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Windows 10 live tiles reportedly getting killed by Microsoft
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LaptopMag
RIP: Windows 10 live tiles reportedly getting killed by Microsoft
Windows 10 Live Tiles are going the way of Windows Phone
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Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain
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Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain
The launch of a new open access platform ushers in a new era of accessibility for the Institution
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Say It Is So: Baseball’s Disgrace
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The New York Review of Books
Shoeless Joe Jackson, The Astros and Baseball’s Scandals | Daily
The case for electing "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Pete Rose to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Go 1.14 is Released
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blog.golang.org
Go 1.14 is released - The Go Blog
Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.
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Sarah Connor, in hiding before the war
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Sarah Connor, in hiding before the war
I thought about posting this piece about a proposed solution for the homeless in Grand Central Terminal to r/homeless, but I don't know tha...
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Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
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GitHub - liamg/shox:
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A customisable, universally compatible terminal status bar
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A customisable, universally compatible terminal status bar - liamg/shox
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Walmart Gets Into Health Care
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Bloomberg
Checkup for $30, Teeth Cleaning $25: Walmart Gets Into Health Care
The retail giant wants to grab a share of the $3.6 trillion in health spending by leveraging its 150 million weekly shoppers.
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My First AWS “Free Tier” Hosting Bill Was $990
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AndrewRay.me
My First AWS "Free Tier" hosting bill was $900
TL;DR I built my novel shader graph editor, ShaderFrog, on AWS and chose the "wrong" configuration. Learn from my easily avoidable ignorance and pain and Amazon's dark UI patterns. Trying out AWS When preparing to launch ShaderFrog I looked for cloud server…
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Waymo’s Hiring Binge
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The Information
Inside Waymo’s Hiring Binge
Alphabet’s Waymo still hasn’t perfected a self-driving car. So it is throwing more money at the problem.Waymo nearly doubled its headcount to 1,500 employees, known as “Waymonauts,” from 800 about a year ago, said a person with knowledge of the figure. Much…
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Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
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Disney CEO Bob Iger immediately steps down from CEO position
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Why and how to search two years back in your Elastic search logs [pdf]
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Dictionary union (PEP 584) is merged
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GitHub
bpo-36144: Dictionary Union (PEP 584) by brandtbucher · Pull Request #12088 · python/cpython
https://bugs.python.org/issue36144
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uBlock Origin 1.25.0 uncloaks CNAME-masked network requests in Firefox
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Release 1.25.0 · gorhill/uBlock
Commits to master since this release
To install the stable build:
Chromium: Install from the Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm....
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FastMRI leverages adversarial training to remove image artifacts
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Facebook
FastMRI leverages adversarial learning to remove image artifacts
As part of the fastMRI initiative, Facebook AI and NYU Langone Health researchers have used a technique known as an orientation adversary to remove artifacts from AI-accelerated scans. This removes a major obstacle blocking deep learning use in MRIs.
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Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
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WSJ
Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
The decision to cut jobs is the latest move in a yearlong effort to shake up the cloud unit and put greater focus on delivering growth to parent Alphabet.
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San Francisco declares state of emergency to prepare for coronavirus
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Business Insider
San Francisco's mayor has declared a state of emergency as the coronavirus continues to spread
Mayor London Breed said the city was "taking the necessary steps to protect San Franciscans from harm."
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Show HN: Helium – Lighter web automation based on Selenium
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GitHub - mherrmann/helium: Lighter web automation with Python
Lighter web automation with Python. Contribute to mherrmann/helium development by creating an account on GitHub.
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“Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
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Alexey Guzey
Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual …
Note: I link to a bunch of paywalled studies in this essay. Please do not use sci-hub to access them for free and do not use this trick (a) to easily redirect papers to sci-hub.
For the clearest example of deliberate data manipulation, see how Walker edits…
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Recovering Fossil Data on IBM 8” Floppies [video]
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YouTube
Fossil Data Part 2: 8-Inch IBM Floppy Data Recovery
We help intrepid paleontologists to retrieve precious fossil data fossilized on 8-inch IBM floppies.
Our sponsor for PCBs: https://www.pcbway.com
Support the team on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/curiousmarc
Buy shirts on Teespring: https://teesprin…
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“If you leave, we'll smash all your digital purchases into oblivion.”
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reddit
"Are you sure you really wanna leave? If you do, we smash all your...
I closed a Google account a few days ago and I couldn't help but laugh at the following. Before you go, it warns you that you will lose any...
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