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Hannibal’s route across the Alps (2016)
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the Guardian
The truth about Hannibal’s route across the Alps
How exactly did the Carthaginian general and his elephants reach Italy? Scientists have got their hands dirty to come up with an answer
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2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden
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Big medical data breach today in Sweden. https://t.co/JOjdBfB8T9
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Nonnegative matrix factorization
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First impressions of Filecoin
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ClickedyClick
First impressions of Filecoin - ClickedyClick
Adventures into using this distributed blockchain based storage network, a few days into the development network release.
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2.7M phone calls to Swedish medical advice service laid open for anyone
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Computer Sweden
2,7 miljoner inspelade samtal till 1177 Vårdguiden helt oskyddade på internet
Computer Sweden avslöjar: alla telefonsamtal som ringts till 1177 sedan 2013 och som tagits emot av vårdentreprenören Medicall har legat helt öppet som ljudfiler på en oskyddad webbserver.
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Japanese government will access home devices in security survey
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Ken Nordine, Chicago creator of ‘word jazz’, dies at 98
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When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived
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Atlas Obscura
When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived
Some still reign today.
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I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry
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Habr
I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry
Once upon a time there was a guy on my team so weak that he was going to be fired (a developer! Fired!). Every comment of mine was another nail in his coffin. I could almost hear the bang of the...
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Programming Interview Questions Are Too Hard and Too Short
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Triplebyte
Programming interview questions are too hard and too short
tl;dr Programming interview questions can feel unnecessarily difficult. Sometimes they actually are. And this isn't just because they make interviews excessively stressful. Our data shows that harder programming questions actually do a worse job of predicting…
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How Badly Is Google Books Search Broken, and Why?
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Blogspot
How badly is Google Books search broken, and why?
I periodically write about Google Books here, so I thought I'd point out something that I've noticed recently that should be concerning to a...
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Kodak's Discovery of A-Bomb Testing (2016)
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Popular Mechanics
When Kodak Accidentally Discovered A-Bomb Testing
Two thousand miles away from the U.S. A-bomb tests in 1945, something weird was happening to Kodak's film.
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Major Games Publishers Are Feeling the Impact of Peaking Attention
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MIDiA Research
Major Games Publishers Are Feeling The Impact Of Peaking Attention | MIDiA Research
Disappointing earnings results of games publishers are caused by something much bigger than Fortnite - the peaking attention economy.
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Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018) [pdf]
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Huawei Targets Apple Trade Secrets
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Macrumors
Huawei's Efforts to Steal Apple Trade Secrets Include Employee Bonus Program and Other Dubious Tactics
Last month, the United States Justice Department announced a series of criminal charges against Chinese smartphone maker Huawei for stealing trade...
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SOCKMAP – TCP splicing of the future
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The Cloudflare Blog
SOCKMAP - TCP splicing of the future
Proper TCP socket splicing reduces the load on userspace processes and enables more efficient data forwarding. We realized that Linux Kernel's SOCKMAP infrastructure can be reused for this purpose.
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National Sword
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99% Invisible
National Sword
Where does your recycling go? In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be sorted and cleaned at a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). From there, much of it is shipped off to mills, where bales of paper, glass, aluminum…
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What It's Like to Be a Black Mathematician
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For a Black Mathematician, What It’s Like to Be the ‘Only One’
Fewer than 1 percent of doctorates in math are awarded to African-Americans. Edray Goins, who earned one of them, found the upper reaches of the math world a challenging place.
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Underactuated Robotics
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How to generate random geo-coordinates within a given radius
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Insectageddon is a great story. But what are the facts?
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Ecology is not a dirty word
Insectageddon is a great story. But what are the facts?
Hype is an ineffective communication strategy, especially when based on limited facts. There are many elements to effective communication – simply raising awareness about a problem is not enough if…
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