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The rise of the robot farmer
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the Guardian
‘We'll have space bots with lasers, killing plants’: the rise of the robot farmer
Tiny automated machines could soon take care of the entire growing process. Fewer chemicals, more efficient – where’s the downside?
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The Marvel API
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Marvel
Marvel.com | The Official Site for Marvel Movies, Characters, Comics, TV
Marvel.com is the official site of Marvel Entertainment! Browse official Marvel movies, characters, comics, TV shows, videos, & more.
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The BNC Connector and How It Got That Way
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Hackaday
The BNC Connector and How It Got That Way
When I started working in a video production house in the early 1980s, it quickly became apparent that there was a lot of snobbery in terms of equipment. These were the days when the home video mar…
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GitLab 11.4 Released with Merge Request Reviews and Feature Flags
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GitLab
GitLab 11.4 released with Merge Request Reviews and Feature Flags
GitLab 11.4 released with Merge Request Reviews, Feature Flags, Git protocol v2, and much more!
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Repl.it
raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
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Repl.it raises $4.5M, announces a million monthly active users
We're thrilled to announce that we have raised a Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Marc Andreessen and Andrew Chen championing the deal.…
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Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of ‘Rift 2’ headset
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TechCrunch
Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of ‘Rift 2’ headset
Brendan Iribe, the co-founder and former CEO of Oculus, announced today that he is leaving Facebook, TechCrunch has learned. Iribe is leaving Facebook following some internal shake-ups in the company’s virtual reality arm last week that saw the cancellation…
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The Secretive Business of Facial-Recognition Software in Retail Stores
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New York
Smile! The Secretive Business of Facial-Recognition Software in Retail Stores
Madison Square Garden, and Kennedy International Airport both use facial-recognition software to identify their customers. Who else does?
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Two in Three Americans Now Support Legalizing Marijuana
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Gallup.com
Two in Three Americans Now Support Legalizing Marijuana
Americans' support for legalizing marijuana continues to set new records, with 66% of U.S. adults now in favor of making the drug legal.
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Space Transportation System
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Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also very exciting
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InfluxData
Rust is the most exciting thing in software development in a long time
Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but its also the most exciting thing in software development in a long time. Learn more by reading our blog.
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AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of Chinese spy chip story
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CNBC
Amazon cloud chief Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of Chinese spy chip story
AWS CEO Andy Jassy said in a tweet on Monday that Bloomberg should retract its story about Chinese spy chips. He was agreeing with Apple CEO Tim Cook, who told Buzzfeed last week that the story was wrong.
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RISC OS is being relicensed under the Apache license
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14-year-long oil spill in Gulf of Mexico may be worst in U.S. history
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Washington Post
A 14-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in U.S. history
For years, Taylor Energy and federal officials had kept quiet about it.
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Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System (1979) [pdf]
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The Chamber of Guf
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Slate Star Codex
The Chamber of Guf
[I briefly had a different piece up tonight discussing a conference, but the organizers asked me to hold off on writing about it until they’ve put up their own synopsis. It will be back up ev…
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Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
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Building Apps for Shopify: Fall In Love With The Problem, Not The Solution - Starter Story
One of the best pieces of advice I was given was to Fall in love with the problem, not the solution. And it wasn’t until I came across a big problem that I realized how perfect this advice is. -- My name is Ahmad Iqbal and I’m currently running two online…
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GM’s data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz
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The Verge
GM’s data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz
Connected cars produce tons of raw data, and advertisers want it all.
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Mozilla Announces Experimental Partnership with ProtonVPN
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Future Releases
Testing new ways to keep you safe online
Mozilla has long played an important role in the online world, and we’re proud of the impact we’ve had. But we want to do even more, and that means exploring ...
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TypeScript support added to Create React App
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GitHub
TypeScript support using Babel 7 by brunolemos · Pull Request #4837 · facebook/create-react-app
Adds TypeScript support.
Closes #4146
Closes #2815
The user can just rename .js to .tsx and it will work.
To enable type checking, the user needs to create a tsconfig.json file at the root director...
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iPhones are hard to use
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World’s Oldest Fossils Now Appear to Be Squished Rocks
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Quanta Magazine
World’s Oldest Fossils Now Appear to Be Squished Rocks
Evidence for life in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks appears to be crumbling away.
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