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Europe's heat wave moves to Greenland, threatens world's 2nd largest ice sheet
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CBC
Europe's record heat wave threatens major ice sheet in Greenland | CBC News
The hot air that smashed European weather records this week looks set to move towards Greenland and could take the world's second largest ice sheet close to or below record low ice levels set in 2012, the United Nations said on Friday.
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Tree stumps that should be dead can be kept alive by nearby trees
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New Scientist
Tree stumps that should be dead can be kept alive by nearby trees
A tree stump that should have died is being kept alive by neighbouring trees that are funnelling water and nutrients to it through an interconnected root system
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Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges
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BBC News
Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges
Marcus Hutchins had previously pleaded guilty to two charges of writing banking malware.
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Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for 16-inch MacBook Pro
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MacRumors
Apple Expected to Adopt Keyboard With Scissor Mechanism for Upcoming 16-inch MacBook Pro
Apple is planning to use a scissor mechanism rather than a butterfly mechanism for its upcoming 16-inch MacBook Pro, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said...
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Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time
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CNN
Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time
Wind power has surpassed coal for the first time in Texas, according to a new report.
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Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth
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The Seattle Times
Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth
The pretty hefty "Asteroid 2019 OK" (its official name) was discovered only this week. One astronomer said it proves there are "still dangerous asteroids out there that we don't know...
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In the US, you need more info for a library card than creating a corporation
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Global Financial Integrity
The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous Companies in the United States - Global Financial Integrity
As it happens, more corporations – anonymous and public – are established in the United States each year than in any other jurisdiction.
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Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works
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The Economist
Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works
Perish the thought of building more homes
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Gin, Sex, Malaria, and the Hunt for Academic Prestige
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Show HN: I built a spreadsheet app with Python to make data science easier
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Hackernoon
How I built a spreadsheet app with Python to make data science easier
Today I'm open sourcing "Grid studio", a web-based spreadsheet application with full integration of the Python programming language.
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Siri records fights, doctor’s appointments, and sex, and contractors hear it
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Ars Technica
Siri records fights, doctor’s appointments, and sex (and contractors hear it)
In a new report, Apple takes its turn in the crosshairs over how it reviews user recordings.
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Moody’s Buys Climate Data Firm, Signaling New Scrutiny of Climate Risks
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NY Times
Moody’s Buys Climate Data Firm, Signaling New Scrutiny of Climate Risks
The bond-rating agency's purchase of Four Twenty Seven suggests that governments and companies that ignore climate threats could be penalized.
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The Aesthetic Beauty of Math
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The Paris Review
The Aesthetic Beauty of Math
The best mathematics, like the best literature, will continue to cause intense emotional satisfaction to thousands of people after thousands of years.
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Why we don't use Galileo's last name (2009)
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Slate Magazine
Why we don't use Galileo's last name.
Four hundred years ago this month, Galileo Galilei presented his eight-powered telescope to the Venetian Senate. He was soon working with a 20-powered...
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Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards
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TechCrunch
How Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards
Nestled among the many indistinguishable buildings of Microsoft's Redmond campus, a multi-disciplinary team sharing an attention to detail that borders on fanatical is designing a keyboard... again and again and again. And one more time for good measure.…
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Amazon Transcribe Streaming Now Supports WebSockets
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Amazon
Amazon Transcribe Streaming Now Supports WebSockets | Amazon Web Services
I love services like Amazon Transcribe. They are the kind of just-futuristic-enough technology that excites my imagination the same way that magic does. It’s incredible that we have accurate, automatic speech recognition for a variety of languages and accents…
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Latest 737 Max Fault That Alarmed Test Pilots Rooted in Software
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Planning to Start, Planning to Finish
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Substack
Planning to Start, Planning to Finish
Listen now (12 min) | This week’s podcast (12 minutes) is on a crucial difference, between planning to start, and planning to finish. We talk a lot about the difference between more and less planning, on the spectrum between full waterfall and full agile…
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GraphQL Performance Monitoring Is Hard
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Medium
Why GraphQL Performance Monitoring is Hard
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The gotchas of measuring GraphQL performance, and promising ideas for the future.
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Open source all-iron battery for renewable energy storage
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Sciencedirect
Open source all-iron battery for renewable energy storage
The price of renewable energy is dropping rapidly. Energy storage will be needed to take full advantage of abundant but intermittent energy sources. E…
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Show HN: A Demo IDE for Scheme
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kennethfriedman.org
Toski
Debugging Better
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