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Google halts political ads in Singapore as election looms: documents
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Reuters
Google halts political ads in Singapore as election looms: documents
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Google has stopped accepting political advertisements in Singapore months before a widely expected election, according to documents shared by a small political party which said it was angered by the decision that denies it voter reach.
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Sacred noscripture lives and evolves, is never fixed
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Literary Hub
Sacred Scripture Lives and Evolves, is Never Fixed
In about 1500 BCE, small bands of pastoralists left the Caucasian steppes and began to travel southwards through Afghanistan, settling finally in the Punjab in what is now Pakistan. This migration …
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An industrious mouse tidies up a retired electrician’s tool shed each night
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Peta Pixel
Trail Camera Catches Mouse Secretly Cleaning Man’s Shed Every Night
72-year-old Stephen Mckears was puzzled every morning when he would find hardware he left out on his workbench returned to their box. Using a wildlife trail camera, he discovered that a mouse was spending hours every night putting his tools back and tidying…
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Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surveillance network
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VICE
How Ring Went From ‘Shark Tank’ Reject to America’s Scariest Surveillance Company
Amazon's Ring started from humble roots as a smart doorbell company called "DoorBot." Now it's surveilling the suburbs and partnering with police.
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Carbonite to Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.42 billion
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A Reality Check on Quantum Computers
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WSJ
A Reality Check on Quantum Computers
Google’s recent breakthrough is just a first step on the long road to creating a useful next-generation processor.
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Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads
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Tron: Evolution – SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years later
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PCGamingWiki PCGW Community
Tron: Evolution SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years after release
Players trying to launch Tron: Evolution are now met with a message telling them that the serial key has expired. This applies to the retail version as well as the Steam version which is delisted from the store. Players who previously bought the game can…
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Knots and Quantum Theory (2011)
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Institute for Advanced Study
Knots and Quantum Theory
In the twentieth century, mathematicians developed a deep theory of knots, which was revolutionized by the discovery of the Jones polynomial—a way to calculate a number for every knot—by Vaughan F. R. Jones in the early 1980s. Below, Edward Witten, Charles…
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What’s Wrong with Bayes
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Show HN: The Program – my series launched on HN, now featured on Apple Podcasts
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Show HN:
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– I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC
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Agner Krarup Erlang
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Agner Krarup Erlang
Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer (1878–1929)
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Using Bee Stings to Treat Lyme Disease
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Texas Monthly
Can Bee Stings Treat Lyme Disease?
Treatments for chronic Lyme disease are controversial and expensive. As a last resort, some patients are pursuing this unproven and painful alternative. Treatments for Chronic Lyme disease are controversial and expensive. As a last resort, some patients are…
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Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD
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Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
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Amazon Web Services
Coming Soon – Graviton2-Powered General Purpose, Compute-Optimized, & Memory-Optimized EC2 Instances | Amazon Web Services
We launched the first generation (A1) of Arm-based, Graviton-powered EC2 instances at re:Invent 2018. Since that launch, thousands of our customers have used them to run many different types of scale-out workloads including containerized microservices, web…
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AGI Has Been Delayed
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Metagenomic Analysis of a Blood Stain from French Revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat
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bioRxiv
Metagenomic analysis of a blood stain from the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793)
The French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was assassinated in 1793 in his bathtub, where he was trying to find relief from the debilitating skin disease he was suffering from. At the time of his death, Marat was annotating newspapers, which got stained with…
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Breast Cancer Linked to Permanent Hair Dye and Chemical Hair Straighteners
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Newsweek
Breast Cancer Linked to Permanent Hair Dye and Chemical Hair Straighteners
A study based on the medical records of more than 45,000 women found a positive correlation between permanent hair dye and breast cancer—particularly among those who are black.
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Amazon RDS Proxy for AWS Lambda
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Amazon
Using Amazon RDS Proxy with AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services
Update – June 30, 2020: Amazon RDS Proxy support for MySQL and PostgreSQL is now generally available. Update – April 8, 2020: We have announced Postgres compatibility with the Amazon RDS Proxy. Version 10.11 and 11.5 are supported in the preview. The AWS…
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Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming
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Science
Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming
Study debunks idea that older models were inaccurate
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