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Android developers can now force app updates
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TechCrunch
Android developers can now force app updates
Half a year ago, at the Android Dev Summit, Google announced a new way for developers to force their users to update their apps when they launch new features or important bug fixes. It’s only now, at Google I/O, though, that the company is actually making…
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U.S. cancels $929M in California high speed rail funds after appeal rejected
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Reuters
U.S. cancels $929 million in California high speed rail funds after appeal rejected
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Thursday it was formally cancelling $929 million in previously awarded funding for California’s high-speed rail program after rejecting an appeal by the state.
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Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal
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CNBC
Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to recruiters who worked there
Former Facebook recruiters told CNBC that the tech company has experienced a significant decrease in its job offer acceptance rates.
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$500k a Year yet Struggling? Let's Do a Double Take
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California bill to add more housing in single-family neighborhoods blocked
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Los Angeles Times
California bill to add housing in single-family home neighborhoods blocked by lawmakers
A high-profile bill that would have increased home building near mass transit and in single-family home neighborhoods across California has been killed for the year, ending a major battle over how to address the state’s housing affordability crisis that has…
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Sleepless in Silicon Valley
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The Economist
Sleepless in Silicon Valley
Why the techie obsession with sleep technology makes perfect sense
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WhatsApp Will Never Be Secure
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Telegraph – Pavel Durov
Why WhatsApp Will Never Be Secure
The world seems to be shocked by the news that WhatsApp turned any phone into spyware. Everything on your phone – including photos, emails and texts – could be accessed by attackers just because you had WhatsApp installed [1]. This news didn’t surprise…
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SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
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NY Times
SAT’s New ‘Adversity Score’ Will Take Students’ Hardships Into Account
The College Board is adding a measure of students’ socioeconomic background to help colleges put test scores in context.
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Xi Jinping's colleagues rejected an 'unequal' trade deal
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Nikkei Asia
How Xi Jinping's colleagues rejected an 'unequal' trade deal
A 150-page agreement was sent back to Washington, gutted and shrunk to 105 pages
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V8 release 7.5
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I.M. Pei, World-Renowned Architect, Is Dead at 102
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NY Times
I.M. Pei, Master Architect Whose Buildings Dazzled the World, Dies at 102 (Published 2019)
Mr. Pei, a committed modernist, was one of the few architects equally attractive to real estate developers, corporate chieftains and art museum boards.
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Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (2012)
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Hermes – A message broker built on top of Kafka
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blog.allegro.tech
Hermes 1.0 released
After 5 years of developing and maintaining Hermes, we are very excited to announce that version 1.0 has been released.
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Course: Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare
Linear algebra concepts are key for understanding and creating machine learning algorithms, especially as applied to deep learning and neural networks. This course reviews linear algebra with applications to probability and statistics and optimization–and…
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ENIAC Operating Manual (1946) [pdf]
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Internet Archive
univOfPennsylvania :: eniac :: ENIAC Operating Manual Jun46 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document.univOfPennsylvania :: eniac :: ENIAC Operating Manual Jun46
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Turo and Getaround Get Heat From the Rental Car Industry
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CityLab
The ‘Airbnb of Cars’ Gets Heat From the Rental Car Industry
Peer-to-peer sharing services that let owners rent out their vehicles are a focus of concern from traditional car rental companies, who see disruption ahead.
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Coca Cola is the most common source of packaging pollution
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the Guardian
Coca-Cola most common source of packaging pollution on UK beaches – study
Soft-drink brand’s products make up nearly 12% of litter found, says Surfers Against Sewage
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Can we all stop using Medium now?
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RealTalk Speech Synthesis
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Medium
RealTalk: This Speech Synthesis Model Our Engineers Built Recreates a Human Voice Perfectly
…and it’s the voice of Joe Rogan. As the real Rogan said himself, “the future’s going to be f*cking weird, kids.”
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Security Update
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Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools
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Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Faster smarter JavaScript debugging in Firefox DevTools
Script debugging is one of the most powerful and complex productivity features in the web developer toolbox. Done right, it empowers developers to fix bugs quickly and efficiently. The DevTools ...
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