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Find You: Building a stealth AirTag clone
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Find You: Building a stealth AirTag clone | Positive Security
We built an AirTag clone capable of silently and continuously tracking someone. The device accomplishes this by sending just one beacon per generated public key, thereby staying invisible to tracking notifications for iOS users and Apple’s Tracker Detect…
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Show HN: Arduino 6502 Controller
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GitHub - billziss-gh/arduino-6502ctl: Arduino 6502 Controller
Arduino 6502 Controller. Contribute to billziss-gh/arduino-6502ctl development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Apple retail employees organize a union using Android phones to prevent spying
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Apple Employees Are Unionizing and They’re Using Android Phones to Keep Apple From Spying on Them
Apple retail employees are beginning to quietly organize a union but have to use Android phones to avoid the company spying on them.
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How to figure out the size of the moon yourself
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Of Particular Significance
How to Figure Out the Size of the Moon Yourself
Having confirmed we live on a spherical, spinning Earth whose circumference, diameter and radius are roughly 25000, 8000, and 4000 miles (40000, 13000, and 6500 km) respectively, it’s time to…
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An elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency
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Jobfished: the con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency
Dozens of young people were tricked into thinking they were working for a glamorous UK design agency - which didn’t really exist.
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SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (Nee HyperNeWS) (2018)
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SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (nee HyperNeWS (nee GoodNeWS))
HyperLook was like HyperCard for NeWS, with PostScript graphics and noscripting plus networking. Here are three unique and wacky examples…
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Feynman’s advice to W&M student resonates 45 years later (2020)
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William & Mary
Feynman’s advice to W&M student resonates 45 years later
Early in her career as a William & Mary student, Beulah Elizabeth Cox turned in a physics exam that contained what became one of the most famous incorrect answers in science.
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Hyperloop lays off half of its employees as it pivots away from passenger travel
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Business Insider
Virgin Hyperloop lays off half of its employees as it pivots away from passenger travel
The hyperloop transport company laid off over 100 employees as it shifts its focus from passenger travel to cargo transport.
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Valencia's irrigation system is now a model for sustainable farming
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Spain's ingenious water maze
Invented by the region's Moorish rulers 1,200 years ago, Valencia's irrigation system is now a model for sustainable farming.
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I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss
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Twist: MIT’s Quantum Programming Language
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IEEE Spectrum
Meet Twist: MIT’s Quantum Programming Language
Twist's syntax enables a developer to discover or specify which pieces of data are entangled and which ones aren’t, says MIT's Charles Yuan. “By including information about entanglement inside a program," he says, "You can check that a quantum algorithm is…
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Why learn Racket? A student's perspective
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Why learn Racket? A student's perspective - Micah Cantor
A few thoughts on why I think you should learn Racket.
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Putin will recognise breakaway regions as independent states, Kremlin confirms
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Luhansk and Donetsk regions recognised as independent states by Russia – as it happened
Russian president has recognised Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk regions as independent states: Zelenskiy says ‘we are not afraid’. Follow the latest updates
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New Study Disavows Marshmallow Test’s Predictive Powers
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New Study Disavows Marshmallow Test's Predictive Powers - UCLA Anderson Review
For years, parents and scientists have turned to the marshmallow test for clues about kids’ futures. But new research dispels the theory that to raise successful kids, we must teach them to resist that first marshmallow.
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There was a time before Mathematica (2013)
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There Was a Time before Mathematica…—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Articles by Stephen Wolfram covering artificial intelligence, computational science and computational thinking, data science, education, future and historical perspectives, sciences, software design, technology, Wolfram products, more.
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The CDC Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects
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NY Times
The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects (Published 2022)
The agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations and, until recently, wastewater analyses.
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Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions
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Reuters
Putin orders Russian forces to "perform peacekeeping functions" in eastern Ukraine's breakaway regions
President Vladimir Putin ordered his defence ministry to despatch Russian forces to "perform peacekeeping functions" in eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions, according to a decree published early on Tuesday after he said Moscow would recognise their independence.
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Camp that imprisoned 7000 Japanese Americans could become National Historic Site
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Axios
Amache, a Japanese American incarceration camp, poised to become National Historic Site
The Amache National Historic Site Act cleared the Senate unanimously this week.
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Dutch antitrust authority fines Apple for fifth time
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Fosspatents
Dutch antitrust authority fines Apple for fifth time (aggregate: €25M) over alleged non-compliance with dating-app payment system…
Dutch tech reporter Nando Kasteleijn of NOS just reported on Twitter that the Authority for Consumers & Markets--the Dutch antitrust author...
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A PM's guide to communicate effectively with software engineers
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Mind the Product
Effective communication with software engineers
In today's article, Simón Muñoz shares some tips on communicating effectively with engineering teams that he has been learning throughout his career, as well as elaborating on why it's important
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Coinbase CEO tweets how they came up with Super Bowl ad, lied about it
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Web3 is Going Just Great
Coinbase CEO tries to weave a compelling story about how their own team came up with a Super Bowl ad that "broke the rules on marketing"…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong embarked on a 12-tweet-long thread congratulating Coinbase employees for coming up with the bouncing QR code Super Bowl ad. He wrote, "I guess if there is a lesson here it is that constraints breed creativity, and that as founders…
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