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New face of the Bank of England's £50 note is revealed
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New face of the Bank of England's £50 note is revealed as Alan Turing
The note - once called the currency of corrupt elites - gets a makeover with the image of a computer pioneer.
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Explaining a Novel to Pakistani Intelligence
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Columbia Journalism Review
Explaining a Novel to Pakistani Intelligence
Fear is a line in your head,” my dear friend Sabeen Mahmud used to say. “You have to decide which side you want to be on.” Mahmud paid the maximum price for her fearlessness. In 2015, she organized a public discussion in Karachi about the disappearances of…
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Alan Cooper on the “10x” Programmer
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Alan Cooper
I’ve worked with more than one “10x” programmer. Their brilliance is astonishing, but their output is rarely practically realized. 1
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Java's Original Sin (2009)
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Original Sin
I’ve often said that Java’s original sin was not being a pure object oriented language - a language where everything is an object. As one e...
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German schools ban Microsoft Office 365 amid privacy concerns
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The Next Web
German schools ban Microsoft Office 365 amid privacy concerns (Updated)
The German state of Hesse has ruled it's illegal for its schools to use Microsoft's Windows 10 and Office 365 citing "privacy concerns."
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What if you couldn’t program with loops?
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Mike Alche
A Refactoring Excercise: What if you couldn't program with loops? - Mike Alche
Have you ever tried restricting yourself from using certain tools when doing something creative? For example, when I was studying musical composition my teacher once tasked me to compose a song with only 4...
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To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
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EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage
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EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage
EU's Galileo global navigation satellite system nears 100 hours of downtime.
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Crispr is less like molecular scissors and more like molecular malware
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The Next Web
CRISPR is less like molecular scissors and more like molecular malware
Last week I read an article about CRISPR, the latest tool scientists are using to edit DNA. It was a great piece – well researched, beautifully written, factually accurate. It covered some of the amazing projects scientist are working on using CRISPR, like…
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Boeing 737 Max ordered by Ryanair undergoes name change
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Boeing 737 Max ordered by Ryanair undergoes name change
Decision fuels speculation that troubled plane will be rebranded once it is given all clear to fly
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Alice and Bob: A History of the World’s Most Famous Cryptographic Couple (2017)
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Cryptocouple
Alice and Bob: The World’s Most Famous Cryptographic Couple
A History of Alice and Bob, by Quinn DuPont and Alana Cattapan (created 2017).
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Show HN: ImportDoc – Use the content from a Google Doc in any web page
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Polanyi’s Paradox
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Polanyi's paradox
Polanyi's paradox, named in honour of the British-Hungarian philosopher Michael Polanyi, is the theory that human knowledge of how the world functions and capability are, to a large extent, beyond our explicit understanding. The theory was articulated by…
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I Cancelled My Amazon Prime
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Why I cancelled my Amazon Prime account
I never really wanted Amazon Prime, but it took me two years to cancel.
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Avoid Artificial Stupidity
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Avoid artificial stupidity · Mapflat
The first step to AI - data democratisation
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Don't Cite the No Free Lunch Theorem
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Don't cite the No Free Lunch Theorem
Tldr; You probably shouldn’t be citing the "No Free Lunch" Theorem by Wolpert . If you’ve cited it somewhere, you might have used it to sup...
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Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software
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WSJ
Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software
The moon landing was one of the most important moments in the history of computing, laying the foundations for everything from fly-by-wire cockpits to the smartphones in our hands.
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U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State
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The Intercept
How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State
A nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives is working with Semptian, whose technology is monitoring the internet activity of 200 million people in China.
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Block Amazon and Any Site Using Amazon Web Services
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Apple Included Slower SSD in the New Macbook Air
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Apple included slower SSD in the new MacBook Air
As were shuffling around with the new MacBook Air that Apple introduced last week, we are learning more and more about it. The latest bit of info confirms Apple included a slower SSD compare to the 2018 model.
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Developer Tropes: “Google Does It”
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