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America's rural radio stations are vanishing
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the Guardian
America's rural radio stations are vanishing – and taking the country's soul with them
At a time when local newspapers are disappearing, the loss of a radio station leaves a community with another cultural and informational gap
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It Pays to Play Around
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Nautilus
Why It Pays to Play Around
The 19th-century physicist Hermann von Helmholtz compared his progress in solving a problem to that of a mountain climber “compelled…
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Write HTML Like It's 1999
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uglyduck.ca
Write HTML Like It's 1999 · Ugly Duck
Breaking down some easy steps to ensure you are writing clean and semantic
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ASCII fluid dynamics – A tiny fluid simulator that fits in 80x25 terminal
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YouTube
ASCII fluid dynamics -- IOCCC2012 endoh1.c
A tiny fluid simulator that fits in 80x25 terminal.
https://www.ioccc.org/2012/endoh1/
https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2012/endoh1/endoh1.c
BGM: Water Music (Handel)
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New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
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NY Times
New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It (Published 2019)
Digital recruiting is leaving more of a forensic trail in discrimination cases. But a wave of litigation is running up against higher legal hurdles.
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It's time to switch to a four-day working week, say these two Davos experts
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World Economic Forum
It's time to switch to a four day working week, say these two Davos experts
Working less would have a range of benefits for workers and the world should embrace the four-day working week, according to two experts at Davos 2019.
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Why Were Medieval Europeans So Obsessed with Long, Pointy Shoes?
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Atlas Obscura
Why Were Medieval Europeans So Obsessed With Long, Pointy Shoes?
Going to foolish lengths for fashion.
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Grover – A State-of-the-Art Defense Against Neural Fake News
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The Making of a YouTube Radical
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Nytimes
The Making of a YouTube Radical (Published 2019)
Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.
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Teenagers campaigning for Mike Gravel on Twitter
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NY Times
Are These Teenagers Really Running a Presidential Campaign? Yes. (Maybe.) (Published 2019)
The retired senator Mike Gravel gave two young fans his Twitter password and permission to campaign in his name. It might be a stunt — or the future of politics.
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The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature
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WIRED
The Clever Cryptography Behind Apple's 'Find My' Feature
Apple says an elaborate rotating key scheme will soon let you track down your stolen laptop, but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple.
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Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
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MIT News
Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
MIT researchers have developed a “photonic” artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator that computes using light instead of electricity — and consumes relatively little power in the process — to run massive neural networks millions of times more efficiently…
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ColorKitty: Find palettes from pictures
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Adversarial interoperability: reviving an old weapon to slay today's monopolies
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Adversarial Interoperability: Reviving an Elegant Weapon From a More Civilized Age to Slay Today's Monopolies
Today, Apple is one of the largest, most profitable companies on Earth, but in the early 2000s, the company was fighting for its life. Microsoft's Windows operating system was ascendant, and
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Plot to steal cryptocurrency foiled by NPM
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blog.npmjs.org
npm Blog Archive: Plot to steal cryptocurrency foiled by the npm security team
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
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AP NEWS
Spain: Unfinished Gaudí church gets permit after 137 years
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Property owners have a new yardstick by way of Spain for measuring frustration over building permit requests they suspect got lost in a local government bureaucracy. Barcelona City Hall finally has issued a work permit for the unfinished…
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Texas Is Latest State to Pump the Brakes on Red-Light Cameras
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NY Times
Texas Is Latest State to Pump the Brakes on Red-Light Cameras
Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law this month that bans the cameras. It takes effect in September, but police departments have already started dismantling the devices.
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iOS 13 now shows you a map of where apps have been tracking you
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9to5Mac
iOS 13 now shows a map of where apps have been tracking you when requesting permission
Apple continued its intense focus with the announcement of iOS 13 this week with a handful of new location permissions. Here's what you need to go.
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Huawei Accused of Technology Theft
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To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created an Inedible Sandwich
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Atlas Obscura
To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created the World’s Worst Sandwich
It was everywhere at the turn of the 20th century. It was also inedible.
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Google Research Football: A Novel Reinforcement Learning Environment
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research.google
Introducing Google Research Football: A Novel Reinforcement Learning Environment
Posted by Karol Kurach, Research Lead and Olivier Bachem, Research Scientist, Google Research, Zürich The goal of reinforcement learning (RL) is ...
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