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High Dietary Sugar Reshapes Taste to Promote Feeding Behavior in Fruit Flies
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A Nazi Critic and a Gestapo Spy
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A Nazi Critic and a Gestapo Spy - DER SPIEGEL - International
The Gestapo spy Paul Reckzeh denounced a group of Nazi critics in Berlin and two of them were executed. Irmgard Ruppel was the last survivor of the group, and in an interview five decades later, she told the story of what happened.
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How Hackers and Scammers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones
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How Hackers and Scammers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones
In a novel melding of physical and cybercrime, hackers, thieves, and even independent repair companies are finding ways to "unlock iCloud" from iPhones.
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Human Pose Estimation with Deep Learning
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AI & Machine Learning Blog
A 2019 guide to Human Pose Estimation with Deep Learning
Human Pose estimation is an important problem and has enjoyed the attention of the Computer Vision community for the past few decades. It is an important step towards understanding people in images and videos. In this post, I write about the basics of Human…
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Post-mortem and remediations for the
Matrix.org
security breach
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matrix.org
Post-mortem and remediations for Apr 11 security incident
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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The Next Generation (I3en) of I/O-Optimized EC2 Instances
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Amazon
New – The Next Generation (I3en) of I/O-Optimized EC2 Instances | Amazon Web Services
Amazon’s Customer Obsession leadership principle says: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers. Starting from the customer…
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Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story
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Amazon
Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story | Amazon Web Services
Update (September 23, 2020) – Over the last year, we’ve heard feedback from many customers who have asked us to extend the deprecation date. Based on this feedback we have decided to delay the deprecation of path-style URLs to ensure that customers have the…
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Inheritance versus Composition
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lwn.net
Inheritance versus composition
The idea of "inheritance" is something that most students learn about early
on when they are studying object-oriented programming (OOP). But one of
the seminal books about OOP recommends favoring "composition" over
inheritance. Ariel Ortiz came to PyCon…
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New Taxes and Higher Density Aren't Fixing Vancouver's Housing Problem
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CityLab
New Taxes and Higher Density Aren’t Fixing Vancouver’s Housing Problem
To combat the exodus of its working and middle classes, the city needs an aggressive affordable housing strategy—and fast.
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United Nations Expert Arrested in Tunisia for Using an RTL-SDR
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rtl-sdr.com
United Nations Expert Arrested in Tunisia for Using an RTL-SDR
Recently several newspapers [CNA] [France24] [Guardian] [MEM] [HuffPostMG] have reported a story about a United Nations (UN) expert being arrested in Tunisia for having an RTL-SDR dongle. Dr. Moncef Kartas is a member of a UN panel of experts investigating…
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For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection
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IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News
For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs From Garbage Collection
An accelerator unit improves both the performance and efficiency of a system by taking over one simple task
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Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes
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The Atlantic
Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes
Algorithms that take down “terrorist” videos could hamstring efforts to bring human-rights abusers to justice.
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Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video]
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YouTube
Why did old PCs have key locks? An LGR Retrospective
Retro computer cases often had a locking mechanism, complete with a key that came with the machine. But what exactly did these do, where did they come from, and why aren't they so commonplace anymore?
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A 72-year-old French man has crossed the Atlantic in a giant orange barrel
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Popular Mechanics
This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel
Because sometimes adventure beckons.
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Baltimore city government computer network hit by ransomware attack
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Training the Brain to Eat Less Sugar
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Train Your Brain to Eat Less Sugar
A recent study led by Evan Forman, PhD, a psychology professor in Drexel University's College of Arts and Sciences, shows that a computer game can be used to train its players to eat less sugar, as way of reducing their weight and improving their health.
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Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features
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arXiv.org
Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features
Adversarial examples have attracted significant attention in machine learning, but the reasons for their existence and pervasiveness remain unclear. We demonstrate that adversarial examples can be...
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Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily
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GitHub
GitHub - hiroppy/fusuma:
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Fusuma makes slides with Markdown easily.
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Fusuma makes slides with Markdown easily. Contribute to hiroppy/fusuma development by creating an account on GitHub.
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On the Trail of the RoboCall King
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WIRED
On the Trail of the Robocall King
An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions.
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In Australia, Coal Remains King
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It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
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Nytimes
Opinion | It’s Time to Break Up Facebook (Published 2019)
Mark Zuckerberg is a good guy. But the company I helped him build is a threat to our economy and democracy.
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