!). We wanted to be sure everything was ready before releasing this one. A lot of new adds, bug fixes and other surprises are there, have...
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Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices
Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Market will be finalized Monday, and shoppers will see an immediate markdown in prices on a number of items, including salmon, avocados, baby kale and...
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Off-main-thread HTML parsing in Servo
Originally published on Nikhil’s blog.IntroductionTraditionally, browsers have been written as single threaded applications, and the html spec certainly seems to validate this statement. This makes it...
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Making your first dollar from a SaaS project
This morning, I woke up to something very surprising in my inbox:Mixed in with the standard “Someone’s getting placecards!” emails that I get pretty regularly was an email I had only ever seen before...
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How did “Handbook for Mortals” get on the NYT bestseller list?
Did This Book Buy Its Way Onto The New York Times Bestseller List?Publishing is a tough industry. Building an audience can be hard, competition is tight, profit margins even tighter, and most authors...
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Headphone startup Kanoa shuts down
Dear backers of KANOA,Over the past 2 years you have joined KANOA on this journey to create something special. Despite the many challenges and setbacks, you have continued to support us, and for that...
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The Dying Art of Courtroom Illustration
On a recent gray August Monday at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse, illustrator Jane Rosenberg found herself craning her neck and scrabbling for her pastels. The infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El...
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