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Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish engineer saw red
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Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket
Mats Järlström's fight shows you never cross an engineer
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Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan
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Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan
Blizzard Entertainment has postponed a World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary that was scheduled to take place in Taiwan.
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If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance
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MIT Technology Review
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
The distribution of wealth follows a well-known pattern sometimes called an 80:20 rule: 80 percent of the wealth is owned by 20 percent of the people. Indeed, a report last year concluded that just eight men had a total wealth equivalent to that of the world’s…
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Why Did ArchLinux Embrace Systemd? (2016)
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2brainz's comment on "Why did ArchLinux embrace Systemd?"
Explore this conversation and more from the archlinux community
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The voice from our Nest camera threatened to steal our baby
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Silicon Valley
The voice from our Nest camera threatened to steal our baby
A father Googled “Nest + camera + hacked” and found out that this happens frequently.
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Bank of America saved $2B per year ignoring Amazon, building own cloud
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Business Insider
Bank of America's CEO says that it's saved $2 billion per year by ignoring Amazon and Microsoft and building its own cloud instead
Brian Moynihan, Bank of America's CEO, highlighted the firm's decision to move to a private cloud on its third-quarter earnings call.
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Green Tea Press: Free Books by Allen B. Downey
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The Internet and the Third Estate
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Stratechery
The Internet and the Third Estate
Mark Zuckerberg suggested that social media is a “Fifth Estate”; in fact, social media is a means by which the Third Estate — commoners — can seize political power. Here history matters…
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AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
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The Information
AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
There are a lot of ways companies can rack up high bills for using cloud services, sometimes unexpectedly. One particularly stiff expense is the cost of shifting data from one cloud provider’s servers to another provider, or to a company’s own data center.…
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Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
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RLSL a Rust to SPIR-V Compiler
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RLSL A Rust to SPIR-V compiler Maik Klein, Embark Studios
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DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing. Exponentially?
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DuckDuckGo Traffic
Daily DuckDuckGo search traffic since 2010.
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Equifax used 'admin' as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit
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Yahoo Finance
Equifax used 'admin' as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit
A class action lawsuit filed in January 2019 claims Equifax used "admin" as both password and username for a portal with sensitive information.
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Google attempted to shut down a unionization meeting in Zurich
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Vox
Google’s attempt to shut down a unionization meeting just riled up its employees
Management tried to shut down an employee-led talk on unionization at its Zurich office, but it happened anyway.
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CRISPR therapy may reverse autism gene mutation effects in mice: study
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Spectrum
CRISPR therapy may reverse autism mutation’s effects well past infancy
CRISPR therapy — Injecting the gene-editing tool CRISPR into the brains of mice may reverse the effects of an autism mutation at any age.
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On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet Shakes Political Calm
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On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet Shakes Political Calm (Published 2019)
Residents of Norilsk long felt isolated from their country’s turbulence. Then a mining company strung a fiber-optic cable across 600 miles of tundra.
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The Decline of Stack Overflow
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The decline of Stack Overflow | Hacker Noon
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Software Test Desiderata
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Test Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence
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The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal election – ranked
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Niko Bell
The invented Chinese names of the 2019 federal election — ranked
It’s been a long, confusing, exhausting federal election season. We’re all tired. But put aside your worries, fellow citizens; it’s time for the invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal …
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Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined
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The fashion industry emits more carbon than international flights and maritime shipping combined. Here are the biggest ways it…
The fashion industry is the second-largest consumer of water and the second-largest polluter of water. Here's why.
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Samsung Kills 'Linux on DeX' with Android 10 Rollout
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TFiR | A video is worth a million words
Samsung Kills 'Linux on DeX' With Android 10 Rollout
Samsung will no longer provide support for the program for future operating systems and devices.
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