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The secretive government agency planting 'cyanide bombs' across the US
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the Guardian
The secretive government agency planting 'cyanide bombs' across the US
Wildlife Services kills thousands of animals at ranchers and farmers’ behest. But it operates with little oversight – and critics describe it as out of control
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Permacomputing
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Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters
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BuzzFeed News
Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea A Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location
Data company Mobilewalla used cellphone information to estimate the demographics of protesters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says it’s “shady” and concerning.
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Earning $800 / Month with Spotify
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Steve Benjamins
Earning $800 / Month With Spotify — Steve Benjamins
I'm making over $800 per month with my music— almost exclusively through Spotify. This is up from $400 per month last year. I don't tour, I don't sell merch and I'm not on a major label. I'm just a small indie artist making music in my evenings— and…
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Trust, Slavery and the African School of Economics
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The Economist
Trust, slavery and the African School of Economics
Leonard Wantchekon is trying to build a world-class university in Benin
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Working on iPad
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Vercel on Notion
Working on iPad
For the past weeks, I've been working exclusively from an iPad Pro 11
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What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (2015)
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Evan S. Porter
How to Write for The Onion & Lessons Learned
I wrote for The Onion News Network for exactly four weeks. Here's what I learned.
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Prisma Raises $12M Series A to Build the Next Generation of Database Tools
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“Adobe Flash is no longer supported in Safari.”
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Apple Developer Documentation
Safari Technology Preview Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
Learn about changes for Safari Technology Preview releases and Web Inspector for macOS.
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Apple, Big Sur, and the Rise of Neumorphism
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Input
Apple, Big Sur, and the rise of Neumorphism
Like it or not, the user interfaces of the near future are going to be much lusher, and often cringe-inducing.
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SARS-CoV-2 detected in Barcelona sewage water sample from March 2019
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medRxiv
Sentinel surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater anticipates the occurrence of COVID-19 cases
SARS-CoV-2 was detected in Barcelona sewage long before the declaration of the first COVID-19 case, indicating that the infection was present in the population before the first imported case was reported. Sentinel surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater…
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New York Times developers squabble over decision to doxx Scott Alexander
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The Daily Beast
The Latest Squabble Inside The New York Times
Yet another internal beef has emerged at the paper of record—this time over the alleged “doxxing” of the psychiatrist behind popular blog Slate Star Codex.
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Why Climate Change Won't Be Stopped
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Show HN: HiFiC – Generative Image Compression (demo and paper)
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hific.github.io
HiFiC - High-Fidelity Generative Image Compression
We combine Generative Adversarial Networks with learned compression to obtain a state-of-the-art generative lossy compression system.
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Reducing search indexing latency to one second
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Twitter
Reducing search indexing latency to one second
The challenges the Search Infrastructure team at Twitter went through in order to reduce the search indexing latency to one second.
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Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea a Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location
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BuzzFeed News
Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea A Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location
Data company Mobilewalla used cellphone information to estimate the demographics of protesters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says it’s “shady” and concerning.
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Show HN: LCC – Open-Source Spatial Audio from Stereo Speakers
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GitHub
GitHub - MeteorStudioASU/lcc: LCC (Localization Cue Correction) is a solution for spatialized audio through stereo speakers. LCC…
LCC (Localization Cue Correction) is a solution for spatialized audio through stereo speakers. LCC is a lightweight implementation of crosstalk cancellation so your left ear hears the left channel ...
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California city bans predictive policing in U.S. first – Reuters
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Reuters
California city bans predictive policing in U.S. first
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the…
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Even If You’re Asymptomatic, the Coronavirus Can Do Damage
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Medium
Even If You’re Asymptomatic, the Coronavirus Can Do Damage
New research on asymptomatic people reveals underlying effects
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The value of Tor and anonymous contributions to Wikipedia
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blog.torproject.org
The value of Tor and anonymous contributions to Wikipedia | Tor Project
According to a recently published research paper co-authored by researchers from Drexel, NYU, and the University of Washington, Tor users make high-quality contributions to Wikipedia. And, when they are blocked, as doctoral candidate Chau Tran, the lead author…
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The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers
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Chris Hacken
The War on Upstart Fiber Optic Internet Providers
As someone who grew up throughout the 90's and 00's, some of my fondest memories stem from progressive advancements in internet and computing technologies. Upgrading from Dial-Up internet to DSL was a grand event in our house. I remember my brother and…
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