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Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because 'Cellphones Are Throwaways'
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Vice
Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because 'Cellphones Are Throwaways'
A New Hampshire lawmaker suggested that we shouldn't fix the $1,000 devices we buy and instead we will "just get a new one."
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Offshore wind to become a $1T industry
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Teen designs Hong Kong-inspired shoe only to have it dropped from Vans contest
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Kids News
Vans pulled teen’s Hong Kong-themed sneaker from contest
Toronto teen’s Free Hong Kong-themed sneaker design gets pulled from Vans design contest.
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Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Molecules
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research.google
Learning to Smell: Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Mo
Posted by Alexander B Wiltschko, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research Smell is a sense shared by an incredible range of living organisms, a...
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Who Killed the Scrollbar?
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Ello
feeling ranty: killed scrollbar - dredmorbius | ello
# While I'm feeling ranty: who killed the scrollbar?
It's not so bad on desktops, and I can restore it there anyway via CSS.
But on Mobile, it seems the hip hawt coolness for today's kids is to either completely disappear, or make only occasionally visible…
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Would aliens understand lambda calculus? (2018)
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tomasp.net
Would aliens understand lambda calculus?
The question whether aliens would understand lambda calculus
is intriguing because it vividly formulates a fundamental question about our formal mathematical
knowledge. Are mathematical theories and results about them invented, i.e. constructed by
humans…
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New 2MW electric vehicle chargers could revolutionise mining industry
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The Driven
New 2MW electric vehicle chargers could revolutionise mining industry
Electric vehicle charger from Swiss electrical equipment company ABB could revolutionise mining industry allowing easier deployment of zero emissions heavy vehicles and reducing need for ventilation.
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Dutch MoD appoints 72 citizens to cyber-military reserve force
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Reflections on My Career at Microsoft
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Medium
Speaking Truth to Power: Reflections on My Career at Microsoft
Microsoft engineer James Whittaker on how to fix the company
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Applying BERT models to Search
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Google
Understanding searches better than ever before
How new advances in the science of language understanding will help you find more useful information in Search.
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South-Pointing Chariot
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South-pointing chariot
The south-pointing chariot (or carriage) was an ancient Chinese two-wheeled vehicle that carried a movable pointer to indicate the south, no matter how the chariot turned. Usually, the pointer took the form of a doll or figure with an outstretched arm. The…
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Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization
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Foreign Policy
Economists on the Run
Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought…
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Ask HN: What are unintended consequences of new tech you've noticed?
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Bill Gates on Windows Usability
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Sriram Krishnan
A reader sent me this old classic - @BillGates yelling at a bunch of MSFT execs about how bad a download experience is. I was at MSFT at the time and remember this well... https://t.co/B93tGh8wHk
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DeepSORT: Deep Learning to Track Custom Objects in a Video
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Nanonets Blog | AI Document Processing & Workflow Automation
DeepSORT: Deep Learning to track custom objects in a video
Learn about the theory & challenges in Object Tracking and how to build a model to track custom objects in a video using DeepSORT.
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We tested Europe’s new lie detector for travelers and triggered a false positive
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The Intercept
We Tested Europe’s New Lie Detector for Travelers — and Immediately Triggered a False Positive
4.5 million euros have been pumped into the virtual policeman project meant to judge the honesty of travelers. An expert calls the technology “not credible.”
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Back from the Blender Conference
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Supercritical CO2 is heavy like a liquid, with weird and useful properties
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Popula
CO2: Foe, or… Friend?
Supercritical CO2 is heavy like a liquid but as penetrating as a gas, with surprisingly weird and useful properties.
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Show HN: Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks
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GitHub
GitHub - victorqribeiro/aimAndShoot: A neuroevolution game experiment.
A neuroevolution game experiment. Contribute to victorqribeiro/aimAndShoot development by creating an account on GitHub.
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My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
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Medium
My Company Sold for $100 Million And I Got Zilch. How Can That Be?
Heidi Roizen answers your questions
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PG&E now considering a power blackout in all of its California territory
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Jon Passantino
PG&E now considering a power blackout in all of its California territory this wknd over extreme fire risk — an unprecedented action. "this system will be the strongest of the year and likely will be stronger than the October 2017 northern CA fire event.”…
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