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‘Fleeceware’ apps overcharge users for basic app functionality
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Sophos News
‘Fleeceware’ apps overcharge users for basic app functionality
Unscrupulous publishers take advantage of Play Market policy loopholes to charge app users hundreds of dollars
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Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform
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TechCrunch
Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform
Gatsby, a platform that uses modern web technologies like React and GraphQL to help developers build better sites faster, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A round led by CRV. Previous investors Trinity Ventures, Mango Capital, Fathom…
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Commit Graph Drawing Algorithms
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pvigier’s blog
Commit Graph Drawing Algorithms
This article is one chapter of my master thesis ennoscriptd “Design and implementation of a graphical user interface for git”. It describes the algorithm I designed to draw the commit graph in my own prototype git client called gitamine. I have adapted the content…
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Why Thomas Cook Collapsed
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CityLab
Why Thomas Cook Faltered As Urban Tourism Boomed
With cheap flights and Airbnb at their fingertips, British travelers have branched out from the package beach vacations that were Thomas Cook’s specialty.
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New ES2019 JavaScript features
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LogRocket Blog
New and potential ES2019 JavaScript features every developer should be excited about - LogRocket Blog
Check out new ES2019 Javanoscript features including optional chaining, the pipeline operator, and others.
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Rocket Mail
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Be wary of functions which take several parameters of the same type
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U.S. Judges Admit Enhanced Interrogation Is Torture
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Boston Review
U.S. Judges Admit Enhanced Interrogation Is Torture
They also acknowledged, for the first time, that the grounds for torturing Abu Zubaydah—who was detained in the wake of September 11 and is still languishing in Guantánamo—were mistaken.
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New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases
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Science
New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases
Privacy experts welcome policy on use of ancestry sites
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New Mac Pro Tech Specs
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Apple
Mac Pro - Technical Specifications
See all the technical specifications for Mac Pro with the M2 Ultra chip.
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Cormac McCarthy on how to write a science paper
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Nature
Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper
Nature - The Pulitzer prizewinner shares his advice for pleasing readers, editors and yourself.
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Facebook tries hiding Like counts to fight envy
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TechCrunch
Facebook tries hiding Like counts to fight envy
If their post has lots of Likes, you feel jealous. If your post doesn’t get enough Likes, you feel embarrassed. And when you just chase Likes, you distort your life seeking moments that score them, or censor it fearing you won’t look popular without them.
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Rust 1.38.0
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blog.rust-lang.org
Announcing Rust 1.38.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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GitHub Releases an ImageNet for Code
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The GitHub Blog
Introducing the CodeSearchNet challenge
We’re announcing the CodeSearchNet Challenge and releasing a large dataset for natural language processing and machine learning.
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Twitter launches its ‘Hide Replies’ feature in the US and Japan
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TechCrunch
Twitter launches its controversial ‘Hide Replies’ feature in the US and Japan
Twitter’s controversial “Hide Replies” feature, aimed at civilizing conversations on its platform, is launching today in the U.S. and Japan after earlier tests in Canada. The addition is one of the more radical changes to Twitter to date. It puts people back…
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Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world
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Meta
Horizon Worlds | Virtual reality worlds and communities
Explore Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest – the most collaborative platform in VR. Our creative tools were built to help you bring your wildest dreams to life.
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It’s Not You, It’s Me
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The Point Magazine
It’s Not You, It’s Me | The Point Magazine
Intimates and strangers use twins not just to get clear on the nature of their own self, but also to think about the nature of the self in general.
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Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project
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Dickmann's Autonomous Cars, 1980s [video]
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YouTube
Dickmann's autonomous cars, 1980s
Short video about Ernst Dickmanns VaMoR and VaMP projects - fully autonomous vehicles, which travelled thousands of miles autonomously on public roads in 1980s.
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Self-serve first: an overlooked paradigm underlying great software companies
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Medium
Self-serve first: the overlooked but essential paradigm underlying great software companies
“My biggest regret is that our first customer was $1M ACV*,” my friend lamented over coffee the other day. “I wish I could take it back.”
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Upstreaming multipath TCP
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lwn.net
Upstreaming multipath TCP
The multipath TCP (MPTCP) protocol (and the
Linux implementation of it) have been
under development for a solid decade; MPTCP offers a number of advantages for
devices that have more than one network interface available. Despite
having been deployed widely…
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