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Building hybrid blockchain/cloud applications
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Google Cloud Blog
Building hybrid blockchain/cloud applications with Ethereum and Google Cloud | Google Cloud Blog
This post describes applications for making internet-hosted data available inside an immutable public blockchain by placing BigQuery data available on-chain using a Chainlink oracle smart contract.
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Newspapers don’t need a special law to help compete with Google and Facebook
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POLITICO
Newspapers’ Embarrassing Lobbying Campaign
The industry doesn’t need—and shouldn’t ask for—a special law to help it compete with Google and Facebook.
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We Could Have Had Electric Cars from the Beginning
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Longreads
We Could Have Had Electric Cars from the Very Beginning - Longreads
Early electric cars performed better in cities than internal combustion vehicles, but didn’t give riders the same illusion of freedom and masculine derring-do.
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Teaching a cheap Ethernet switch new tricks
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Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers
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WSJ
Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency, Libra, Gets Big Backers
Facebook has signed up more than a dozen companies including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber to back the cryptocurrency it plans to unveil next week.
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The New Dropbox Sucks
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Daring Fireball
The New Dropbox Sucks
Link to: https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product-tips/new-dropbox
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How Nike sold its first shoes
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Marketing Examples — Good marketing examples
How Jeff Johnson sold Nike's first shoes
The story of how Phil Knight and Jeff Johnson drove to track meets all over the Pacific Northwest and sold more shoes than you can imagine out of the boots of their car.
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Military cut off the Internet in Sudan as they kill and rape protestors
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iAfrikan
Internet cut off in Sudan
Sudan's military cut off the Internet amid pro-democracy protests.
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NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model
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www.noaa.gov
NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Improved model will boost weather forecasts across the U.S.
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Learning Chess at 40 (2016)
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Nautilus
Learning Chess at 40
My 4-year-old daughter and I were deep into a game of checkers one day about three years ago when her eye drifted to a nearby table.…
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Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required
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Google
Create 3D games with friends, no experience required
Game Builder is an experimental game-building sandbox available now for free on Steam for PC and Mac.
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Notes on privacy and data collection of
Matrix.org
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Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org
Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org - notes.md
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LaTeX Workflow on iPad
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Imaginary Mass
LaTeX Workflow on iPad
Introduction I was a proud owner of the 15″ MacBook Pro Retina from 2013. After years of service, it became a bit unsatisfying in terms of performance. In 2017 I finally decided to build a de…
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Court: Photographer has no recourse against university copyright infringement
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HoustonChronicle.com
Texas court says photographer has no recourse against university copyright infringement
The University of Houston got a big win this week when a state appeals court agreed to reverse a lower court ruling that would have allowed a Houston photographer to sue the university for using an aerial photograph the university used to promote its business…
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Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay hit with penalty for not allowing public beach access
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The Mercury News
Environment | Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay hit with $1.6 million penalty for failing to provide public beach access
One of Northern California’s most exclusive hotels, the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, has violated public beach access rules for years, the Coastal Commission says.
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Show HN: GitHub Repository Card for Every Web Site
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GitHub
GitHub - nwtgck/gh-card: :octocat: GitHub Repository Card for Any Web Site
:octocat: GitHub Repository Card for Any Web Site. Contribute to nwtgck/gh-card development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers
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WSJ
Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency, Libra, Gets Big Backers
Facebook has signed up more than a dozen companies including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber to back the cryptocurrency it plans to unveil next week.
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Sleep trackers can make insomnia worse
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NY Times
That Sleep Tracker Could Make Your Insomnia Worse (Published 2019)
Apps and trackers can flood users with confusing data, doctors say. Some warn against orthosomnia, an obsession with “perfect” sleep.
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Many-valued logic
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Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor
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Evertpot
Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor
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Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions
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Chromium Blog
Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions in Manifest V3
The Story So Far As part of an effort to increase user security and privacy, Chrome is planning a number of changes to the extensions pla...
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