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Claude Shannon: The Bit Player
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Tech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large.”
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Vox
Tech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large,” Anand Giridharadas says
Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Gates shouldn’t have an outsize say in how we run our country, Giridharadas says on the latest episode of Recode Decode.
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Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
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Playdate. Order now!
It’s yellow. It fits in your pocket. There’s a crank. It comes with 24 free games to get you started. Say hi to Playdate from Panic.
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Raytheon discloses future lasers that can stop hypersonic missiles
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Defence Blog
Raytheon discloses future lasers that can stop hypersonic missiles
Video posted on U.S. Defense contractor Raytheon’s Twitter account, appear to show future laser weapon systems that that can stop enemy hypersonic missiles. Hypersonic weapons are highly mane…
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PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python's standard library
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Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from the standard library | peps.python.org
This PEP proposed a list of standard library modules to be removed from the standard library. The modules are mostly historic data formats (e.g. Commodore and SUN file formats), APIs and operating systems that have been superseded a long time ago (e.g. ...
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“The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture
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The New Yorker
How “The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture
The series, which ended its twelve-season run on Thursday, brought tech concepts to an older generation as the field grew from a curiosity to a vexation to an inescapable substrate of American life.
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Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
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Reuters
Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban as concern grows in U.S. Congress
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said shareholders rejected proposals to curb and audit its facial recognition service on Wednesday, just as members of Congress indicated there was bipartisan support to one day regulate the technology.
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SerenityOS – a graphical (with 90s aesthetics) Unix-like OS for x86
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GitHub
GitHub - SerenityOS/serenity: The Serenity Operating System
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. Contribute to SerenityOS/serenity development by creating an account on GitHub.
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E Programming Language
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Announcing Terraform 0.12
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New York Has a Supervillain Pulling Emergency Brakes, Destroying Subway Commute
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Jalopnik
New York Has a Supervillain Pulling Emergency Brakes and Destroying Subway Commutes
“This is a nutcase who is addicted to fucking with the trains.”
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Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
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thecompost.io
The Compost | 05.20.2019 #ExxonKnew
The Compost is a newsletter breaking down the week’s stories on environmental issues. Find out what’s going on, why you should care, and how you can help.
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Mars Colony Power Simulator
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China, Leverage, and Values
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Stratechery
China, Leverage, and Values
If there is a new tech cold war, it is one with shots fired over a decade ago, largely by China. The questions going forward are about both leverage and values.
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Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool
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GitHub
So long and thanks for all the fish. · Issue #170 · dstat-real/dstat
Since Red Hat decided to replace this utility with a complete framework and its own utility with the same name. And since I have zero interest to fight a multi-billion company who likes replacing c...
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Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Layer: Eastern China
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NY Times
Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Layer: Eastern China (Published 2019)
An international team of researchers said Wednesday that two provinces in China were the source of most of the emissions of a banned gas that harms the ozone layer.
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WestJet pilot's eyes burned by laser on flight from Newfoundland to Florida
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CBC
WestJet pilot's eyes burned by laser on flight from Newfoundland to Florida | CBC News
A WestJet pilot flying from Newfoundland to Orlando International Airport had his eyes burned by a green laser light, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration officials says.
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I was wrong about the iPad Pro
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Charged
I was wrong about the iPad Pro
I already tried the iPad Pro and hated it—but I have a confession: I got another one, and it made my workflow better.
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H-1B visa: Government says work ban for H-4 spouses coming this month
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The Mercury News
H-1B visa: Government says work ban for H-4 spouses coming this month
The Trump Administration is moving ahead with a plan to strip the right to work from tens of thousands of foreign citizens.
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Computing's first 'killer app' changed everything
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BBC News
How computing's first 'killer app' changed everything
Technology reshapes the workplace in much subtler ways than simply robots stealing jobs.
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Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration
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