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Parachuting Beavers into Idaho's Wilderness? Yes, It Really Happened (2015)
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Boise State Public Radio
Parachuting beavers into Idaho's wilderness? Yes, it really happened
More than 60 years ago, Idaho Fish and Game dropped beavers out of a plane and parachuted them into the state's backcountry. This little-known piece of Idaho history stars a crafty Fish and Game officer and a plucky male beaver named Geronimo.
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Google employees: We no longer believe the company places values over profits
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CNBC
Google employees: We no longer believe the company places values over profits
In an open letter, Google employees are calling on the company to cancel its efforts to create a censored version of its search app for the Chinese market. The so-called Project Dragonfly has drawn criticism from human rights groups and U.S. politicians since…
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9 Ways to Build Virality into Your Product
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Medium
9 Ways to Build Virality into your Product
If your startup is building a consumer product, your product has to be viral. For consumer products, the average revenue per user tends to…
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How to balance full-time work with creative projects
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The Creative Independent
How to balance full-time work with creative projects
A guide to finding the right day job, protecting your time, and building creative habits by Jeffrey Silverstein. Illustrated by Sunny Eckerle.
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Announcing the Winners of the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
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Medium
Announcing the winners of the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
The MIT Media Lab’s 2018 Disobedience Award will be shared by three leaders of the #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM movement. Tarana Burke, founder…
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AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites
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Amazon
AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites | Amazon Web Services
Did you know that there are currently thousands of satellites orbiting the Earth? I certainly did not, and would have guessed a few hundred at most. Today, high school and college students design, fabricate, and launch nano-, pico-, and even femto-satellites…
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China Expands Research Funding, Luring U.S. Scientists and Students
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A simple tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats
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GitHub
GitHub - Spandan-Madan/Me_Bot: Build a bot that speaks like you!
Build a bot that speaks like you! Contribute to Spandan-Madan/Me_Bot development by creating an account on GitHub.
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AWS Firecracker Open Source: Secure and Fast MicroVM for Serverless Computing
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Amazon
Announcing the Firecracker Open Source Technology: Secure and Fast microVM for Serverless Computing | Amazon Web Services
中文版 New Challenges for Virtualization Today, our customers can use serverless computing to build applications without worrying about provisioning or managing infrastructure. Developers can package their code as serverless containers with AWS Fargate or serverless…
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Police Use of Force: An Examination of Modern Policing Practices [pdf]
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McKernel – A lightweight multi-kernel OS for high performance computing
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Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision
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Deadspin
Armageddon Looms Over The World Chess Championship After Magnus Carlsen's Shocking Decision
LONDON — There’s been drama worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy at the World Chess Championship, as Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana have fought to a draw in each of their 12 head-to-head games, sending the match to overtime with a day of tiebreaks to decide…
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Bitfinex will no longer treat Tether as 1:1 conversion
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Twitter
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(@Bitfinexed). First to expose the Bitfinex/Tether Fraud Covered by The New York Times, Bloomberg & The Wall St. Journal. Igne natura renovatur integra. 15kYzB3h8ASNoJf4NyVJ4X3ub5TzcMcgBW
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Fact vs. Fiction: Truths from Inside the Shaolin Temple
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RADII - Transcend boundaries
Life with China’s Shaolin Monks: Fact vs. Fiction
Shaolin monks. Two words with a lot of weight. The phrase immediately conjures up images of bald monks in orange robes, superhuman Shaolin martial arts, and Buddhist isolation. That’s pretty unique, as far as multi-million dollar per year enterprises go.…
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Planckian Dissipation, Strange Metals, and a Quantum Speed Limit
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The Atlantic
A Break in the Quest for the Quantum Speed Limit
“When you see that, you know you’re touching on something very, very deep and fundamental.”
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Amazon DynamoDB Transactions
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Amazon
New – Amazon DynamoDB Transactions | Amazon Web Services
May 20, 2024: As of September 2022, DynamoDB now supports 100 items per transactions. March 13, 2020: Post updated to clarify how to use transactions with global tables and the increase in the maximum number of items per transaction from 10 to 25. Over the…
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A Business with No End
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Nytimes
A Business With No End (Published 2018)
Where does this strange empire start or stop?
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South Koreans lock themselves up to escape prison of daily life
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Amazon Starts Selling Software to Mine Patient Health Records
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WSJ
Big Tech Expands Footprint in Health
Amazon.com has begun to sell software that mines patient medical records for information doctors and hospitals could use to improve treatment and cut costs, the latest move by a big technology company into the health-care industry.
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Make School (YC W12) gains accreditation for 2-year applied CS bachelor’s degree
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TechCrunch
YC alum Make School gains rare accreditation for 2-year applied CS bachelor’s degree
Higher education is a mess. College students spend years learning arcana and quaint academic theories, only to be thrust into the harsh light of the workplace where they are ill-equipped to handle even the most mundane task. A crisis, a moral failure or perhaps…
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Two Cybercrime Rings and Eight Defendants Indicted for Digital Advertising Fraud
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www.justice.gov
Two International Cybercriminal Rings Dismantled and Eight Defendants
A 13-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Aleksandr Zhukov, Boris Timokhin, Mikhail Andreev, Denis Avdeev, Dmitry Novikov, Sergey Ovsyannikov, Aleksandr Isaev and Yevgeniy Timchenko with criminal violations for their involvement…
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