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The “Impossible” Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine
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Hackaday
The “Impossible” Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine
Followers of the Church of Elon will no doubt already be aware of SpaceX’s latest technical triumph: the test firing of the first full-scale Raptor engine. Of course, it was hardly a secret. …
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Canada's forests emit more carbon than they absorb
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CBC
ANALYSIS | Canada's forests actually emit more carbon than they absorb — despite what you've heard on Facebook | CBC News
This country's managed forest land hasn't been a net carbon sink since 2001. That's because trees don't just absorb carbon when they grow, they emit it when they die and decompose, or burn.
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The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown (2009)
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WIRED
The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown
Brazilian satellite hackers use high-performance antennas and homebrew gear to turn U.S. Navy satellites into their personal CB radios. Photo: Divulgação/Polícia Federal CAMPINAS, Brazil — On the night of March 8, cruising 22,000 miles above the Earth, U.S.…
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Silicon Valley Is Using Trade Secrets to Hide Its Race Problem
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Electron is flash for the desktop
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Seph
Electron is flash for the desktop
What is slack doing? The process was in the background when this happened. I wasn't even interacting with it - I was in a meeting. I only noticed because my laptop fans were whurring when I got back. Restarting slack seemed to fix it for now. But that's not…
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Fast Perfect Hashing
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You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3
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Tom's Hardware
You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3
A new installer lets you put Windows 10 on Arm, including the the Raspberry Pi 3.
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Activision Blizzard Begins Massive Layoffs
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Kotaku
Activision Blizzard Lays Off Hundreds Of Employees
Publisher Activision Blizzard has begun its long-rumored layoff process, informing employees this afternoon that it will be cutting staff. On an earnings call this afternoon, the company said that it would be eliminating 8% of its staff. In 2018, Activision…
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Amazon in Its Prime: Doubles Profits, Pays $0 in Federal Income Taxes
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ITEP
Amazon in Its Prime: Doubles Profits, Pays $0 in Federal Income Taxes
Amazon, the ubiquitous purveyor of two-day delivery of just about everything, nearly doubled its profits to $11.2 billion in 2018 from $5.6 billion the previous year and, once again, didn’t pay a single cent of federal income taxes.
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Toyotas and Chevys Are Holding Up Better Than Most Luxury Brands
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Lessons from Google's Geographical GDPR Goof
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Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
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Quora
How does reCAPTCHA stop bots from clicking the checkbox?
Answer (1 of 62): So, in the middle of expert’s answer, I am going to attempt answering this question.
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The bots are way quicker than humans. These CAPTCHAs are mainly used to prevent DDOS attacks and spams. Say if a bot tries to create thousands…
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Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
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NY Times
NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission (Published 2019)
Silent since a giant dust storm last summer, the rover was the longest-lasting robot on another planet ever.
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The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised
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Felix Reda
The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has just been finalised
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Lawyer in Charge of Apple’s Insider-Trading Policy Accused of Insider Trading
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Show HN: I implemented Pong as a cellular automaton
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Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?
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The New Republic
Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?
The festival's marketing agency also co-produced the film, resulting in a misleading version of who bears responsibility for the fraud.
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Google will spend $13B on U.S. real estate in 2019
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CNBC
Google will spend $13 billion on U.S. real estate in 2019, expanding into Nevada, Ohio, Texas and Nebraska
Google will expand into Nevada, Ohio, Texas and Nebraska for the first time, adding new data centers in those states and offices elsewhere.
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The Caviar Con
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Longreads
The Caviar Con - Longreads
When caviar-crazed Eastern Europeans flocked to Warsaw, Missouri to poach eggs from a vulnerable species of fish, federal agents went undercover and spent two years to build a case against them.
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Tell HN: Node.js koa-router package transferred to unknown user
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GitHub
Suggestion: Provide standards around integrity between source code and published package · Issue #77 · nodejs/package-maintenance
Right now, it seems that most maintainers may publish their packages from their local environment. There should be a way to verify what is published against the public source code or specific git s...
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FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' over robocalls
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TheHill
FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' over robocalls
Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), warned phone service providers that if they don't crack down on fraudulent caller IDs from robocallers his agency will step in with regulation.
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