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Google requiring Android apps to use its billing system next year
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9to5Google
Google requiring Android apps on the Play Store to use its IAP billing system next year
As rumored last week, Google today announced that it will require all Android apps downloaded from the Play Store to use its in-app billing system...
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Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
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Spread Privacy
As Predicted, Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
Google's search preference menu auction, as we predicted, has resulted in DuckDuckGo being eliminated, making it harder for people to get simple privacy.
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Type Systems Explained with Examples
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Show HN: A simple way to set goals you actually follow
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Facebook ads targeted black audiences for voting “deterrence”
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Channel 4 News
Revealed: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016
3.5 million Black Americans were profiled and categorised as ‘Deterrence’ by Trump campaign – voters they wanted to stay home on election day
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Using lasers to reduce drag in hypersonic weapons
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The War Zone
Blasting The Air In Front Of Hypersonic Vehicles With Lasers Could Unlock Unprecedented Speeds
For decades, the DoD has been researching a radical drag reduction technique that involves sheathing a vehicle in directed energy-induced plasma.
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Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary
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zerodha.tech
Alar: The making of an open source dictionary - Zerodha Tech Blog
The story of a massive Kannada dictionary created by V. Krishna single handedly over four decades, and its accidental discovery and open sourcing at an unlikely place, a stock brokerage.
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McAfee S-1
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A Field Guide to Genetic Programming (2008) [pdf]
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Durability: NVMe Disks
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US college enrollments are falling (except for graduate degrees)
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Quartz
College enrollments are falling in the US—except for graduate degrees
The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting college enrollments, except for graduate degrees
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Amtrak’s Empire Builder: The Train That Deserves Better
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Streets.mn
Amtrak’s Empire Builder: The Train that Deserves Better
Amtrak's Empire Builder, the only intercity rail service in Minnesota, will be reduced from daily to tri-weekly service beginning in October due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. I decided to take it one more time before the cuts went into effect,…
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Shmig: Database migration tool written in bash
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GitHub
GitHub - mbucc/shmig: Database migration tool written in BASH.
Database migration tool written in BASH. Contribute to mbucc/shmig development by creating an account on GitHub.
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“I monitor my staff with software that takes screenshots”
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BBC News
'I monitor my staff with software that takes screenshots'
Many have struggled to get to grips with working from home, but would surveillance technology help?
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Wireflow – an open-source flowchart real-time collaboration tool
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GitHub
GitHub - vanila-io/wireflow: Wireflow - user flow chart real-time collaborative tool
Wireflow - user flow chart real-time collaborative tool - vanila-io/wireflow
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OpenBSD on the Desktop (Part I)
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Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS
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underjord.io
Underjord | Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS
So in my post Is this evil? I covered a way of tracking users with CSS. While thinking about those weird ways of using the web I also started thinking about pushing live data to clients without JS. Or at least maintaining a connection. So WebSockets…
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In Defense of XML
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A Java geek
In defense of XML
When I started my career, XML was ubiquitous. The meta-information in a Java JAR file - the manifest - follows a proprietary format. But Java EE designers built it from the ground up on XML: meta-information of all artifacts is in XML format e.g. web.xml…
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Grep-3.5 Released
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savannah.gnu.org
grep - News: grep-3.5 released [stable] [Savannah]
Savannah is a central point for development, distribution
and maintenance of free software, both GNU and non-GNU.
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Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
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FlatpanelsHD
Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
The ads appeared sometime in 2016 but it is now escalating
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TIC-80 version 0.80
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GitHub
Release TIC-80 tiny computer 0.80.1344 · nesbox/TIC-80
CHANGELOG v0.80.1344
MAIN CHANGES
First of all, I want to say THANKS to all the people who helped release this version, especially the contributors
@asiekierka
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