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Large Balloon Reflector: a potentially game-changing antenna design
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NASA
NASA Tech Breathes Life Into Potentially Game-Changing Antenna Design - NASA
Some 30 years ago, a young engineer named Christopher Walker was home in the evening making chocolate pudding when he got what turned out to be a very
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It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18M settlement
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The Register
It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18m settlement
Minimum of $15,000 per plaintiff, after lawyers' fees. Justice is done!
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The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete
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WIRED
The Destruction of Gaza’s Internet Is Complete
As Israel increases its ground operation in Gaza, the last remaining internet and mobile connections have gone dark.
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Krita is now available on the macOS store
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Krita
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Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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After 28 years, SSLv2 is still not gone from the internet
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SANS Internet Storm Center
Internet Storm Center Diary 2024-01-30 - SANS Internet Storm Center
Internet Storm Center Diary 2024-01-30, Author: Johannes Ullrich
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Visualizing quaternions (2018)
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eater.net
Visualizing quaternions, an explorable video series
Explaining how quaternions, a four-dimensional number system, describe 3d rotation.
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New devices could change the way we measure blood pressure
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Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews
New devices could change the way we measure blood pressure
Embedded in a cell phone or in accessories such as rings, bracelets or watches, the novel tools aim to make it easier to manage hypertension. But they must still pass several tests before hitting the clinic.
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X Engineering Year Retrospective
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X (formerly Twitter)
Engineering (@XEng) on X
This has been a year full of engineering excellence that sometimes can go unnoticed. Besides all the visible changes you see on our app, here are some of the most important improvements we have made under the hood.
- Consolidated the tech stacks for For…
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Google can turn ANC earbuds into a heart rate monitor with no extra hardware
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9to5Google
Google can turn ANC earbuds into a heart rate monitor with no extra hardware
Google today detailed its research into audioplethysmography (APG) that adds heart rate sensing capabilities to ANC headphones and earbuds…
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Show HN: Encrypt and upload files to IPFS from browser
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When Gradient Descent Is a Kernel Method
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Show HN: A local Python prototyping tool for Jupyter and Streamlit
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GitHub
GitHub - galenmarchetti/jupyter-notebook-package: A Kurtosis package for Python data engineers, deploying a Jupyter notebook along…
A Kurtosis package for Python data engineers, deploying a Jupyter notebook along with a configurable set of databases, and a visualization tool (Streamlit) - galenmarchetti/jupyter-notebook-package
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Project Bluefin Linux
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projectbluefin.io
The next generation cloud-native Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability.
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Scientists simulate backward time travel using quantum entanglement
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The Debrief
Scientists Successfully Simulate Backward Time Travel with a 25% Chance of Actually Changing the Past
Scientists say they have simulated backward time travel system with a 25% chance of successfully changing the past.
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"Useless Ruby sugar": Pattern matching (Pt. 2)
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zverok.space
“Useless Ruby sugar”: Pattern matching (Pt. 2)
...or, “but mah polymorphism and encapsulation!”
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SDRangel: Explore the electromagnetic spectrum with open source SDR software
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GitHub
GitHub - f4exb/sdrangel: SDR Rx/Tx software for Airspy, Airspy HF+, BladeRF, HackRF, LimeSDR, PlutoSDR, RTL-SDR, SDRplay and FunCube
SDR Rx/Tx software for Airspy, Airspy HF+, BladeRF, HackRF, LimeSDR, PlutoSDR, RTL-SDR, SDRplay and FunCube - f4exb/sdrangel
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Solitary Confinement's Unlikely Origins
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The Public Domain Review
The Silent Treatment: Solitary Confinement’s Unlikely Origins
Characterised today by the noise of banging, buzzers, and the cries of inmates, solitary confinement was originally developed from Quaker ideas about the redemptive power of silence, envisioned as a humane alternative to the punitive violence of late-18th…
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The bacterial horror of hot-air hand dryers (2018)
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Harvard Health
The bacterial horror of hot-air hand dryers - Harvard Health
Researchers testing the dispersal of bacteria in public restrooms found that the hand dryers were picking up bacterial deposits, likely from aerosolized microbes caused by the flushing of uncovered...
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Can the language of proof assistants be used for general purpose programming?
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Proof Assistants Stack Exchange
Can the language of proof assistants be used for general purpose programming?
Planning on learning lean/lean4, I was wondering if a proof assistant system like lean4 can be used for general purpose programming?
For example, can it replace a language like Standard ML?
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A small warning about UDP based protocols
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The Boston Diaries
A small warning about UDP based protocols - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm
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Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom
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