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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
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
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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Show HN: Generative art with ant colony optimization algorithms
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Hyundai and Uber Unveil Autonomous Pods, EVTOL Aircraft, & Hub Ecosystem at CES
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CleanTechnica
Hyundai & Uber Elevate Unveil Autonomous Pods, eVTOL Aircraft, & Hub Ecosystem At CES
Hyundai Motor Company and Uber Elevate showed us a fairly complete urban air mobility (UAM) electric vertical takeoff & landing (eVTOL) concept vehicle, autonomous pods, and a hub ecosystem that fits with Uber Elevate’s air taxi model at the Consumer Electronics…
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Microsoft Project Verona GitHub Repo
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GitHub
GitHub - microsoft/verona: Research programming language for concurrent ownership
Research programming language for concurrent ownership - microsoft/verona
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U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years
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Reuters
U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job openings recorded their biggest drop in more than four years in November, while hiring increased moderately, suggesting a loss of momentum in the labor market at the tail end of 2019.
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Why we’re writing machine learning infrastructure in Go, not Python
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Medium
Why we’re writing machine learning infrastructure in Go, not Python
Production machine learning is about more than just algorithms
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Break up big tech's monopoly
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Reuters
Break up big tech's 'monopoly', smaller rivals tell Congress hearing
BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) - In April 2019, Tile.com, which helps users find lost or misplaced items, suddenly found itself competing with Apple Inc, after years of enjoying a mutually beneficial relationship with the iPhone maker.
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Computational Power Found in the Arms of Neurons
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Quanta Magazine
Hidden Computational Power Found in the Arms of Neurons
The dendritic arms of some human neurons can perform logic operations that once seemed to require whole neural networks.
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DigitalOcean is laying off staff
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TechCrunch
DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected
After appointing a new CEO and CFO last summer, cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean is embarking on a wider reorganisation: the startup has announced a round of layoffs, with potentially between 30 and 50 people affected.
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Review of the Pinebook Pro – A $200 ARM Powered Laptop
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Jeremymorgan
Trying out the Pinebook Pro - a $200 ARM Laptop
The Pinebook Pro is a $200 laptop with ARM processors that promises a lot. Does it deliver?
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