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‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the Town Bully
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The Daily Beast
‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Small Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the ‘Town Bully’
The new docuseries “No One Saw a Thing,” premiering Aug. 1 on SundanceTV, explores the 1981 killing of Ken Rex McElroy, a local menace executed in front of 60 townsfolk.
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Coinbase: Responding to Firefox 0-days in the wild
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Coinbase
Responding to Firefox 0-days in the wild
On Thursday, May 30, over a dozen Coinbase employees received an email purporting to be from Gregory Harris, a Research Grants Administrator at the University of Cambridge. This email came from the legitimate Cambridge domain, contained no malicious elem
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Show HN: I'm building a robot that cuts hair, starting with beard trims [video]
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YouTube
Buzz Robotics - prototype
Pitch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td7L3qREzqA&feature=youtu.be Buzz Robotics. Interested in knowing more or following along? Reach out to arithmet...
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CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom, Study Shows
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Rice University researchers invent way to boost solar efficiency from 22% to 80%
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PolyArch
Researchers at Rice University developed a method to convert heat into light that could boost solar efficiency from 22% to 80%
Scientists at Rice University have developed a method of turning heat into light using carbon nanotubes, which could greatly increase solar efficiency.
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M44 (Cyanide Device)
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Wikipedia
M44 (cyanide device)
device used to poison predators
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YouTube lets biggest stars off the hook for breaking rules, moderators say
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Ars Technica
YouTube lets biggest stars off the hook for breaking rules, moderators say
Moderators say YouTube overrode them when high-profile creators went too far.
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Home Chip Fab
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The Erlang Rationale
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Blogspot
The Erlang Rationale
It's been a very long time since the last post. So there have come up questions about the Erlang Rationale. I wrote this over 10 years ag...
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Launch HN: Together (YC S19) – App to facilitate employee-employee mentoring
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Climate change: Marine heatwaves kill coral instantly
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BBC News
Heatwaves 'instantly turn coral to ghosts'
Marine heat waves, associated with climate change, cause the rapid death of corals, research reveals.
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Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data
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TechCrunch
Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data
How safe are your secrets? If you used Amazon’s Elastic Block Storage snapshots, you might want to check your settings.
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Malaysia files charges against 17 current and ex-Goldman Sachs bosses
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the Guardian
1MDB: Malaysia files charges against 17 current and ex-Goldman Sachs bosses
Investment bank’s most senior bosses in London among top bankers facing criminal charges
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Welcome to Black Hat, where the attendees are the threat
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WSJ
Welcome to Black Hat, Where the Attendees Are the Threat
Safeguarding the U.S. cybersecurity conference’s network means protecting it from nearly 19,000 people who could try to hack it.
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Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Camera
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Kaspars Dambis
Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Camera
Update: this project was featured in issue 92 of the official Raspberry Pi magazine (download as PDF, buy the issue or subscribe). SSH-ing i...
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Major power failure affecting [UK] trains and airports
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BBC News
Major power failure affects homes and transport
Hundreds of people remain stranded in London after faulty generators caused power cuts in England and Wales.
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A journalist discovered and reunited identical twins
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Los Angeles Times
One is Chinese. One is American. How a journalist discovered and reunited identical twins
Seventeen years ago, Chinese authorities abducted one of a set of twins and sent her to an orphanage.
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The Utopian Promise of Adorno’s ‘Open Thinking,’ Fifty Years On
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The New York Review of Books
The Utopian Promise of Adorno’s ‘Open Thinking,’ Fifty Years On
The culture industry of the late-capitalist era has metastasized to such a degree that even resistance is easily co-opted by the market and what passes for criticism circulates in forms pre-packaged for consumption. In an environment saturated in social media…
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A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check
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NY Times
A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5,000 Check (Yes, a Check)
A novel twist on medical tourism to avoid the high cost of U.S. health care saves an employer money and even earns the patient a bonus.
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Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, scans license plates
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MuckRock
Huntington Park's new “RoboCop” stores pedestrians' faces, scans license plates, and costs $8,000 a month to run
Back in June, the Huntington Park Police Department in California announced the newest addition to the force: A 400-pound security robot dubbed “HP RoboCop.” According to recently released materials, the agency is paying $8,000 a month for the robot, which…
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Who Owns Huawei?
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Ssrn
Who Owns Huawei?
As Huawei has come under increasing scrutiny over the last several months, the question of who really owns and controls it has come to the fore. Huawei calls it
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