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Decentralized DNS Is Here
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Privacy News Online by Private Internet Access VPN
Private Internet Access users can now resolve internet names with the Handshake Naming System (HNS)
Starting since version 1.30, the Mac, Linux, and Windows Private Internet Access (PIA) desktop clients have come with the ability to change the selected
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Baking bread from a 4,500-year-old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery
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Seamus Blackley
Two weeks ago, with the help of Egyptologist @drserenalove and Microbiologist @rbowman1234, I went to Boston’s MFA and @Harvard’s @peabodymuseum to attempt collecting 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery. Today, I baked with some of it...
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‘I don’t smell ’ Meet the people who have stopped washing
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the Guardian
‘I don’t smell!’ Meet the people who have stopped washing
A growing number of people are eschewing soap and trusting bacteria to do the job instead – and an entire industry has sprung up to accommodate them
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Recursive language and modern imagination were acquired 70k years ago
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phys.org
Recursive language and modern imagination were acquired simultaneously 70,000 years ago
A genetic mutation that slowed down the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in two or more children may have triggered a cascade of events leading to acquisition of recursive language and modern ...
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Seashells – Pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real time
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Effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide on soil ecosystem
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Nature
Effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide on soil animal trophic groups and associated ecosystem functioning in a northern agricultural…
Scientific Reports - Effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide on soil animal trophic groups and associated ecosystem functioning in a northern agricultural field
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Being basic as a virtue
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Nadia Eghbal
Being basic as a virtue
Silicon Valley is a coal mine for ideas. There’s something special about it: unlike a coal miner, you get to keep and sell what you extract from the ore deposits, and I feel lucky to have the setup that I do. But it is work.
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Open list of GDPR fines so far
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lknik/gdpr
Contribute to lknik/gdpr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
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AnandTech
Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
Today at Flash Memory Summit, Toshiba is debuting a new form factor for NVMe SSDs that is small enough to be a removable alternative to soldered-down BGA SSDs. The new XFMEXPRESS form factor allows for two or four PCIe lanes while taking up much less space…
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Google Voice is killing SMS voicemail trannoscripts and Chrome Extension texting
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Android Police
Google Voice is killing SMS voicemail trannoscripts and Chrome Extension texting
Google Voice takes your phone subnoscription to the next level, thanks to advanced features such as voicemail trannoscription and web texting and calling. The
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NYC Mesh is an all-volunteer community creating its own high-speed internet svc.
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WSJ
New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
NYC Mesh is a band of about 50 volunteers building their own internet service for which members donate about $20 a month for a high-speed connection.
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Google Chrome Hides WWW and HTTPS:// In the Address Bar Again
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BleepingComputer
Google Chrome Hides WWW and HTTPS:// in the Address Bar Again
After installing Google Chrome 76, if you feel like something is missing from the address bar you would be correct. This is because Google has decided to once again hide, or elide, the "www" subdomain and also "https://" from the address of the web site you…
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It’s worth spending weeks on research before wasting years on a hopeless project
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Ottofeller
OttoFeller — How to conduct research and successfully launch a product
Launching a product without research rarely leads to success, unless you have 50-plus years experience in the market and in the niche of a product. To those who are not that old and not that wise, the following steps will help to reduce the risk of wasting…
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A Commercial Path to Fusion
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Physics World
A commercial path to fusion
Alex Creely and Erica Salazar describe how a private company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, is betting on advanced magnet technologies to make the fusion dream a reality
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Documentation – Your Secret Weapon
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Anup Jadhav
Documentation - your secret weapon
When you work on a software project, someone will eventually ask a variation of this dreaded question - "Do you know where I can find documentation for this feature?" or "Do you know why we implemented pattern x over pattern y?" or my personal favourite "What…
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A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises
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Nytimes
A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises (Published 2019)
Around the world, 17 countries are currently facing extremely high water stress. Climate change is making the problem worse.
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AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network
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GeekWire
Seattle-area AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network, authorities say
A 34-year-old citizen of Pakistan is charged with paying more than $1 million in bribes to employees at AT&T's Seattle-area offices and call centers
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Hospital checklists are meant to save lives – so why do they often fail?
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Nature News & Comment
Hospital checklists are meant to save lives — so why do they often fail?
An easy method that promised to cut complications in surgery may not be so simple after all.
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Launch HN: Lang (YC S19) – Internationalization Built for Devs
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Unison File Synchronizer
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Git-Revise
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mystor.github.io
Introducing git-revise
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