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The High-Stakes Race to Build the World’s First Flying Taxi
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NY Times
Inside the High-Stakes Race to Build the World’s First Flying Taxi (Published 2019)
Lilium, a German start-up, illustrates the potential and the risks of creating a new generation of electric aircraft for urban transportation.
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20K Workers Will Be Jobless in Indian IT Sector, Thanks to Infosys and Cognizant
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Blogspot
Approximately 20,000 employees will be jobless out of Indian IT Industry soon, thanks to Infosys and Cognizant
Some of the worst fears about the Indian IT industry are coming true. While Infosys was already reeling under pressure due to whistleblower...
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Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP
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WSJ
WSJ News Exclusive | Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP
Copier maker Xerox has set its sights on a takeover of personal-computer and printer maker HP, an audacious move that would unite two fading technology stars.
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Bivariate Maps with React and D3
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GitHub
GitHub - benjazehr/bivariate-maps-react-d3: A minimal react app that can display bivariate choropleth maps of Switzerland
A minimal react app that can display bivariate choropleth maps of Switzerland - benjazehr/bivariate-maps-react-d3
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Congolese doctor discovered Ebola, but didn't get credit until now
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Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
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typora.io
A new way to read & write Markdown
Typora is a cross-platform minimal markdown editor, providing seamless experience for both markdown readers and writers.
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Recursive Mono and Sans, a free variable type family
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www.recursive.design
Recursive Sans & Mono
A highly flexible variable font for design, code, and UI.
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Design Better Data Tables
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Medium
Design better data tables
The ingredients of a successful data table UI
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Passivhaus
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Journal
Passivhaus Detailing and Design: A Complete Guide for Architects - Architizer Journal
Walshaw's book goes far beyond the usual summaries of the Passivhaus approach, including in-depth technical guidance, CAD drawings and even 3D models of key details needed to create an exemplary Passivhaus structure.
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File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: lessons from Ceph evolution
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SoftBank Reveals $6.5B Loss from Uber, WeWork Turmoil
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Association between gifts from pharma group to drug prescribed by French doctors
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The BMJ
Association between gifts from pharmaceutical companies to French general practitioners and their drug prescribing patterns in…
Objective To evaluate the association between gifts from pharmaceutical companies to French general practitioners (GPs) and their drug prescribing patterns.
Design Retrospective study using data from two French databases (National Health Data System, managed…
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Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio
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TechCrunch
You can now try Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio
Earlier this year, at its Build developers conference, Microsoft announced that it was working on a web-based version of its Visual Studio IDE. At the time, Visual Studio Online went into a private preview, open to a select number of developers. Now, at its…
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TheForger's Win32 API Programming Tutorial
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Remember the Uber self-driving car that killed a woman crossing the street?
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Theregister
Remember the Uber self-driving car that killed a woman crossing the street? The AI had no clue about jaywalkers
The last thing we need right now is a rise in ignorant cyber-Judge Dredds
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Censorship is bad even when it’s done by private companies
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Nec Pluribus Impar
Censorship is bad even when it’s done by private companies
NOTE: This post is a slightly longer version of a piece I recently published on The Federalist. Their editor asked me to cut some passages because it was a bit long, but I figured that readers of my blog would…
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The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park
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Nytimes
The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park (Published 2019)
Frederick Law Olmsted’s tours of English parks shaped his vision of landscape design. You can see his inspiration in three dimensions by touring five of them.
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Symantec Is Now NortonLifeLock
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Nortonlifelock
Symantec Completes Sale of Enterprise Security Assets to Broadcom
Company Emerges as NortonLifeLock – Will Trade as NLOK on NASDAQ Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced the successful completion of the sale of its Enterprise Security Assets to Broadcom for $10.7 billion. “By unlocking value from Enterprise Security…
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Nuclear fusion is 'a question of when, not if'
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BBC News
Nuclear fusion is 'a question of when, not if'
Scientists say we are close to making fusion power a reality - but will it arrive in time to combat climate change?
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For Sale: Sat-Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity
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WSJ
For Sale: SAT-Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity
For 47 cents, the College Board will sell an individual’s information, allowing schools to market themselves more broadly. This encourages an increase in applications, which can lead to higher rejection rates.
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DNA database that found Golden State Killer is potential national security leak
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MIT Technology Review
The DNA database used to find the Golden State Killer is a national security leak waiting to happen
A private DNA ancestry database that’s been used by police to catch criminals is a security risk from which a nation-state could steal DNA data on a million Americans, according to security researchers. Security flaws in the service, called GEDmatch, not…
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