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Why hardware development is hard, part 1: Verilog is weird (2013)
Why hardware development is hard, part 1: Verilog is weirdWhy hardware development is hard, part 1: Verilog is weirdVerilog is the most commonly used language for hardware design in America (VHDL is...
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How Steve Jobs Became a Billionaire
Illustration by Steven Wilson for Fortune October 19, 2016, 6:30 AM EDT I arrived at Pixar in February 1995. Steve didn’t give me any specific instruction for what to do first. Ed Catmull, cofounder...
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Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter
7 signs that you’re focused on stuff that doesn’t matter, and how to snap out of it.“I love startups. I hate the startup scene.”I was having lunch with a friend of mine, and he was mad.He’s founded and...
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Why America Needs India’s Rockets
Like other big contractors, American space companies have long expected some friendly support from their government. And Uncle Sam has usually been more than happy to help. Sometimes, though,...
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A.I. accurately predicted the full baseball post-season back in July
UNU, the Artificial Swarm Intelligence that correctly predicted the Oscars and Kentucky Derby, accurately predicted the full baseball post-season back in JulySAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 3,...
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Web fonts, boy, I don't know
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Mars: Inside the High-Risk, High-Stakes Race to the Red Planet
Four days after returning from nearly a yearon the International Space Station—a dry run for a Mars voyage—Mikhail Kornienko drives a simulated Mars rover at Star City, the Russian cosmonaut training...
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Visual Studio Code 1.7.1
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BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS
BearSSLBearSSL is an implementation of the SSL/TLS protocol (RFC 5246) written in C. It aims at offering the following features:Be correct and secure. In particular, insecure protocol versions and...
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Flv.js – An HTML5 Flash Video Player
README.mdAn HTML5 Flash Video (FLV) Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash. LONG LIVE FLV!This project, inspired by hls.js, relies on Media Source Extensions to work.Overviewflv.js works by...
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MicroG Project: A re-implementation of Google's Android apps and libraries
A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries.AboutThe linux-based open-source mobile operating system Android is not only the most popular mobile...
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Rules for Writing Safety Critical Code (2006)
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Quantum Honeybees (1997)
Honeybees don’t have much in the way of brains. Their inch-long bodies hold at most a few million neurons. Yet with such meager mental machinery honeybees sustain one of the most intricate and explicit...
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Introducing Google Home
Far-field voice recognition.Far-field microphones and industry-leading natural language processing ensure Google Home hears you reliably.Touch controls.The top touch surface gives you total control,...
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“Ultrasonic cross-device tracking” embeds inaudible tones in advertisements
Dystopian corporate surveillance threats today come at us from all directions. Companies offer “always-on” devices that listen for our voice commands, and marketers follow us around the web to create...
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Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes”
Image copyrightPASmoking leaves an "archaeological record" of the hundreds of DNA mutations it causes, scientists have discovered.Having sequenced thousands of tumour genomes, they found a 20-a-day...
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The Mega Rich Have Found an Unlikely New Refuge
When Hong Kong-based financier Michael Nock wanted a place to escape in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, he looked beyond the traditional havens of the rich to a land at the edge of the...
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Want to Know What Virtual Reality Might Become? Look to the Past
The moment suggested a tantalizing possibility: that the mass extinction of all those 19th-century spectacles, all those illusion palaces and contraptions, might itself prove to be a kind of mirage....
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The Competitive Landscape for Machine Intelligence
Three years ago, our venture capital firm began studying startups in artificial intelligence. AI felt misunderstood, burdened by expectations from science fiction, and so for the last twoyears we’ve...
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