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EA's Tetris games will no longer be playable on iPhones and iPads
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Gizmodo
You Soon Won't Be Able to Play EA's Official Tetris Game On Your iPhone
In a stark reminder that you rarely actually own anything you buy digitally, Electronic Arts’ iOS Tetris games will not only be disappearing from the App Store on April 21, but the games themselves will no longer be playable on iPhones and iPads—even if you…
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Coding Stories: Me vs. the VNC Guy
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Martinrue
Coding Stories: Me vs. The VNC Guy
The story of how I finally got revenge on The VNC Guy back in my college days.
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Setting the Record Straight: PinePhone Misconceptions
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PINE64
Setting the Record Straight: PinePhone Misconceptions
I take no pleasure in writing this blog post. In fact, even as I am writing these words I am internally torn on whether this is the right approach to addressing the problem on hand. Whether I’ve chosen the right approach remains to be seen, but regardless…
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The Most Complete Brain Map Ever Is Here: A Fly's 'Connectome'
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Wired
The Most Complete Brain Map Ever Is Here: A Fly's 'Connectome'
It took 12 years and at least $40 million to chart a region about 250 micrometers across—about the thickness of two strands of hair.
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Show HN: Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to your static site
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Userbase
The easiest way to add user accounts & persistence to your static site.
Create secure and private web apps using only static JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
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Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism
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kottke.org
Jim Lehrer's Rules of Journalism
The long-time host of PBS NewsHour Jim Lehrer died this week at the age of 85. In this age of news as entertainment and opinion as news, Lehrer seems like one of the last of a breed of journalist who took seriously the i
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The Economics of AI Today
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The Gradient
The Economics of AI Today
Every day we hear claims that Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are about to transform the economy, creating mass unemployment and vast monopolies. But what do professional economists think about this?
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A Directory of High Quality, Real-Time Event Sources
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GitHub
GitHub - PipedreamHQ/pipedream: Connect APIs, remarkably fast. Free for developers.
Connect APIs, remarkably fast. Free for developers. - PipedreamHQ/pipedream
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Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS
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Troy Hunt
Here's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS
It was Jan last year that I suggested HTTPS adoption had passed the "tipping point", that is, it had passed the moment of critical mass and as I said at the time, "will very shortly become the norm". Since that time, the percentage of web pages loaded over…
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An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience
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Nautilus
An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience
On a chilly evening last fall, I stared into nothingness out of the floor-to-ceiling windows in my office on the outskirts of Harvard’s…
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Why
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Kev Quirk
Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News - Kev Quirk
Two of the main sites I use for news are Lobste.rs and Hacker News. Lobste.rs is far smaller than Hacker News, but I much prefer it. Here's why...
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Thousands of Stores Will Soon Use Facial Recognition Without Your Consent
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BuzzFeed.News
Thousands Of Stores Will Soon Use Facial Recognition, And They Won't Need Your Consent
Facial recognition cameras are scanning faces at hundreds of retail stores to catch shoplifters before they steal. But everyday shoppers are often unaware that their faces are being scanned.
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In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis
Copyright rules are made with the needs of the entertainment industry in mind, designed to provide the legal framework for creators, investors, distributors, production houses, and other parts of the
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Today, the Trident Era Ends
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schepp.dev
Today, the Trident Era Ends
About the rise and fall of Microsoft's take on the web.
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New coronavirus can spread between humans–but it started in a wildlife market
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Science
New coronavirus can spread between humans—but it started in a wildlife market
With confirmed cases in multiple countries, health officials are looking to similar outbreaks from the past and seeing a common thread.
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Using floating-point numbers for money
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Goldman to Refuse IPOs If All Directors Are White, Straight Men
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Bloomberg.com
Goldman to Refuse IPOs If All Directors Are White, Straight Men
The bank is the latest firm to eschew a lack of diversity in corporate governance.
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Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste
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Rolling Stone
America’s Radioactive Secret
Investigation shows oil-and-gas wells' toxic waste could be making workers sick and contaminating communities across America.
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Coronavirus Infections–More Than Just the Common Cold
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Jamanetwork
Coronavirus Infections—More Than Just the Common Cold
In this Viewpoint Anthony Fauci and colleagues review the emergence of pathogenic human coronaviruses (SARS-Cov and MERS-CoV) as background for discussing a rapidly spreading novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in 2019 in China and the public health…
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5/3nm Wars Begin
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Semiconductor Engineering
5/3nm Wars Begin
New transistors structures are on the horizon with new tools and processes, but there are lots of problems, too.
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AWS Graviton2
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