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FDA grants Roche coronavirus test emergency green light within 24 hours
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Fierce Biotech
FDA grants Roche coronavirus test emergency green light within 24 hours
Roche received a green light from the FDA for emergency use of its high-volume coronavirus diagnostic, the first commercially developed test to do so. | Roche received a green light from the FDA for emergency use of its high-volume coronavirus diagnostic…
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Git Partial Clone lets you fetch only the large file you need
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Gitlab
How Git Partial Clone lets you fetch only the large file you need
Work faster with this experimental Partial Clone feature for huge Git repositories, saving you time, bandwidth, and storage, one large file at a time.
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He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them
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Nytimes
He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them (Published 2020)
Amazon cracked down on coronavirus price gouging. Now, while the rest of the world searches, some sellers are holding stockpiles of sanitizer and masks.
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Koenigsegg’s 2.0-Liter No-Camshaft Engine Makes 600 Horsepower
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Road & Track
How Koenigsegg’s 2.0-Liter No-Camshaft Engine Makes 600 Horsepower
The "Tiny Friendly Giant" is a game-changer for internal combustion. Christian von Koenigsegg explains this camless wonder.
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Ask HN: Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?
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Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New York City
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Grist
Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New York City
If there’s a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that there’s probably never been a better time to ride a bike in the Big Apple.
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The next outbreak? we’re not ready (2015) [video]
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YouTube
The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates | TED
In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers -- plus, frankly, thanks to some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now's the time, Bill Gates suggests…
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Pence says European travel ban will extend to U.K. and Ireland
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Axios
Pence says European travel ban will extend to U.K. and Ireland
The U.K. is currently reporting more new cases than the U.S.
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Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)
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Terence Eden’s Blog
Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters
Unicode contains a range of symbols which don't get much use. For example, there are separate symbols for TradeMark -
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, Service Mark - ℠, and Prenoscriptions - ℞. Nestling among the "Letterlike Symbols" are two curious entries. Both of these are single characters:…
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Show HN: Pisa – Probably the Fastest Full Text Search Engine Written in C++
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GitHub
GitHub - pisa-engine/pisa: PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia. Contribute to pisa-engine/pisa development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?
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Creating a Retail Demo for Apple
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Swiftjective-C
Creating a Retail Demo for Apple
Spend Stack was selected by Apple to be included as a retail demo on iPhones & iPads across the globe. Here's what the process was like.
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Not all young people are ‘digital natives’
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The Conversation
Not all young people are ‘digital natives’ – inequality hugely limits experiences of technology
We found that a lack of critical skills about the online environment matched up with lower levels of education and employment.
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An Introduction to Modern CMake
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How Bad Is the Coronavirus? Let’s Run the Numbers
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BloombergQuint
How Bad Is the Coronavirus? Let’s Run the Numbers
People who get Covid-19 are much less likely to die than those infected with Ebola, SARS and MERS.
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Hard work and specialising early is not always a recipe for success
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The Correspondent
Why hard work and specialising early is not a recipe for success
Which is better: a generalist or a specialist? Conventional wisdom says the earlier you specialise, the greater your chances of success. But people who take their time and broaden their horizons make smarter career choices. In fact, they tend to be better…
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Bankers Go Home, Tellers Stay: Virus Exposes Office Inequalities
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Bloomberg
Bankers Go Home, Tellers Stay: Virus Exposes Office Inequalities
JPMorgan asked many of its roughly 37,000 employees in the New York metro area this week to work from home in staggered shifts to stem the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Bank tellers, who account for about half its New York workforce, weren’t included.
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Czech Passive Radar Detecting B-2 at 150 miles
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Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online
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kosmi.io
Kosmi - Online Hangouts Made Easy
Watch videos together, play games, or simply chat with friends or strangers all from within your browser!
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Automatic Chess Board Design
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Diabetes in mice cured rapidly using human stem cell strategy
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Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Diabetes in mice cured rapidly using human stem cell strategy | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
New technique efficiently converts human stem cells into insulin-producing cells
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