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EU mulls five-year ban on facial recognition tech in public areas
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Reuters
EU mulls five-year ban on facial recognition tech in public areas
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is considering banning facial recognition technology in public areas for up to five years, to give it time to work out how to prevent abuses, according to proposals seen by Reuters.
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Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable
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BBC News
Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable
European Parliament members want all tech giants to adopt a single universal charging method.
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Animation shows the temperature change by country from year 1880 to 2019
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Twitter
Globally year 2019 was the second warmest on record
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(2016 is the warmest so far). This animation shows the temperature change by country from year 1880 to 2019. #climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #dataviz #climateviz
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A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly
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Future Releases
A brand new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly
We tested Firefox Preview, the new Firefox experience for Android, together with our users for 6 months. Now it's coming to Firefox for Android Nightly.
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Upcoming changes to our CDN for
GitLab.com
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GitLab
Why GitLab.com is changing its CDN provider to Cloudflare March 28
Get the scoop on our plan to change GitLab.com to Cloudflare.
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Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels quickly with just SQL
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GitHub
GitHub - forbesmyester/esqlate: Build minimum viable admin panels quickly with just SQL
Build minimum viable admin panels quickly with just SQL - forbesmyester/esqlate
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Berkeley's $5M Glitch
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Insidehighered
Arbitrator says UC Berkeley owes its computer science TAs $5 million
Arbitrator says UC Berkeley owes its computer science TAs, including many undergraduates, some $5 million in missed pay and benefits.
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Ask HN: I need advice on my first B2B SaaS startup
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Toronto is surveillance capitalism’s new frontier
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Toronto Life
Toronto is surveillance capitalism’s new frontier
The city of Toronto now sits in the crosshairs of a uniquely 21st-century economic model that I call surveillance capitalism. Invented at Google two
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Bacteria and sand engineered into living concrete
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EurekAlert!
Bacteria and sand engineered into living concrete
Cement and concrete haven't changed much as technology in over a hundred years, but researchers in Colorado are revolutionizing building materials by literally bringing them to life. The method developed, presented Jan. 15 in the journal Matter, combines…
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Incident: Ethiopian B737 at Dire Dawa on Jan 9th, swarm of grasshoppers
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Avherald
Incident: Ethiopian B737 at Dire Dawa on Jan 9th 2020, swarm of grasshoppers
Aviation Herald - News, Incidents and Accidents in Aviation
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The Reality of Reuse (2018)
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Bennorthrop
The Reality of Reuse - Ben Northrop
Overly optimistic expectation for the benefits and ease of reuse is one of the most pervasive and pernicious traps in software development
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Actix-web maintainer quits open source
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GitHub - actix/actix-web: Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.
Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust. - actix/actix-web
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Professors create free research-backed games to train your brain
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NYU
Professors Create Free Research-Backed Games to Train Your Brain
NYU Steinhardt Professor Jan L. Plass and his colleagues have created three digital games to help children and adults improve their cognitive skills.
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Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund
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GreenBiz
Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund
Bold new commitment will see the tech giant charge an internal carbon fee not just on emissions from its direct operations, but on those of its supply chain.
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RISC-V Software Ecosystem Overview
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GitHub - riscvarchive/riscv-software-list: The RISC-V software tools list, as seen on riscv.org
The RISC-V software tools list, as seen on riscv.org - GitHub - riscvarchive/riscv-software-list: The RISC-V software tools list, as seen on riscv.org
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Quindar Tones: the beeps heard in recordings of astronauts in space
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Jalopnik
There's An Actual Name And Reason For Those Beeps You Hear In Recordings Of Astronauts In Space
The American space program, I think we’d all agree, has its own very particular set of audiovisual signatures that immediately evoke all kinds of images and feelings. There’s a certain NASA look to the objects of space travel—that gold foil stuff, lightweight…
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Firefighters in Australia Save World's Only Groves of Prehistoric Wollemi Pines
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Caltrain Vibration and Volatility Analysis
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A Sad Day for Rust
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Georgia election server showed signs of tampering, expert says
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NBC News
Georgia election server showed signs of tampering, expert says
The server was left exposed to the open internet for at least six months, a problem the same expert discovered in August 2016.
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