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Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020
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TechCrunch
Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020
Add another one to the Google graveyard. Google has disclosed that it will shut down Google Hire, the job application tracking system it launched just two
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Fracking in U.S. and Canada Linked to Worldwide Atmospheric Methane Spike
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Newsweek
Fracking in U.S. and Canada linked to worldwide atmospheric methane spike
"The commercialization of shale gas and oil in the 21st century has dramatically increased global methane emissions", said the scientist behind the study.
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Chinese located/arrest BBC reporter in 7 min with facial recognition (2017)
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TechCrunch
China's CCTV surveillance network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter | TechCrunch
It took Chinese authorities just seven minutes to locate and apprehend BBC reporter John Sudworth using its powerful network of CCTV camera and facial
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Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure
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jacobsschool.ucsd.edu
Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure
UC San Diego researchers have discovered the root cause of why lithium metal batteries fail, challenging a long-held belief in the field. The study pr...
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Secret Memos Show the Government Has Been Lying About Backpage All Along
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Reason
Secret Memos Show the Government Has Been Lying About Backpage All Along
Sealed memos fought over in federal court last week show authorities have known for years that claims about Backpage were bogus.
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Dividing Droplets Could Explain Origin of Life
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Quanta Magazine
Dividing Droplets Could Explain Life’s Origin
Researchers have discovered that simple “chemically active” droplets grow to the size of cells and spontaneously divide, suggesting they might have evolved into the first living cells.
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Mainlanders don't all view Hong Kong the same way
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ChinaFile
China’s Government Wants You to Think All Mainlanders View Hong Kong
Mainland Chinese flood the Internet with messages calling protesters in Hong Kong “useless youth.” They send obscene messages and death threats to supporters of the Hong Kong demonstrations. But
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Harvard Student Barred from U.S. over His Friends’ Social Media Posts
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NY Times
Harvard Student Says He Was Barred From U.S. Over His Friends’ Social Media Posts (Published 2019)
Ismail Ajjawi, 17, a Palestinian from Lebanon, said he was denied entry after a customs agent took issue with posts written by others.
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What are children dying from and what can we do about it?
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Our World in Data
What are children dying from and what can we do about it?
15,000 children under five years old die every day. To reduce this figure we need to understand what children are dying from, and what interventions are available to stop this. Here we look at the number of children dying by each cause – from pneumonia to…
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Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption”
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Congruence - The Congruent Labs Blog
Stop calling it "Military-Grade Encryption"
One of the common marketing phrases I intentionally omitted from our product information is "Military-Grade Encryption". Another fairly common one is "Banking-Grade Encryption". I believe these phrases should just be replaced with "Industry Standard Encryption"…
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Entropic: A federated package registry for anything
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GitHub - entropic-dev/entropic:
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a package registry for anything, but mostly javanoscript
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:package: a package registry for anything, but mostly javanoscript
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a package registry for anything, but mostly javanoscript
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Western officials say Chinese agents contact foreign citizens using LinkedIn
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NY Times
How China Uses LinkedIn to Recruit Spies Abroad (Published 2019)
Western intelligence officials say Chinese agents are contacting thousands of foreign citizens using LinkedIn, including former government officials.
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Halt the use of facial-recognition technology until it is regulated
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Nature
Halt the use of facial-recognition technology until it is regulated
Nature - Until appropriate safeguards are in place, we need a moratorium on biometric technology that identifies individuals, says Kate Crawford.
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WTF – The Terminal Dashboard
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The Broken Chain Problem
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Blogspot
Four Parables, One Lesson: The Broken Chain Problem
The Emperor’s Nose (Richard Feynman) A village in a remote corner of an empire decided to erect a statue of the emperor. The village scu...
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Show HN: Repository of open source space-related software and hardware
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GitHub - orbitalindex/awesome-space:
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A list of awesome space-related packages and resources maintained by The Orbital Index
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A list of awesome space-related packages and resources maintained by The Orbital Index - orbitalindex/awesome-space
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UK Government to Ask Queen to Suspend Parliament
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BBC News
Parliament suspension: Queen approves PM's plan
The PM says there will still be time to debate Brexit before October's deadline, but the move sparks anger and a new legal challenge.
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Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
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Firefox
Firefox Developer Edition
Firefox Developer Edition is the blazing fast browser that offers cutting edge developer tools and latest features like CSS Grid support and framework debugging
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Python rounds float values by converting them to string and then back
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cpython/floatobject.c at main · python/cpython
The Python programming language. Contribute to python/cpython development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
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Craig Wright ordered to hand over half of his alleged Bitcoin holdings
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the Guardian
Australian who says he invented bitcoin ordered to hand over up to $5bn
US court orders Craig Wright to share cryptocurrency haul with the estate of American programmer David Kleiman
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