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Words that do Handstands
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Fake-branded bars slip dirty gold into world markets
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Reuters
Exclusive: Fake-branded bars slip dirty gold into world markets
A forgery crisis is quietly roiling the world's gold industry.
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Sacklers Would Give Up Ownership of Purdue Pharma Under Settlement Proposal
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NY Times
Sacklers Would Give Up Ownership of Purdue Pharma Under Settlement Proposal (Published 2019)
The company is in discussions to resolve thousands of lawsuits. Participants in the talks value the plan at between $10 billion and $12 billion.
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Possible detection of a black hole with a mass that was thought to be impossible
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Quanta Magazine
A Black Hole So Big It ‘Should Not Exist’
Researchers have confirmed rumors of a black hole collision that challenges our ideas about how black holes form.
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Julia's Release Process
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julialang.org
Julia’s Release Process
Julia’s Release Process | People involved in the day-to-day development of a project tend to become so familiar with its rhythm and process that they internalize it and it feels like everyone must just _know_ how each stage unfolds. Of course, from the outside…
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Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett (Intel)
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Packt
“Rust is the future of systems programming, C is the new Assembly”: Intel principal engineer, Josh Triplett
At Open Source Technology Summit (OSTS) 2019, Josh Triplett, a Principal Engineer at Intel gave an insight into what Intel is contributing to bring the most loved language, Rust to full parity with C.
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Thunderbird 68.0 Released
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Thunderbird
Thunderbird — Release Notes (68.0)
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A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds
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BusinessBlogs Hub
Gerald Ratner destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds
Have you ever heard of the “Ratner effect”? By the end of this post, you will know what it means. Gerald Ratner inherited his father’s jewelry business in 1984. He had turned a small retailer into a multimillion-dollar empire within six years. He made it…
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A 2019 Guide to Speech Synthesis with Deep Learning
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Fritz ai
A 2019 Guide to Speech Synthesis with Deep Learning - Fritz ai
Artificial production of human speech is known as speech synthesis. This machine learning-based technique is applicable in text-to-speech, music generation, speech generation, speech-enabled devices, navigation systems, and accessibility for visually-impaired…
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The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
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PhD punished for reporting adviser's fabricated research
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The Daily Beast
Tufts Grad: I Was Punished for Flagging Prof’s Fake Research
Kristy Meadows—who received Ph.D.s from Tufts in biomedical science and in veterinary medicine—claims she has been unable to get a job since she reported the alleged misconduct.
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What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?
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Moderntreasury
What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person? | Modern Treasury Journal
When an ACH return occurs, the payment is reversed. This means that if you had paid someone, the money will come back to your account. Or if you had charged someone, you will lose the money you thought you received. But how does that reversal happen?
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GCC null pointer check removed
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Rich Families Are Legally Separating from Their Kids to Pay Less for College
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Vice
Rich Families Are Legally Separating from Their Kids to Pay Less for College
It's the latest tactic the wealthy use to game the system.
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How we reduced deployment times by 95%
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Plaid - Blog
How we reduced deployment times by 95%
As Plaid grows, so does the scale of our infrastructure. We currently run over 20 internal services and deploy over 50 code commits per day across our core services. Minimizing deployment time is therefore of vital importance to maximizing our iteration velocity.…
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)
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The Public Domain Review
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)
Poe’s story of a treasure hunt, revealing the fantastical writer’s hyper-rational penchant for cracking codes.
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Improving Siri's Privacy Protection
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Apple Newsroom
Improving Siri’s privacy protections
Our goal with Siri, the pioneering intelligent assistant, is to provide the best experience for our customers while vigilantly protecting their privacy.
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exFAT in the Linux kernel
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Microsoft Open Source Blog
exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!
We’re pleased to announce that Microsoft is supporting the addition of Microsoft’s exFAT technology to the Linux kernel.
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Show HN: I built a site to compare fees and rates for sending money abroad
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Are spies more trouble than they're worth?
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The New Yorker
Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth?
The history of espionage is a lesson in paradox: the better your intelligence, the dumber your conduct; the more you know, the less you anticipate.
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Software Engineering Grads Lack the Skills Startups Need
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IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News
Software Engineering Grads Lack the Skills Startups Need
Study shows university software engineering programs focus too much on the needs of large companies
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