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Sarah Stewart Revealed the Missing Link Between Viruses and Cancer
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Woman Who Revealed the Missing Link Between Viruses and Cancer
Today, vaccinating against cervical cancer is routine. But before Sarah Stewart, scientists dismissed the idea of a cancer-preventing vaccine as ludicrous
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600 ($199) Beats Intel's Core i7-9700K ($374) in Cinebench
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TechQuila
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 ($199) Beats Intel's Core i7-9700K ($374) in Cinebench
These results once again highlight why AMD is chipping away at Intel's market share both in the consumer as well as the server market.
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Migrating 300k LOC from Flow to TypeScript
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Medium
Now or Never: Migrating 300k LOC from Flow to TypeScript at Quizlet
At Quizlet, we are constantly working on improving our developer experience. After two mostly happy years with Flow, we recently decided…
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One Day of Work a Week Is Most ‘Effective’ Dose for Mental Health
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Texas Is Latest State to Attack Surprise Medical Bills
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Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study says
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the Guardian
Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study says
Britons between 18 and 29 have less left over after housing costs than older generations had at same age
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More Bad Buzz for Bees: Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter
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Sony launches a taxi-hailing app to rival Uber in Tokyo
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TechCrunch
Sony launches a taxi-hailing app to rival Uber in Tokyo
Sony last year announced it would enter Japan’s taxi-hailing space and, good to its word, the electronics giant has kicked off its S.Ride service in Tokyo.
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Download WireGuard for Windows pre-alpha for testing
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Himalayan glacier melting doubled since 2000, spy satellites show
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the Guardian
Himalayan glacier melting doubled since 2000, spy satellites show
Ice losses indicate ‘devastating’ future for region and 1 billion people who depend on it for water
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Show HN: A star map creation tool with Common Lisp
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Thestarmaps
Custom star map creation tool. High-resolution star maps for your art or product
Create custom star maps, with the stars, planets, Sun and Moon as seen from the locations, dates and times of your choice, and your own design. Download them as transparent PNG to add to your own products, or create unique art with them.
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Why Google+ Failed
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Medium
Why Google+ Failed
Google Plus didn’t fail because Facebook is invulnerable. It failed because of deep flaws embedded in it from the very start.
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How I Consume Books
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mubaris.blog
Mubaris NK
Books are one of the important sources of my knowledge. They help me become a better version of myself. Over the years the way I consume the books has changed a lot. A book is a gateway to knowledge. My aim is to acquire that knowledge, and hopefully use…
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XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
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arXiv.org
XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
With the capability of modeling bidirectional contexts, denoising autoencoding based pretraining like BERT achieves better performance than pretraining approaches based on autoregressive language...
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Show HN: An old terminal HTML template
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GitHub
GitHub - victorqribeiro/oldTerminal: an old terminal template for html pages
an old terminal template for html pages. Contribute to victorqribeiro/oldTerminal development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May
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Monzo
We had problems with bank transfers on 30th May. Here's what happened and how we're fixing it for the future.
A technical problem at the company we use to connect to Faster Payments caused issues with bank transfers. To fix it, we’re bringing everything in-house instead.
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Why I don't use web components
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DEV Community
Why I don't use web components
For my first post on dev.to I thought I'd write about a nice, safe topic that's free of controversy:...
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Getting 2FA Right in 2019
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The Trail of Bits Blog
Getting 2FA Right in 2019
Since March, Trail of Bits has been working with the Python Software Foundation to add two-factor authentication (2FA) to Warehouse, the codebase that powers PyPI. As of today, PyPI members can enable time-based OTP (TOTP) and WebAuthn (currently in beta).…
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Support for right-to-repair laws slowly grows
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Ars Technica
Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for Right to Repair laws slowly grows
The right to repair battle trudges on despite a record amount of legislative proposals.
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Basque and Armenian share a baffling litany of words and grammatical elements
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Bbc
The surprising story of the Basque language
Though the Basque and Armenian languages share no superficial resemblances, they do share a baffling litany of words and grammatical elements.
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A Growing Problem in Real Estate: Too Many Too Big Houses
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WSJ
A Growing Problem in Real Estate: Too Many Too Big Houses
Baby boomers and retirees built large, elaborate dream homes across the Sunbelt—only to find that few people want to buy them.
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