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Physicists discover ‘apparent departure from the laws of thermodynamics’
A microscopic sample of barium ions, shown in teal, immersed in a cloud of calcium atoms whose temperature is 1/1,000th of a degree above absolute zero. Credit: University of California, Los...
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Supersymmetry Bet Settled with Cognac
Physicists gathered in Copenhagen today to settle a high-profile wager on a leading theory of nature. The bet, made in 2000 just as construction began on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world’s...
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The Genius of James Brown
Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soulby James McBrideSpiegel and Grau, 232 pp., $28.00Gilles Caron/Contact Press ImagesJames Brown at the Olympia music hall, Paris,...
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Amateur Radio Sleuthing Pins Down Source of Strange RF Interference
08/09/2016Police in Evanston, Illinois, contacted the ARRL Lab, after an apparent interference source began plaguing wireless vehicle key fobs, cell phones, and other wireless electronics. Key fob...
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Startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 1
Farm drones, autonomous security guards and next-generation tampons were among the products presented at today’s Y Combinator startup accelerator Summer 2016 Demo Day 1.YC’s increased international...
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Flexport Is Hiring in Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and New York
Legal*Customs brokerage services are provided by Flexport’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Flexport LLC, a licensed customs brokerage with a national permit.*International ocean freight forwarding services...
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The Ethernet PAUSE frame
This is a bizarre one. It all started when the internet seemed to go out at my house. My desktop, phone, TV, everything stopped working. The usual solution at a time like this is to power cycle the...
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EpiPen Price Rise Sparks Concern for Allergy Sufferers
PhotoCredit Karen Kasmauski for The New York TimesA steep increase in the price of the EpiPen, a lifesaving injection device for people with severe allergies, has sparked outrage among consumers and...
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North Korea 'Netflix' device unveiled
Image copyrightGetty ImagesA set-top box offering video-on-demand services has been unveiled by the state broadcaster KCTV in North Korea, according to local reports.The box, called Manbang, has been...
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“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry in recent times, a whole generation of programmers are being taught the worst of all ways of doing concurrency, in a system that...
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Neural network spotted deep inside Samsung's Galaxy S7 silicon brain
Hot Chips Samsung has revealed the blueprints to its mystery M1 processor cores at the heart of its S7 and S7 Edge smartphones.International versions of the top-endAndroid mobiles, which went on sale...
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HoloLens secret sauce: A 28nm customized 24-core DSP engine built by TSMC
Hot Chips Microsoft today revealed a first look at the inside of its Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) chip used in its virtual reality HoloLens specs.The secretive HPU is a custom-designed...
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Animal migrations map
As climate change alters habitats and disrupts ecosystems, where will animals move to survive? And will human development prevent them from getting there?This map shows the average direction...
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Open-sourcing Pushprom: our solution to Prometheus data retrieval issues
A few months ago we decided to improve our monitoring setup at MessageBird. We surveyed what was available on the market and decided on Prometheus. It has a great querying language, it scales well,...
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Examining crime reports in San Francisco with SQL
22 Aug 2016Want to make data analysis fast for everyone?Join Us!When I first moved to San Francisco, my mother warned me “not to go looking for trouble”, but this can be difficult when you do not know...
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This Is Your Company on Blockchain
You don’t have to be an expert on digital currencies like bitcoin to be intrigued by the potential of the technology underlying them. Blockchain, as it’s called, is something new in computing. It...
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Arguments against JSON-driven development
I don't have to explain how popular JSON is. There are very few projects that don't need to work with JSON, even when they are not related to network programming. The ubiquity of JSON is causing some...
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How many x86 instructions are there?
It’s surprisingly hard to give a good answer (the question was raised in this article). It depends on how you count, and the details are interesting (to me anyway).To not leave you hanging: Intel has...
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Remote Internships at Zidisha (YC W14 Nonprofit)
Are you passionate about connecting people, helping communities grow, and making an impact around the world? We give volunteers and interns the unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in...
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Bash Infinity is a modern boilerplate / framework / standard library for bash
README.mdBash Infinity is a standard library and a boilerplate framework for writing tools using bash. It's modular and lightweight, while managing to implement some concepts from C#, Java or...
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