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Nim's author on v1 launch: Personal words about version 1
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Match.com
Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, FTC Says
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Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says
In a lawsuit, the government agency contended that the dating site tried to dupe hundreds of thousands of consumers into buying dating subnoscriptions.
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High-severity vulnerability in vBulletin is being actively exploited
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High-severity vulnerability in vBulletin is being actively exploited
Devs push a fix for the flaw, but hackers are still hitting unpatched sites.
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Why I'm Worried About the Repo Market
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What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?
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Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world
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TechCrunch
Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world
Facebook today announced it’s building its own Ready Player One Oasis. Facebook Horizon is a virtual reality sandbox universe where you can build your own environments and games, play and socialize with friends or just explore the user-generated landscapes.…
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Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box
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Ray Tracing Denoising
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Alain.xyz
Ray Tracing Denoising
An overview of ray tracing denoising, reviewing filtering, spatiotemporal, sampling and AI techniques to improve convergence and temporal coherency in real time ray traced applications.
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A Criminologist Accused of Cooking the Books
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Deep Learning with Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems
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How the invention of the book changed how people read
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The British Academy
How the invention of the book changed how people read
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An ecologist who wants to map everything
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Nature
The ecologist who wants to map everything
Thomas Crowther wants to restore the planet, but first he needs to know how many trees, fungi, worms and microbes live on it.
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AI becoming so expensive it is freezing out universities
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At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power (Published 2019)
A.I. research is becoming increasingly expensive, leaving few people with easy access to the computing firepower necessary to develop the technology.
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At Least 70 Countries Have Engaged in Disinformation Campaigns
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NY Times
At Least 70 Countries Have Had Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds (Published 2019)
Governments are using “cyber troops” to discredit political opponents, bury opposing views and interfere in foreign affairs, according to Oxford researchers.
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Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession
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Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents
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Koen Rouwhorst
If you share a Dropbox Paper document publicly, any viewer can see the full name and email address of _any_ Dropbox user who ever opened that document, which seems problematic.
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NASA and ESA are going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to deflect it
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MIT Technology Review
We’re going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to try to deflect it
An Earth-bound asteroid wouldn’t have to be huge to be a problem. Even something just a couple of hundred feet across could cause widespread devastation if it hit a town or city. For the objects we can track (and plenty slip by without our realizing until…
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Gigantic Chinese telescope opens to astronomers worldwide
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Nature
Gigantic Chinese telescope opens to astronomers worldwide
FAST has superior sensitivity to detect cosmic phenomena, including fast radio bursts and pulsars.
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Uber stopped its own investigators from reporting crimes to the police
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The Verge
Uber stopped its own investigators from reporting crimes to the police
"We’re not law enforcement."
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Abacus tournaments in Japan
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NY Times
The Right Answer? 8,186,699,633,530,061 (An Abacus Makes It Look Almost Easy)
The abacus is still taught in Japanese schools, although not as intensively as it once was. But the centuries-old tool is still popular, and national tournaments attract elite competitors.
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Programming Idioms – Please don't reinvent the wheel
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