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US government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware
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Malwarebytes
United States government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware
A US-funded government assistance program is selling budget-friendly mobile phones that come pre-installed with unremovable malicious apps.
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Ukrainian plane was 'unintentionally' shot down, Iran state TV says
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CBC
Ukrainian plane was 'unintentionally' shot down, Iran says | CBC News
Iran announced Saturday that its military "unintentionally" shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations that it was responsible.
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Some aspects of memory get better as we age
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NY Times
Opinion | Everyone Knows Memory Fails as You Age. But Everyone Is Wrong. (Published 2020)
Even 20-year-olds forget the simplest things.
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Great Microprocessors of the Past
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Fans and Haters
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Why should bottlepy stick to a file?
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OpenWrt 19.07.0 Release Notes
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Health and Wealth in the Roman Empire (2019)
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Sciencedirect
Health and wealth in the Roman Empire
Ancient Rome was the largest and most populous empire of its time, and the largest pre-industrial state in European history. Recent though not univers…
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T1: A Modern Programming Language for Constrained Environments
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The medications that change who we are
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Bbc
The medications that change who we are
They’ve been linked to road rage, pathological gambling, and complicated acts of fraud. It turns out many ordinary medications don’t just affect our bodies – they affect our brains.
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A billion medical images are exposed online, as doctors ignore warnings
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TechCrunch
A billion medical images are exposed online, as doctors ignore warnings
Despite warnings from security researchers, the number of exposed images has risen.
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John Carmack and Amazon's $30 1TB thumb drives
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Twitter
John Carmack
The $30 thumb drives were a fraud. They show up as 1TB, but lsusb reports it as a 4GB USB 2 device. I should have bought a $45 1TB hard drive. Amusingly, the quick test program I wrote was reporting all-good, because each 1GB file written was still in cache…
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A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song
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Medium
The Man Who’s Spending $1 Billion to Own Every Pop Song
Music mogul Merck Mercuriadis raised hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the rights to hits by Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars. Is he…
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Choosing Monday for a surgery increases your chance of success 2 times
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The BMJ
Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for elective surgery: retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics
Objectives To assess the association between mortality and the day of elective surgical procedure.
Design Retrospective analysis of national hospital administrative data.
Setting All acute and specialist English hospitals carrying out elective surgery over…
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Unprecedented Teamwork Repairs Collapsed Freeway in Record Time (2007)
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Tradeline, Inc.
Unprecedented Teamwork Repairs Collapsed Freeway in Record Time
The images were horrifying. A gasoline tanker truck exploding into a fireball. A freeway connector ramp collapsing into a cloud of flames and hot cinders. More than 160 feet of roadway completely missing from the upper deck. Twisted, fire-blackened girders…
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How to make roguelike games in Rust
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Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
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Scientists Use Recycled Sewage Water to Grow 500-Acre Forest in the Desert
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Good News Network
Scientists Use Recycled Sewage Water to Grow 500-Acre Forest in the Middle of Egyptian Desert
Researchers have been rerouting human wastewater from a city to grow trees in Egypt—and it could lead to more than 36 forest sanctuaries in the desert.
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Amazon takes a swipe at PayPal’s $4B acquisition
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Ars Technica
Amazon takes a swipe at PayPal’s $4 billion acquisition
Holiday shoppers warned that Honey, a popular browser extension, was a “security risk.”
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Zeta: Functional Neural Networks in Ocaml
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GitHub
liaopeiyuan/zeta
functional neural networks in ocaml. Contribute to liaopeiyuan/zeta development by creating an account on GitHub.
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