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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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PracticeJS – Coding exercises in a mobile friendly web app
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ArsTechnica Reporter Peter Bright Arrested for Soliciting Sex with Children
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The Daily Dot
Tech reporter charged with soliciting child sex online
Prominent tech reporter Peter Bright has been arrested for soliciting sex with children online. He was employed by Ars Technica until recently.
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Comcast broke law 445,000 times in scheme to inflate bills, judge finds
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Ars Technica
Comcast broke law 445,000 times in scheme to inflate bills, judge finds
Comcast deception leads to refunds and $9M fine, a fraction of the amount sought.
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The RadioInstigator: A $150 Signals Intelligence Platform
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rtl-sdr.com
The RadioInstigator: A $150 Signals Intelligence Platform Consisting of a Raspberry Pi, RPiTX, 2.4 GHz Crazyradio and an RTL-SDR
Circle City Con is a yearly conference that focuses on information security talks. At this years conference Josh Conway presented an interesting talk noscriptd "SigInt for the Masses Building and Using a Signals Intelligence Platform for Less than $150". Josh's…
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Tesla will soon downgrade software on the entry-level Model 3
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Engadget
Tesla will soon downgrade software on the entry-level Model 3
Tesla is removing Standard Model 3 owners' access to the Standard Plus features they didn't pay for in the next few days.
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What is a coder's worst nightmare?
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Quora
What is a coder's worst nightmare?
Answer (1 of 1345): You have an issue that's hard to reproduce but you finally find the trigger, then determine the root cause and put in a fix for it and the fix works! You're a genius!
You commit the fix. QA tests it out and they're happy. You've squashed…
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The Open Source Seed Initiative
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Open Source Seed Initiative
Open Source Seed Initiative - Home of the OSSI Pledge
Are you a plant breeder, seed company, farmer, gardener, or interested eater who wants to join the Open Source Seed Community?
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Former Unity Technology VP files lawsuit alleging CEO sexually harassed her
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TechCrunch
Former Unity Technology VP files lawsuit alleging CEO sexually harassed her
Unity Technologies, the multibillion-dollar gaming engine, is facing a lawsuit from its former VP of global talent acquisition, Anne Evans, who accuses CEO John Riccitiello of sexual harassment. The sexual harassment allegedly took many forms — ranging from…
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Advertising may make people miserable, but it still has its uses
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The Economist
Advertising may make people miserable, but it still has its uses
Workers keen to buy more luxury goods keep toiling away
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Skiptracing: Reversing
Spotify.app
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Medium
Skiptracing: Reversing Spotify.app
I have one of those personal projects that I just can’t finish. I think most software developers can relate to this. You have some awesome…
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I “found” the database of a college app
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Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes
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ZDNET
Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes, despite shared codebase
Other browser makers don't seem to be on board with Google's decision to neuter its extensions API, and essentially, ad blockers.
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Researchers propose solar methanol island using ocean CO₂
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Ars Technica
Creative thinking: Researchers propose solar methanol island using ocean CO₂
Desalination, electrolysis, CO2 capture, methanol synthesis: all running on solar panels.
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‘No to China extradition’ – Hong Kong protest against controversial new law
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Over a million attend Hong Kong demo against controversial extradition law, organisers say
Over a million people have joined a mass protest against the Hong Kong government’s controversial extradition bill, according to organisers. Photo: Tom Grundy/HKFP. Jimmy Sham, a spokesperson for o…
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I made a SFW porn viewer from Reddit subs
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Genetically Engineered Wheat Found in Unplanted Washington Field
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