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In Turkey, Keeping a Language of Whistles Alive
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NY Times
In Turkey, Keeping a Language of Whistles Alive (Published 2019)
Before cellphones, Turkish “bird language” allowed farmers to communicate across long distances in the Pontic Mountains.
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Mozilla and Opera remove Avast extensions from their add-on stores
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Almost Secure
Mozilla and Opera remove Avast extensions from their add-on stores, what will Google do?
The Avast extensions which were spying on their users are no longer available from Mozilla and Opera add-on stores. Google still has to take action.
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Hyperbolic Cellular Automata Simulator
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The Cannonball Record
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Road & Track
These Guys Just Drove an E63 AMG Across America in a Record 27 Hours 25 Minutes
The Cannonball Record has been broken again.
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About Windy (2018)
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Windy Community
About Windy
Hi, my name is Ivo, and I love the wind! I am an addicted kiter, helicopter and jet pilot who seeks the wind, waves, METARs and powder snow almost constantly. Since programming is my passion, I coded Windyty.com in 2014 as my pet project. The original ver...
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Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality
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The Economist
Economists are rethinking the numbers on inequality
An academic disagreement has big real-world implications | Briefing
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United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s
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Reuters
United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s
CHICAGO (Reuters) - United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL.O) announced on Tuesday an order for 50 Airbus SE (AIR.PA) A321XLR jets to fly between the U.S East Coast and Europe, becoming the latest U.S. airline to ink a deal for the European planemaker’s new passenger…
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Apple admits iPhone 11 Pro still collects location data even when told not to
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9to5Mac
Apple admits iPhone 11 Pro still collects location data even when told not to
A security researcher has found that the iPhone 11 Pro still intermittently collects location data even when the user has blocked it from doing so ...
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The Intoxicating History of Gin
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The New Yorker
The Intoxicating History of Gin
The current gin craze knows no bounds, but the British have been imbibing the stuff for hundreds of years, sometimes with disastrous results.
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Why people criticise Java: you can write great code but it'll be 90% boilerplate
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Google AMP Can Go to Hell
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Polemic Digital
Google AMP Can Go To Hell
Let’s talk about Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP for short.AMP is a Google pet project that purports to be “an open-source initiative aiming to make the web better for all”. While there is a lot of emphasis on the official AMP site about its open source…
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Never Use toString() for Behaviour
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java.christmas
Never use toString() for behaviour
Every object in Java has a toString() method which can be called to get a String-representation of any object at hand. If left unoverridden, it only yields a denoscription of its class and hash code, and not really useful for much.
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Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract
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Los Angeles Times
Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract
Open source developers, GitHub's power users, are joining the software platform's employees in calling for the company to cancel its contract with ICE. A boycott could be next.
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DoH: (Anti-)Competitive and Network Neutrality Aspects
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Powerdns
DoH: (Anti-)Competitive and Network Neutrality aspects | PowerDNS Blog
Moving to centralised DNS is bad for our privacy in 2019, and on that basis centralizing our DNS on a few large cloud providers seems like a bad idea.
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Using WebAssembly from .NET with Wasmtime
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Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Using WebAssembly from .NET with Wasmtime
How to use Wasmtime in a .NET application to load and execute WebAssembly code.
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Messy handwriting reveals mystery translator: Queen Elizabeth I
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the Guardian
Messy handwriting reveals mystery translator: Queen Elizabeth I
Researcher at Lambeth Palace follows ‘usefully messy’ fragment of Roman history to its royal source
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A7: Apple's custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry
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AppleInsider
A7: How Apple's custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry
After delivering just the first three generations of its custom ARM Application Processors between 2010 and 2012, Apple had already reached parity with market-leading mobile chip designers, even while breaking from the Cortex-A15 road map established by ARM…
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Genius used watermarks to catch Google stealing its content
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Aaron Sankin
@adrjeffries That story is, I think, probably the most important piece of tech reporting of the past few years because it shows with exacting clarity the consequences of Google's search dominance.
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'Shockingly High' Number of Injuries at Amazon's Staten Island Warehouse
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Gothamist
New Report Shows 'Shockingly High' Number Of Injuries At Amazon's Staten Island Warehouse
Between Thanksgiving and New Years in 2018, workers at the Staten Island facility suffered 63 recordable injuries, 17 of which were so severe that the employees never returned to work.
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A woman lied on her resume to land a $185,000-a-year job. Now shes going to jail
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lite.cnn.io
CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
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Apple’s Activation Lock Will Make It Difficult to Refurbish Macs
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iFixit
Apple’s Activation Lock Will Make It Very Difficult to Refurbish Macs | iFixit News
Every month, thousands of perfectly good iPhones are shredded instead of being put into the hands of people who could really use them. Why? Two words: Activation Lock. And Macs are its next victim.
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