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The EU wants to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content - generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child pornography. The…

Union Pacific will spend $100 million on battery-electric locomotives, the largest investment yet into the technology by a Class I

“Sighs, tears, grief, distress” expresses Johann Sebastian Bach in a musical example for the relationship between sighs and deep emotions. This review explores the neurobiological basis of the sigh and its relationship with psychology, ...

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Something odd happened through 2021 in the market for IPv4 addresses. Across 2021 the reported market price for the transfer of IPv4 addresses has doubled, from approximately USD $27 per IPv4 individual address at the end of 2020 to around USD $55 per address…

Octobers excite us at Halide HQ. Apple releases new iPhones, and they’re certain to upgrade the cameras. As the makers of a camera app, we tend to take a longer look at these upgrades. Where other reviews might come out immediately and offer a quick impression…

25 years after its Amiga debut, Team17 soldiers on with Worms and indie publishing.

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Emerging evidence indicates that gut microbiota is important in the regulation of brain activity and cognitive functions. Microbes mediate communication among the metabolic, peripheral immune, and central nervous systems via the microbiota–gut–brain ...

EU auditors found 15 EU member states gave more subsidies to fossil fuels than to renewable energies in 2020, despite their climate commitments. Their report warns phasing these subsidies out by 2025 will be "a challenging social and economic transition".

Buying a new monitor is stressful because there's so many things to understand. After reading this article, you will know what to look for.

As the Faculty of Computing and Information Science celebrates its 20th year, Frank Rosenblatt’s prescient research into artificial intelligence underscores Cornell’s pivotal role in computing history.

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Commonplace Newsletter #71

If Meta is not given the option to transfer, store and process data from its European users on US-based servers, Facebook and Instagram may be shut down across Europe, the social media giants’ owner reportedly warned in its annual report. The key issue for…

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As software developers, we’ve all come across those annoying, not-so-useful error messages when using some library or framework: "Couldn’t parse config…

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