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SpaceX just filed a request to run 30k more Starlink satellites in orbit
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MIT Technology Review
SpaceX just filed a request to run 30,000 more Starlink satellites in orbit
If SpaceX gets approval, it could single-handedly quintuple the total number of spacecraft launched by humans.
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Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable
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Urban living makes us miserable. This city is trying to change that
How Glasgow is being redesigned to be a healthier and happier place.
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DNS Security: Threat Modeling DNSSEC, DoT, and DoH
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How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
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Space
Methuselah: The oldest star in the universe
How can a star be older than the universe?
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IBM’s Technology Powered the Holocaust
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kottke.org
How IBM’s Technology Powered the Holocaust
According to a book by human rights journalist Edwin Black, Hitler needed logistical help in carrying out the genocide of Europe’s Jewish population. IBM, an American company whose leadership was obsessed with gr
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Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
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TechCrunch
Algolia finds $110M from Accel and Salesforce for its search-as-a-service, used by Slack, Twitch and 8K others
Algolia, one of the group of startups that provides search as a service for websites and apps as an alternative to Google and other search engines, is
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Docker containers in space
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balena
Beyond the cloud: Docker containers in space
On the 13th June 2019, a rocket launched from Kiruna, Sweden, carrying 280kg of scientific experiments; among them, a Raspberry Pi Zero running Docker containers on balenaOS. To our knowledge this is the first time a Moby/Docker container engine has been…
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Pontevedra, Spain’s Happy Little Carless City
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Reasons to be Cheerful
Spain’s Happy Little Carless City
Wherever you find advocates for saner transportation, their dream scenario usually hinges on the same outcome: making cities blissfully free of cars. To this end, the Spanish city of Pontevedra, population 84,000, has done something remarkable: it has reduced…
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Bitcoin uses 625kWh of power and 95g of e-waste per transaction
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Digiconomist
Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index - Digiconomist
The Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index provides the latest estimate of the total energy consumption of the Bitcoin network.
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Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%
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Why Renaissance Paintings Aren't as Green as They Used to Be
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Atlas Obscura
Why Renaissance Paintings Aren’t as Green as They Used to Be
Once a brilliant hue, the pigment verdigris is now mostly brown.
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HAMR – 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image
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Medium
HAMR — 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image
End-to-end Hand Mesh Recovery from a Monocular RGB Image.
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Paris zoo unveils the “blob”, an organism with no brain but 720 sexes
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Reuters
Paris zoo unveils the "blob", an organism with no brain but 720 sexes
PARIS (Reuters) - A Paris zoo showcased a mysterious new organism on Wednesday, dubbed the “blob”, a yellowish unicellular small living being which looks like a fungus but acts like an animal.
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Two kernel mysteries and the most technical talk I've ever seen
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Two kernel mysteries and the most technical talk I've ever seen
Two Kernel Mysteries and The Most Technical Talk I've Ever Seen (Linux Ftrace kernel internals)
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FPGA Design for Software Engineers
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Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service
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Square Corner Blog
Books, an immutable double-entry accounting database service
Tracking financial transactions at scale
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People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct
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IAU Statement on Satellite Constellations
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International Astronomical Union | IAU
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Focused and Diffuse: Two Modes of Thinking
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Farnam Street
Focused and Diffuse: Two Modes of Thinking
Our brains employ two modes of thinking to tackle any large task: focused and diffuse. Both are equally valuable but serve very different purposes. To do your best work, you need to master both.
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Stones and Apples
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Mathspace Blog
Stones and apples
"How can it be that two objects, initially traveling in parallel, can continue each moving in a straight line and yet end up meeting one another?" Jake reveals the answer in this interesting thought experiment.
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No One Knows Why Humans Can Walk
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Literary Hub
No One Really Knows Why Humans Can Walk
No one knows why we walk. Out of some 250 species of primates, we are the only ones that have elected to get up and move around exclusively on two legs. Some authorities think bipedalism is at leas…
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