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What Is a 'Nautical Mile'?
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HowStuffWorks
What is a nautical mile, and how does it differ from a normal mile and a kilometer?
A nautical mile is used for navigation at sea. It is a unit of measurement that is based on the circumference of the Earth. How does it relate to a standard mile and a kilometer? Find out in this article.
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New Hampshire installs first historical marker to honor computer programming
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The Verge
New Hampshire installs first historical marker to honor computer programming
Honoring the creation of BASIC
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The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows
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Docker
Docker: Accelerated Container Application Development
Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.
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Study finds that a GPS outage would cost $1B per day
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Ars Technica
Study finds that a GPS outage would cost $1 billion per day
90 percent of the technology's financial impact has come since just 2010.
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SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Google won't lift a finger
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ZDNET
SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Google won't lift a finger
First they hijacked my T-Mobile service, then they stole my Google and Twitter accounts and charged my bank with a $25,000 Bitcoin purchase. I'm stuck in my own personal Black Mirror episode. Why will no one help me?
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Good Quality DOSBox Video Capture and FFmpeg Options
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Mathematician Disproves Hedetniemi’s Graph Theory Conjecture
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Quanta Magazine
A 53-Year-Old Network Coloring Conjecture Is Disproved
In just three pages, a Russian mathematician has presented a better way to color certain types of networks than many experts thought possible.
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Towards Multiverse Databases
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What Went Down at WWDC 2019
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Medium
What Went Down at WWDC 2019
This year’s WWDC conference in a nutshell.
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I don’t need The Onion, I have China Daily
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Facebook's Answer to Bitcoin Poses a Double Threat
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A student loan crisis is an underemployment catastrophe
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Medium
The student loan crisis is really an underemployment catastrophe
The Python code and cleaned, aggregated data used to produce this article can be downloaded at GitHub
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Genius discovered Google was scraping their lyrics
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WSJ
Lyrics Site Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content
Genius Media Group says Google is lifting and republishing on its own platform the hip-hop and pop music lyrics found on Genius.com, resulting in a drop in traffic for the site.
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VisiCalc's Spreadsheets Changed the World
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The New Stack
How VisiCalc’s Spreadsheets Changed the World
It's the 40th anniversary of VisiCalc, the first popular spreadsheet program, and the anniversary has prompted some new remembrances of the killer app that, true to its "power to the people" origins, got people playing with data – and, by popularizing personal…
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Tim Cook: Technology companies need to take responsibility for chaos they create
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CNBC
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Technology companies need to take responsibility for chaos they create
Although Cook did not mention companies by name, his commencement speech in Silicon Valley's backyard mentioned data breaches, privacy violations, and even made reference to Theranos, a disgraced startup.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Where Is It?
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The Atlantic
What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane
Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.
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When Everything That Counts Can’t Be Counted
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The Reformed Broker
When Everything That Counts Can’t Be Counted
In the battle for capital right now, the brands and intangibles are user bases and networks are winning by a landslide
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Genius hid a Morse code message in song lyrics to prove Google was copying them
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BGR
Genius hid a Morse code message in song lyrics to prove Google was copying them
Did you ever notice how you tend to Google the lyrics of a song and then you don’t bother clicking through to Genius’s website because Google displays them right on the search results page? W…
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Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says
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BBC News
Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says
The technology company tweeted its QLED-branded sets should be scanned once every few weeks.
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C++11 lock-free command buffers for multi-thread rendering
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Stalin's Rope Roads (2013)
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The Atlantic
Stalin's Rope Roads
The mining town of Chiatura, Georgia, surrounded by steep cliffs, is criss-crossed by a network of aging Soviet-era aerial tramways that are still in use today.
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