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First ‘water-wave’ laser created
Artistic illustration of “Water-Wave” Laser. Credit: Technion Spokesperson’s OfficeTechnion researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, that laser emissions can be created through the...
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Radeon Instinct – Optimized Machine and Deep Learning
“Our passion is gaming. Our work is professional. Our instinct has always been computing. And that’s what Radeon Instinct is all about.”Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Radeon...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered
Mr. Prate, 55, asked for a second opinion from Patrick de Bayser, an independent dealer and adviser in old master drawings, who examined the St. Sebastian in Paris. Mr. de Bayser asked, “Have you seen...
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To Build a Better Ballot
click & dragthe candidates and the voter:It's a tough choice. Triangle's got some sharp points, but Square understands more sides! Alas, in the end, you can only vote for one.Of course, there's...
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Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier
In 2012, I signed the Cost of Knowledge pledge, and stopped reviewing for, and publishing in, all Elsevier journals. In the four years since, I’ve adhered closely to this policy; with a couple of...
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How Discord handles over a million requests per minute with Elixir’s GenStage
Discord has seen tremendous growth. To handle this growth, our engineering team has had the pleasure of figuring out how to scale the backend services.One piece of technology we’ve seen great success...
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YC's Winter Reading List
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation “It’s amazing how prolific Bell Labs was — the transistor, information theory, Unix, amongst other creations — but it’s fascinating...
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Sovereign Software: peer to peer democracy
Sovereign is a decentralized governance platform for small & large organizations.Sovereign is a free & open source project.If you want to collaborate with pull requests(features, fixes, issues,...
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Mystery of London fog that killed 12,000 finally solved
It had been somewhat of a mystery why a fog in London in 1952 left more than 4,000 people dead. A team of scientists now believe they have solved the mystery of the exact cause and nature of the...
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Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
MicrosoftMicrosoft has hit a hardware home run that surprised even the people in Redmond. The Surface Hub conference room PC turns out to be selling like hotcakes, surpassing everyone's...
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Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor
Kakoune provides an efficient code editing environment, both very predictible, hence scriptable, and very interactive. Its learning curve is considerably easier than Vim thanks to a more consistent...
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Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Steps Down
Iribe says that he and Jon Thomason, who recently joined the company to lead the mobile VR side of things, will work with Oculus parent company Facebook's CTO Mike Schroepfer to find a new leader for...
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PR 101 for engineers
Craig Kerstiens, all around great guy and product master at Citus Data, did a mini-tweetstorm about PR from the perspective of a non-marketing person.1/ One of the most foreign things for me to learn...
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Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
2 million miles self-drivenSince we started at Google in 2009, we’ve accumulated the equivalent of over 300 years of human driving experience, largely on city streets. That’s on top of 1 billion...
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HIP: Convert CUDA to Portable C++ Code
README.mdWhat is this repository for?HIP allows developers to convert CUDA code to portable C++. The same source code can be compiled to run on NVIDIA or AMD GPUs. Key features include:HIP is very...
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Angular 4 will be the next version of Angular
This is a guest blog post by Juri Strumpflohner. Juri is a full-stack developer, architect and tech lead with a passion for frontend development, especially Angular. Juri writes technical articles on...
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Slack Calls: Now with video
Since we added voice calling to Slack earlier this year, teams have used the phone icon to make calls across the office and around the world. Now this handy button does even more: one-to-one and group...
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