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Humble Book Bundle: Unix
Unix, I nix. We called up our friends at O'Reilly to put together this bundle of Unix resources for all! Find your nutshell reference, your pocket guide, and your power tools here. We've got you...
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Freelance Isn't Free Act Passes in NYC with 51 Votes
In a truly historic moment, New York City became the first city in the nation to protect freelance workers against client nonpayment today on October 27, 2016. This landmark victory is a testament to...
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Cash Ban the Best Thing to Happen to Indian Digital Payments
Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s Twitter feed has come alive these past two weeks. From a roadside egg-seller in Bhopal to a soda hawker in Bangalore, the founder of Paytm has posted snapshots of the unusual...
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A practical guide to securing macOS
README.mdThis is a collection of thoughts on securing a modern Apple Mac computer using macOS (formerly "OS X") 10.12 "Sierra", as well as steps to improving online privacy.This guide is targeted to...
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Microsoft Solitaire Collection
DescriptionThe World's #1 Solitaire game is now on iPhone and iPad!For over 25 years, Microsoft Solitaire Collection remains one of the most played games of all time and is now available FREE for your...
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ArangoDB Closes 2.2M Euro Investment Led by Target Partners
Munich/Cologne (Germany), November 24th, 2016: – ArangoDB GmbH (www.arangodb.com), the company behind one of the fastest growing next generation databases, has landed a 2.2 million Euro investment led...
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Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
Authors:Melvin Johnson, Mike Schuster, Quoc V. Le, Maxim Krikun, Yonghui Wu, Zhifeng Chen, Nikhil Thorat, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Greg Corrado, Macduff Hughes, Jeffrey Dean(Submitted on 14...
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Forbidden Spheres
Spheres are special shapes for nuclear weapons designers. Most nuclear weapons have, somewhere in them, that spheres-within-spheres arrangement of the implosion nuclear weapon design. You don’t have to...
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Authenticity in the Age of the Fake
The announcement of synthetic diamonds in 1955 was met with the same kind of alarm and skepticism that greeted claims to have made alchemical gold in the Middle Ages. Could these “fake” gems, created...
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Schiaparelli landing investigation makes progress
Schiaparelli’s heat-scorched shield23 November 2016 Good progress has been made in investigating the ExoMars Schiaparelli anomaly of 19 October. A large volume of data recovered from the Mars lander...
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Shake Shack Bets Against Peak Burger
Restaurants“We’ve heard people are eating more healthy food for the past 30 years,” the company’s CEO says as he prepares a British expansionNovember 24, 2016 — 8:35 AM ESTShake Shack, countering...
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Go master Cho wins best-of-three series against Japan-made AI
Go master Cho Chikun triumphed Wednesday in his final game against DeepZenGo, a Japanese artificial intelligence system, to win the three-game series 2-1.Cho, 60, has won 74 titles, the largest number...
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Wikipedia Editor Says Site’s Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide
(Editor's note: The National Suicide Prevention Hotline is toll-free in the US and available 24/7 at 1-800-273-8255, while suicide.org has a list of international suicide hotlines, including Canada and...
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Senegal to Introduce a New Blockchain Based National Digital Currency
Senegal has recently become only the second country in the world which will introduce a new national digital currency. Named eCFA, the digital currecy will be blockchain based and will be legal tender...
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Apollo moon mission coder awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
23 November 2016From the section US & CanadaShareShare this withEmailShare this with EmailFacebookShare this with FacebookMessengerShare this with MessengerMessengerShare this with...
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Ideas for Startups (2005)
October 2005(This essay is derived from a talk at the 2005 Startup School.)How do you get good ideas for startups? That's probably the number one question people ask me.I'd like to reply with another...
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Android N Encryption
Over the past few years we’ve heard more about smartphone encryption than, quite frankly, most of us expected to hear in a lifetime. We learned that proper encryption can slow down even sophisticated...
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Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voting Machine
The Wildfire is an opinion platform and any opinions or information put forth by contributors are exclusive to them and do not represent the views of IJR.Edward Snowden has gained quite a notorious...
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Why I don't like smartcards, HSMs, YubiKeys, etc.
This is a rant about smartcards with some digression into ranting about the integrated circuit industry.The smartcard that didn't existSmartcards and HSMs are essentially two “brands” for the same...
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Pinebook ARM Linux Laptop Powered by Allwinner A64 CPU
Following up on Pine A64 board powered by Allwinner A64 quad core Cortex A53 processor, Pine64 has decided to work on a software compatible laptop based on the processor. PINEBOOK comes with 2GB RAM,...
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