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Bill Gates has stepped down from Microsoft's board
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PR Newswire
Microsoft announces change to its board of directors
/PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that Co-Founder and Technology Advisor Bill Gates stepped down from the company's Board of Directors to...
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Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic
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Thurrott.com
Microsoft Plots the End of Visual Basic
Microsoft said this week that it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5.0 but will no longer add new features or evolve the language.
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South Korea's drive-through testing for coronavirus
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Sourcegraph raised a $23M Series B
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Medium
Why We Invested in Sourcegraph
Today Craft Ventures is excited to announce that we are leading the $23 million Series B in Sourcegraph and I will be joining the board…
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The first US layoffs from the coronavirus are here
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Popular iPhone and iPad Apps Snooping on the Pasteboard
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Mysk Blog – In-Depth Cybersecurity & Mobile App Privacy Research
Popular iPhone and iPad Apps Snooping on the Pasteboard
This article provides an investigation of some popular apps that frequently access the pasteboard without user consent. These apps range from popular games and social networking apps, to news apps of major news organizations. We found that many apps quietly…
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PETSCII Revealed
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Now Go Bang! — mass:werk / Blog
(Now Go Bang!) PETSCII Revealed
A closer look at the logic behind Commodore ASCII, AKA PETSCII, and the PET 2001.
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Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US
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TheHill
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1 million face masks to US
Jack Ma, the billionaire co-founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, announced Friday that he plans to donate 500,000 coronavirus test kits to the U.S. as well as 1 million face masks.
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Comcast and T-Mobile upgrade everyone to unlimited data for next 60 days
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Ars Technica
Comcast and T-Mobile upgrade everyone to unlimited data for next 60 days
Comcast also opens Wi-Fi hotspots to all and T-Mobile boosts mobile-hotspot data.
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WASP II flying platform
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Oppositelock
WASP II - The Coolest Flying Platform Ever
Anyone remotely familiar with internet hype knows that flying cars and jet packs are “Just around the corner!” Interestingly, much of the cool technology in this field came and went decades ago. Like the WASP II flying platform.
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President Trump says that he’s waiving interest on federal student loans
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Forbes
Trump: I’m Waiving Interest On Student Loans
Here's some good news.
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AI can detect coronavirus from CT scans in twenty seconds
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LinkedIn
AI can detect Corona virus from CT scans in just 20 seconds
Chinese tech company Alibaba, says its AI can detect Corona virus from CT scans in just 20 seconds. It takes doctors around 20 mins to do the same.
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MakerDAO gets stress tested as ETH price plummets
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messari.io
MakerDAO gets stress tested as ETH price plummets
In the midst of extreme market-wide turmoil, MakerDAO is facing one of its biggest challenges to date. The main form of collateral in the system, Ether, has dropped over 30% in a 24-hour timeframe marking one of the worst days in its short history. This has…
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A Checklist for Evaluating New Technology
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OpenTable Data Center
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Facebook is evolving Erlang into a modern statically typed programming language
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Facebook Careers
Software Engineer - WhatsApp Erlang Team
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - join us.
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Hydroxychloroquine found to be more potent than chloroquine to inhibit SARSCoV2
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OUP Academic
In Vitro Antiviral Activity and Projection of Optimized Dosing Design of Hydroxychloroquine for the Treatment of Severe Acute Respiratory…
Hydroxychloroquine was found to be more potent than chloroquine at inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 in vitro. Hydroxychloroquine sulfate 400 mg given twice daily for 1 day
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Show HN: Ask recurring questions and get aggregated answers in your email
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SVT-AV1: open-source AV1 encoder and decoder
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Medium
SVT-AV1: open-source AV1 encoder and decoder
by Andrey Norkin, Joel Sole, Mariana Afonso, Kyle Swanson, Agata Opalach, Anush Moorthy, Anne Aaron
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A Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming
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Nautilus
The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming
Dennis Carroll doesn’t mean to sound callous when he says the coronavirus outbreak was predictable. And he doesn’t. He sounds…
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Understanding SARS-CoV-2 and the drugs that might lessen its power
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The Economist
Understanding SARS-CoV-2 and the drugs that might lessen its power
Modest improvements in treatment could make a big difference
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