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Forced Out by Deadly Fires, Then Trapped in Traffic
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NY Times
Forced Out by Deadly Fires, Then Trapped in Traffic
The infernos raging at both ends of California have created a double nightmare for residents. Many who fled fires found themselves stuck on traffic-clogged roads. Some died in their cars.
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An elevator in a Chicago skyscraper fell 84 floors, requiring a dramatic rescue
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Washington Post
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Oscar Wilde’s Radical Wit
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Lapham’s Quarterly
Oscar Wilde’s Radical Wit
On laughter and thought in the famed writer’s essays.
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China blacklists millions from booking flights as 'social credit' introduced
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The Independent
China blacklists millions of people from booking flights as dystopian 'social credit' system introduced
Officials say aim is to make it ‘difficult to move’ for those deemed ‘untrustworthy’
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UnicodeMath – A Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics (2016) [pdf]
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Use `make` to save time
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freeCodeCamp.org
Want to know the easiest way to save time? Use `make`!
People have always looked for ways to make their work easier. It is a matter of debate whether using tools and automation are distinct…
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What a Real Train System Looks Like (2009)
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Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and UAE over Yemen
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The Defense Post
Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and UAE over Yemen
Finland will not issue new arms export authorisations to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates due to concerns over the humanitarian situation in Yemen
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4,000-year-old termite mounds found in Brazil are visible from space
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EurekAlert!
4,000-year-old termite mounds found in Brazil are visible from space
Researchers reporting in Current Biology on Nov. 19 have found that a vast array of regularly spaced, still-inhabited termite mounds in northeastern Brazil--covering an area the size of Great Britain -- are up to about 4,000 years old.
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Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly
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Medium
Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly
Having created my first app using Flutter, I weigh up the technology’s pros and cons against React Native
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Mac mini review–a testament to Apple’s stubbornness
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Ars Technica
Mac mini review—a testament to Apple’s stubbornness
Four years in the making, is the Mac mini finally worth buying?
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How a Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes – And a Global Sweatshop
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Forbes
How A Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes—And A Global Software Sweatshop
Two decades ago, Joe Liemandt became the youngest member of the Forbes 400 by building a software juggernaut. He’s quietly bigger than ever, with a far darker model.
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Some notes about HTTP/3
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Erratasec
Some notes about HTTP/3
HTTP/3 is going to be standardized. As an old protocol guy, I thought I'd write up some comments. Google (pbuh) has both the most popular ...
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Where China is looking to land its 2020 Mars rover
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www.planetary.org
Here's where China is looking to land its 2020 Mars rover
NASA's Mars 2020 rover isn't the only spacecraft heading to Mars in two years.
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What's Going on in Your Child's Brain When You Read Them a Story?
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KQED
What's Going On In Your Child's Brain When You Read Them A Story? | KQED
There are many ways young children encounter stories. A new study finds a "Goldilocks effect," where a cartoon may be "too hot" and audiobooks "too cold" for learning readers.
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Advanced deep learning and reinforcement learning course taught by DeepMind
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Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup
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The Cloudflare Blog
Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup
I was particularly interested in one of the consequences of how dynamic RAM works. You see, each bit of data is stored by the charge (or lack of it) on a tiny capacitor within the RAM chip. But these capacitors gradually lose their charge over time.
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Mountain Gorillas Are Doing Better
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Nytimes
Is There Hope for These Great Apes?
Mountain gorillas are faring better — perhaps because some humans just won’t listen to reason.
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Using carbon nanotubes and rectennas to yield a 90% efficient solar cell
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pv magazine USA
All I want for Christmas is a 90% efficient solar panel
NovaSolix hopes to use carbon nanotubes to capture a broader portion of the sun's electromagnetic spectrum, a process they hope will yield a 90% efficient solar cell at a tenth of the cost of modern solar modules.
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The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager
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Vox
The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager
A former warehouse manager shares what the Black Friday shift is like.
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The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard
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