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Remastered 1964 films show origins of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Remastered 1964 films show origins of SLAC
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science laboratory operated by Stanford University.
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17th-century painting discovered behind a wall during renovation
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The Treasure Behind the Wall (Published 2019)
Something in the new Oscar de la Renta boutique in Paris was not what it seemed.
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An investigative reporter has changed his tech habits after what he has learned
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NY Times
He Reported on Facebook. Now He Approaches It With Caution.
Nick Confessore, an investigative reporter who has written about social media and data privacy, has changed his tech habits after what he has learned.
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Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting into Class
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NY Times
The Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting Into Class (Published 2019)
Student demand for computer science courses is outstripping the supply of professors, creating a student divide of computing haves and have-nots.
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Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China
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TechCrunch
Microsoft confirms Bing was down in China | TechCrunch
Microsoft's Bing was down in China, according to users who took to social media beginning Wednesday afternoon to complain and express concerns. The
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Show HN: CloudQuery – Turn any website to serverless API with SPA support
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GitHub
GitHub - t9tio/cloudquery: Turn any website to API by several clicks (serverless and support SPA!)
Turn any website to API by several clicks (serverless and support SPA!) - t9tio/cloudquery
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Geometric Understanding of Deep Learning (2018)
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arXiv.org
Geometric Understanding of Deep Learning
Deep learning is the mainstream technique for many machine learning tasks, including image recognition, machine translation, speech recognition, and so on. It has outperformed conventional methods...
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Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond
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GitHub
Yarn's Future - v2 and beyond · Issue #6953 · yarnpkg/yarn
Hi everyone, When the Yarn project started back in 2016, our landscape was very different from what it is now. Package locking was far from being a first class citizen in the Javanoscript ecosystem, ...
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American justice system ignores science in the pursuit of convictions
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NBC News
How bad science is being used to send people to prison
Forensic techniques including bite-mark comparisons and blood-spatter analysis have sent dozens of innocent people to prison.
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Una Corda, a piano with one string per note
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Klavins Piano
Una Corda - Klavins Piano
World First in Piano Building. Commissioned by and in cooperation with Nils Frahm we have developed the Una Corda Piano.
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A cartoon intro to WebAssembly (2017)
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Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
A cartoon intro to WebAssembly
WebAssembly is a way of taking code written in programming languages other than JavaScript and running that code in the browser. So when people say that WebAssembly is fast, what ...
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Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media
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Y Combinator
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media – Samantha Bradshaw
Samantha Bradshaw is a researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project and a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. She’s been tracking the phenomenon of political manipulation through social media.
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Why are pianos traditionally tuned “out of tune” at the extremes?
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Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange
Why are pianos traditionally tuned "out of tune" at the extremes?
My understanding is that the vast majority of western music uses equal temperament, i.e. all semitones have a frequency ratio of the 12th root of 2.
However I can hear in my piano that the notes at...
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Theranos CEO Says 'I Don't Know' 600+ Times in Deposition
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ABC News
Ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes says 'I don't know' 600-plus times in never-before-broadcast deposition tapes
elizabeth Holmes has since settled with the SEC, with no admission of wrongdoing, but is now facing up to 20 years in prison and awaiting a criminal trial.
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Threads Basics (2009)
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Google Search Operators: A Complete List
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SEO Blog by Ahrefs
Google Search Operators: The Complete List (44 Advanced Operators)
They're super powerful.
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Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)
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The Official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft acquires Citus Data, re-affirming its commitment to Open Source and accelerating Azure PostgreSQL performance and scale
Data and analytics are increasingly at the center of digital transformation, with the most leading-edge enterprises leveraging data to drive customer acquisition and satisfaction, long-term strategic planning, and expansion into net new markets. This digital…
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Oregon Bottle Deposit System Hits 90 Percent Redemption Rate
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www.opb.org
Oregon Bottle Deposit System Hits 90 Percent Redemption Rate
Oregon’s bottle deposit system is recycling more containers than ever before despite major disruptions in global recycling markets.
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Why We Dominate the Earth
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Farnam Street
Yuval Noah Harari: Why We Dominate the Earth
Why did Homo sapiens diverge from the rest of the animal kingdom and go on to dominate the earth? Communication? Cooperation? According to best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari, that barely scratches the surface.
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For $29, This Company Swears It Will ‘Brainwash’ Someone on Facebook
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The Daily Beast
For $29, This Company Swears It Will ‘Brainwash’ Someone on Facebook
A shadowy startup claims it can target an individual Facebook user to bend him or her to a client’s will. Experts are… not entirely convinced.
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Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan on Mac Users
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Medium
Confiant & Malwarebytes Uncover Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan On Mac Users
Recent months have seen an uptick in reports of JavaScript malware that hides in image files. This is often referred to as “image based…
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