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Identity Is Dead
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Constellation Research Inc.
Identity is dead
First published April 2018. For at least five years there has been a distinct push within the identity management industry towards attributes: a steady shift from who someone is to what they are. It
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Boeing Knew the AOA Disagree Alert on the 737 Max Didn’t Work
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Avionics International
Boeing Knew the AOA Disagree Alert on the 737 MAX Didn't Work — and Said Nothing - Avionics International
In 2017, Boeing learned that the AOA disagree alert — a standard feature on all 737 MAX aircraft — didn't work on the majority of the planes.
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A Brutal Inheritance
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BuzzFeed News
His DNA Solved A Century-Old Jailhouse Rape. The Victim: His Grandmother.
Commercial DNA tests showed that Hiram and Bruce were related. But their link proved to be much deeper — and darker — than either could have imagined.
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The Day When Computers Can Break All Encryption Is Coming
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WSJ
The Day When Computers Can Break All Encryption Is Coming
Quantum computers will be able to overpower current encryption within a decade. That has security experts scrambling to come up with new ways to protect our data before it is too late.
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‘I believed I didn't have the right kind of brain for science’
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the Guardian
Nell Freudenberger: ‘Like many women I believed I didn't have the right kind of brain for science’
While writing her latest novel, the American author became obsessed with theoretical physics. She talks about sexism in science, falling in love with teachers and grief
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Dan Ingalls PARC Talk on Sanskrit and OCR (1980) [video]
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Vimeo
Sanskrit and OCR
A talk given by Dan Ingalls and his father at Xerox PARC in 1980. It describes a project to determine authorship of various sections of the great Indian epic, the…
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Malloc Never Fails (2012)
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scvalex.net
Malloc Never Fails
Here’s a fun bit of trivia: malloc on Linux never fails [due to the obvious cause]. In this post, we’ll show that this indeed is the case, and explore why…
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Eye Contact in Video Conferencing (2018)
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Itotd
Eye-to-Eye Video | Interesting Thing of the Day
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Screenshots from developers and Unix people (2002)
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anders.unix.se
Screenshots from developers & Unix people (2002)
What did people's desktops look like?
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VLC 3.0.7 and security
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Buying into the Emacs Platform (2018)
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Two-Wrongs
Why You Should Buy Into the Emacs Platform
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Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications
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reddit
Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push...
FOSS messaging apps such as [Telegram-FOSS](https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS), [riot.im](https://riot.im/), and other free...
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Rescued from the Heart of Darkness – Friday, April 13th, 1945
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Flashbak
The True Story of The Holocaust Train Rescued From The Heart of Darkness - Friday, April 13th, 1945 - Flashbak
Near the end of the war in 1945, Jewish prisoners from the Bergen-Belsen death camp were being transported by rail to another camp when their German guards abandoned the train. The US Army happened upon the survivors. Two soldiers took photographs. And from…
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Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
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TechCrunch
Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal
On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its
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Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall
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The Next Web
Mozilla will launch a paid version of Firefox this fall (Updated)
Firefox premium will launch by October that'll have features like VPN (Virtual Private Network) and secure cloud storage.
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During World War II, Steinway Produced Special Pianos for American Troops
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Steinway
Steinway & Sons Victory Verticals
During World War II, STEINWAY AND SONS produced specially-built pianos for the American troops. Called the Victory Vertical or G.I. Steinways, the pianos were sometimes airdropped onto battlefields to provide a bit of relaxation...
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Only 13% of UK adults trust big tech firms with handling anonymized NHS data
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Techerati
Only 13% of UK adults trust big tech firms with handling anonymized NHS data - Techerati
Most citizens would prefer UK-based and regulated universities and companies to handle and process unidentifiable patient data.
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The battle in Israel to create an unhackable phone
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The battle in Israel to create an unhackable phone
Politicians and intelligence agencies are using the IntactPhone
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Why Dark Gray Is Brighter Than Gray in CSS
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Medium
Why Dark Gray is Brighter than Gray In CSS
You’ve might not have noticed this as it’s a very subtle bit of trivia but in your browser there are pre-defined colors which aren’t what…
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If music gives you goosebumps, your brain might be special (2017)
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Indy100
If music gives you goosebumps, your brain might be special
Do you ever get that feeling when listening to a great song that makes all the hairs on your arm stand on end?
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G20 agrees to push ahead with digital tax
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Reuters
G20 agrees to push ahead with digital tax: communique
FUKUOKA, Japan (Reuters) - Group of 20 finance ministers agreed on Saturday to compile common rules to close loopholes used by global tech giants such as Facebook to reduce their corporate taxes, a copy of the bloc’s draft communique obtained by Reuters showed.
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