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Introducing Custom Elements
A little over a year ago, we announced the introduction of slot-based shadow DOM API, a lightweight mechanism to encapsulate a DOM tree by allowing a creation of a parallel DOM tree on an element...
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NSA Said to Use Manhattan Tower as Listening Post
On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy. — E.B. White, “Here Is New York,” 1949From a sidewalk in Lower Manhattan, the building...
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102M dead California trees 'unprecedented in our modern history'
The number of dead trees in California’s drought-stricken forests has risen dramatically to more than 102 million in what officials described as an unparalleled ecological disaster that heightens the...
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GNU Octave
Executable versions of GNU Octave for GNU/Linux systems are provided by the individual distributions. Distributions known to package Octave include Debian,Ubuntu,Fedora,Gentoo, andopenSUSE. These...
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Who Will Command the Robot Armies?
When John Allsopp invited me here, I told him how excited I was discuss a topic that's been heavy on my mind: accountability in automated systems.But then John explained that in order for the economics...
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Intel is laying off a major portion of its wearables group
According to sources close to the company, Intel is about to step back from wearables in a big way.In 2014, the company purchased Basis, a little-known producer of some truly excellent fitness watches....
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NIH Scientists Identify Antibody That Neutralizes Nearly All HIV Strains
Scientists from the National Institutes of Health have identified an antibody from an HIV-infected person that potently neutralized 98 percent of HIV isolates tested, including 16 of 20 strains...
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EmDrive study officially published
Nomenclatureaacceleration, m/s2Bmagnetic field, Tcvacuum speed of light, m/sEelectric field, V/mFforce, Nffrequency, Hzfforce density, N/m3hPlanck constant, J·snphotonnumber density of photons,...
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On teaching mathematics, by V.I. Arnold (1997)
V.I. Arnold, On teaching mathematics This is an extended text of the address at the discussion on teaching of mathematics in Palais de Découverte in Paris on 7 March 1997. Mathematics is a part of...
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Proof of Stake by Fred Wilson
There is a lot of cutting edge computer science being used in blockchain technology and, because there are multiple blockchains and protocols being proposed and tested, there are various experiments...
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Archeology Gives History a Makeover
Excavating the Revolutionary War battlefield at Saratoga, archeologists helped rewrite the battle’s history in surprising ways, including their determination that women fought.In 1972 I began a...
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Second Chinese Firm in a Week Found Hiding Backdoor in Android Devices
Security researchers have discovered that third-party firmware included with over 2.8 million low-end Android smartphones allows attackers to compromise Over-the-Air (OTA) update operations and...
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Reinforcement learning with unsupervised auxiliary tasks
The combination of these auxiliary tasks, together with our previous A3C paper is our new UNREAL agent (UNsupervised REinforcement and Auxiliary Learning). We tested this agent on a suite of 57 Atari...
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Anatomy of a Program in Memory (2009)
Memory management is the heart of operating systems; it is crucial for both programming and system administration. In the next few posts I’ll cover memory with an eye towards practical aspects, but...
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WebExtensions in Firefox 52
Firefox 52 landed in Developer Edition this week, so we have another update on WebExtensions for you. WebExtensions are becoming the standard for add-on development in Firefox.API ParityThe sessions...
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Spikey Spheres
A word of warning ... I'm presenting here something called an analogy. It's not perfect, it has problems, it's not exact, but there are ways in which it can aid your thinking. I'm giving a way of...
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Tutorial – Write a System Call
Stephen Brennan • 14 November 2016A while back, I wrote about writing a shell in C, a task which lets you peek under the covers of a tool you use daily. Underneath even a simple shell are many...
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Let’s replace Twitter with something much better
I love that by following certain people, my timeline has become a stream of interesting and entertaining information. I love that sometimes I am able to fit my little publication just so into the 140...
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US launches next-gen weather satellite that will revolutionize forecasting
In this video, NOAA explains how the GOES-R satellite launching from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Fla., on Nov. 19 will work to provide data on hurricanes, tornadoes and other weather events...
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Computer Science courses with video lectures
README.mdIntroductionList of Computer Science courses with video lectures.Please note:Focus would be to keep the list to the point so that it is readable and usable. To access...
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