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Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Has Died
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NY Times
Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Dies at 93 (Published 2019)
In a breakthrough in the 1960s, he showed that computers could be used interactively with quick results, and also made secure from others’ using them.
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Steam Labs
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Steampowered
Steam Labs
A peek at some of the many experiments we put together around discoverability, video, machine learning, and more.
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Why this man became a hermit at 20
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Bbc
Why this man became a hermit at 20
Many people really don't like being alone. They feel lonely. For others, however, solitude can be a source of ecstasy.
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Are smartphones the new 'opium of the people'?
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The internet as religious experience
Religion is in the ascendant across the world, but it has a new, powerful rival - the internet.
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Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or loss of signal
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Inside GNSS
Galileo Interruptus? Official Notice on 11 July Advises Users that Galileo Service is Degraded on All Satellites Until Further…
Our source inside the European GNSS Agency (GSA), which is the EU agency responsible for Galileo services, has told us: "They are working on it. Teams from indu
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Programming and Programming Languages (2018)
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MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member
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AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking
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New Scientist
AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking
A sheet of glass can distinguish between drawings of 0 to 9, because light waves reflected off the images are bent differently as they pass through the glass
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Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
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Los Angeles Times
Column: In act of brinkmanship, a big publisher cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
The bitter battle between the University of California, a leading source of published research papers, and Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of research papers, just got more bitter.
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Ask HN: I'm trying to represent an entire building as a graph
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Picture of two quantum entangled photons
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Science Advances
Imaging Bell-type nonlocal behavior
We report the violation of a Bell inequality within full-field coincidence images of a phase object probed by entangled photons.
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Google Photos is making your photos semi-public and you probably don’t realise
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Medium
Google Photo is making your photos semi-public and you probably don’t realise
I’ve noticed something about Google Photos that is weird enough that nobody initially believes it.
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Eve Online’s communications blackout, explained
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Polygon
Eve Online is changing how chat works, and that changes the game
Eve’s ‘blackout’ is a bigger deal than you think
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React Native 0.60
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facebook.github.io
Blog · React Native
A framework for building native apps using React
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Twelve Ways to Fool the Masses (1991)
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Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC
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Ars Technica
Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC
CDC wants more data and faster reporting before the next wave of cases hits.
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First Moon landing was nearly a US–Soviet mission
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Nature
First Moon landing was nearly a US–Soviet mission
As today’s tensions mount, it is salutary to recall that cooperation was on the table during the cold war, writes Roger D. Launius.
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Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State
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Why the C++ standard ships every three years
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Sutter’s Mill
Draft FAQ: Why does the C++ standard ship every three years?
WG21 has a strict schedule (see P1000) by which we ship the standard every three years. We don’t delay it. Around this time of each cycle, we regularly get questions about “but why so strict?”, esp…
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Value Is Dead, Long Live Value
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Qualified Small-Business Stock rule helps Silicon Valley workers save millions
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NY Times
How a Tax Loophole Is Helping Silicon Valley Workers Save Millions
A little-known tax break allows some start-up employees who own company stock to avoid paying taxes on up to $10 million when they sell their shares.
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