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What are the mysterious light sources on light pollution maps?
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Altair Space
Mysterious Light Sources
I got my first telescope in 2017, in time for the Great American Eclipse. I started paying attention to the concept of light pollution, including finding detailed maps of what places had high or lo…
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The Junk Mail Men: Selling Your Data for over a Century (2019)
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The Saturday Evening Post
The "Junk Mail" Men: Selling Your Data for over a Century | The Saturday Evening Post
The mailing list brokers of the mid-century spawned political junk mail and today’s Big Brother digital marketing.
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Clickhouse Local
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Farming gave us salmonella, ancient DNA suggests
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Science | AAAS
Farming gave us salmonella, ancient DNA suggests
But pigs didn’t give humans typhoid
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SETI Home Search for Alien Life Project Shuts Down After 21 Years
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BleepingComputer
SETI@home Search for Alien Life Project Shuts Down After 21 Years
SETI@home has announced that they will no longer be distributing new work to clients starting on March 31st as they have enough data and want to focus on completing their back-end analysis of the data.
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Coronavirus Lockdown [in Wuhan] Is a 'Living Hell'
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Mastercard investing in technology to identify commuters by gait, heartbeat
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MarketWatch
Mastercard is pioneering new payment technology that identifies commuters by the way they walk
Mastercard is working with transport firms to develop a new gait technology system. CCTV cameras would identify passengers approaching transport barriers and...
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New Features in Java 14
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Oracle
Java 14 Arrives with a Host of New Features
Java 14 contains more new features than the previous two releases—most of them aimed at easing coding.
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Procore IPO: S-1 Breakdown
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Atrium shuts down, laying off 100
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TechCrunch
$75M legal startup Atrium shuts down, lays off 100
Justin Kan's hybrid legal software and law firm startup Atrium is shutting down today after failing to figure out how to deliver better efficiency than a
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Introduction to SerenityOS Programming
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awesomekling.github.io
Introduction to SerenityOS GUI programming
This post will give you a quick intro to the basics of GUI programming for SerenityOS.
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How did software get so reliable without proof?
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Surfing Complexity
How did software get so reliable without proof?
In 1996, the Turing-award-winning computer scientist C.A.R. Hoare wrote a paper with the noscript How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? In this paper, Hoare grapples with the observation tha…
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United States National Radio Quiet Zone
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For Seoul’s poor, class strife in ‘Parasite’ is daily reality
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NY Times
For Seoul’s Poor, Class Strife in ‘Parasite’ Is Daily Reality
Like the family in the Oscar-winning film, many in Seoul’s so-called dirt-spoon class dwell in basements far below the rich. “Those living up there must look down on people like me like pigs.”
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That 1970s Feeling
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Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Traffic Accident Risk
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An Update from Robinhood’s Founders
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Under the Hood
An Update from Robinhood’s Founders — Under the Hood
When it comes to your money, we know how important it is for you to have answers. The outages you have experienced over the last two days are not acceptable and we want to share an update on the current situation. Our team has spent the last two days evaluating…
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Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (2014) [pdf]
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Relating natural language aptitude to differences in learning programming
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Nature
Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages
Scientific Reports - Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages
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Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing
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meet.jit.si
Jitsi Meet
Join a WebRTC video conference powered by the Jitsi Videobridge
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Honeywell says it will soon launch the world’s most powerful quantum computer
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TechCrunch
Honeywell says it will soon launch the world’s most powerful quantum computer
“The best-kept secret in quantum computing.” That’s what Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) CEO Ilyas Khan called Honeywell‘s efforts in building the world’s most powerful quantum computer. In a race where most of the major players are vying for attention…
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