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Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons
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MarketWatch
Amazon will pull the plug on Dash buttons at the end of August
Those little branded gadgets that let users reorder products with just one touch will stop working at the end of August, Amazon said Thursday.
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Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp
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The Information
Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp
In a big shift, Facebook plans to signal its control of Instagram and WhatsApp by adding its name to both apps, according to three people familiar with the matter. The social network will rebrand the apps to “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook…
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More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp
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SpaCy PyTorch Transformers
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explosion.ai
spaCy meets Transformers: Fine-tune BERT, XLNet and GPT-2 · Explosion
Huge transformer models like BERT, GPT-2 and XLNet have set a new standard for accuracy on almost every NLP leaderboard. You can now use these models in spaCy, via a new interface library we've developed that connects spaCy to Hugging Face's awesome implementations.
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Building a Programming Language Pt. 3 – Interpreting
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China’s options for retaliating against tariffs are limited by its own economy
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NY Times
China Wants to Hit Back at Trump. Its Own Economy Stands in the Way.
Beijing’s leaders have increasingly focused on rekindling growth as the trade war drags on and negotiations prove difficult to control or predict.
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Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
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alexdanco.com
Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
I’m sure many of you either have an Alexa-powered device in your house, or at least have played around with one somewhere. So it won’t be surprising to you that Amazon has been partnering with home…
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Lawsuit filed against GitHub in wake of Capital One data breach
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TheHill
Lawsuit filed against GitHub in wake of Capital One data breach
Capital One and GitHub have been hit with a class-action lawsuit over the recent data breach that resulted in the data of over 100 million Capital One customers and credit card applicants being
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Amazon allegedly scammed out of $370K by 22-year-old's return shipments of dirt
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Fox Business
Amazon allegedly scammed out of $370K by 22-year-old's return shipments of dirt
A 22-year-old is accused of scamming the largest internet retailer in the world out of nearly $370,000 by sending returned packages with dirt.
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Who Did the Maya Sacrifice?
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The Economist
Who did the Maya sacrifice?
Anyone and everyone
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Rome Is the Fulcrum of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot
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The Next Platform
Rome Is The Fulcrum Of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot
The good news about having a diverse product line, as chip maker AMD increasingly does, is that the company operates like a multi-cylinder engine and that
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Dreaming about Better Sleep: Dreem, Oura and the Rest
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Medium
Dreaming about Better Sleep: Dreem, Oura and the Rest
A real-life comparison of the top sleep-tracking gadgets will change what you thought about your sleep and sleep measurements.
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Bad Times in Tech? Not If You’re a Startup Serving Other Startups
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NY Times
Bad Times in Tech? Not if You’re a Start-Up Serving Other Start-Ups (Published 2019)
Meet the two Stanford dropouts, both 23, who run Brex, which provides charge cards to start-ups. Its growth is a sign of Silicon Valley’s unflagging exuberance.
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Roaring glacial melt under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland
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Twitter
Laurie Garrett
This is a roaring glacial melt, under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland where it's 22C today and Danish officials say 12 billions tons of ice melted in 24 hours, yesterday. https://t.co/Rl2odG4xWj
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AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is such a hit it almost outsold Intel’s entire CPU range
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TechRadar
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is such a hit it almost outsold Intel’s entire CPU range
Intel needs an answer to Ryzen 3rd-gen processors, and quick, by the looks of things.
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BiVector: Community for Geometric Algebra for CGI, Vision and Engineering
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The Real Dark Web
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The Real Dark Web
We rarely acknowledge the vast majority of web developers.
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Almost half of Europe’s soil is dryer than normal
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vis4.net
Almost half of Europe's soil is dryer than normal
Visual analysis of soil moisture anomalies in Europe since 1995
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I found an easter egg from 1977
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I found an easter egg from 1977
Spitfire on the Channel F is like the plane mode in Atari’s Combat, except with the option to play it alone against the machine. Also, I found an easter egg in it, which might (might) be the World’s First Easter Egg in a Videogame (maybe idk). Here’s what…
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“Awakenings” in Advanced Dementia Patients Hint at Untapped Brain Reserves
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Scientific American
“Awakenings” in Advanced Dementia Patients Hint at Untapped Brain Reserves
Numerous reports documenting lucid moments at the end of life spur Alzheimer’s researchers to explore the phenomenon
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Killing a process and all of its descendants is surprisingly hard on Linux
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morningcoffee.io
Killing a process and all of its descendants
Killing processes in a Unix-like system can be trickier than expected. Last
week I was debugging an odd issue related to job stopping on Semaphore.
More specifically, an issue related to the killing of a running process in a
job.
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