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Why Was Mini USB Deprecated in Favor of Micro USB?
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Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange
Why was Mini USB deprecated in favor of Micro USB?
Mini USB connectors were standardized as part of USB 2.0 in 2000. In 2007, the USB Implemeters Forum standardized Micro USB connectors, deprecating Mini USB connectors four months later.
Why? What...
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The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones
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The Atlantic
The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones
Did technology disrupt the drug game, too?
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Too Many Medicines Simply Don’t Work
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Bitcoin's Rally Masks Uncomfortable Fact: Almost Nobody Uses It
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Instagram influencer with 2M followers fails to sell 36 t-shirts
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"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
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Nicolas Beauvais
How @DigitalOcean just killed our company @raisupcom. A long thread for a very sad story.
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Scaling to 1M active GraphQL subnoscriptions on Postgres
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GitHub
graphql-engine/architecture/live-queries.md at master · hasura/graphql-engine
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. - hasura/graphql-engine
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UN expert says "collective persecution" of Julian Assange must end
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NY Schools Will Test Facial Recognition on Students over Objections of State
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BuzzFeed News
A New York School District Will Test Facial Recognition On Students Even Though The State Asked It To Wait
The western New York school district says it is "confident" in its data collection policies.
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New Social Media Question on DS-160 and DS-260 Visa Applications
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ImmigrationGirl
New Social Media Question on DS-160 and DS-260 Visa Applications | ImmigrationGirl
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Human-level performance in 3D multiplayer games with population-based RL
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Science
Human-level performance in 3D multiplayer games with population-based reinforcement learning
Artificially intelligent agents are getting better and better at two-player games, but most real-world endeavors require teamwork. Jaderberg et al. designed a computer program that excels at playing the video game Quake III Arena in Capture the Flag mode…
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Apple Plans End of iTunes
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Bloomberg
Apple Plans End of iTunes, to Reveal Glimpses of Its Next Era of Apps and Devices
At WWDC, Apple will make the Watch and iPad more independent, while unifying its app strategy as it looks beyond the iPhone.
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Space firm founded by billionaire Paul Allen closing operations
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Reuters
Exclusive: Space firm founded by billionaire Paul Allen closing operations - sources
SEATTLE/ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, the space company founded by late billionaire and Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen, is closing operations, cutting short ambitious plans to challenge traditional aerospace companies in…
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Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network Using Only NumPy
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Victorzhou
CNNs, Part 2: Training a Convolutional Neural Network - victorzhou.com
A simple walkthrough of deriving backpropagation for CNNs and implementing it from scratch in Python.
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The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space
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Russia Beyond
The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space
Sergei Krikalev was in space when the Soviet Union collapsed. Unable to come home, he wound up spending two times longer than originally planned in...
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Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google
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WSJ
Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google
The Justice Department is gearing up for an antitrust investigation of Alphabet’s Google, a move that could present a major new layer of regulatory scrutiny for the search giant.
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Amethyst: Data-driven game engine written in Rust
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Obsidian: A safer blockchain programming language
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A class-action suit imperils California freelancers
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Columbia Journalism Review
‘This could ruin us’: A class-action suit imperils California freelancers
Carrie Bell likes being her own boss. A full-time freelancer for nearly 18 years, she covers entertainment and travel for outlets like Yahoo and PopSugar. Despite the rollercoaster highs and lows of working independently, freelancing agrees with her. “I worked…
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A 600-Page Textbook About Modern Monetary Theory Has Sold Out
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No paper, no PhD? India rethinks graduate student policy
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Nature
No paper, no PhD? India rethinks graduate student policy
A committee has recommended scrapping a rule that requires PhD students to publish articles.
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