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Liu Cixin’s ‘The Three-Body Problem’ Is Published in U.S.nytimes.com
Liu Cixin’s “The Three-Body Problem,” a science-fiction trilogy whose first book comes out Tuesday in the United States, has attracted a diverse Chinese audience. -
The Curse of the Unlucky Mummy - Issue 19: Illusions - Nautilusnautil.us
Sometime in the 1860s, five recent Oxford graduates took a trip to Egypt. Together they sailed down the Nile, a tourist attraction… -
Virtual Reality Fails Its Way to Successnytimes.com
For decades, V.R. was a complete flop. But now with the nausea-free Oculus Rift, it may be a total win. - queue.acm.org
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Global Disease Monitoring and Forecasting with Wikipediaploscompbiol.org
PLOS Computational Biology is an open-access - gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au
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How 18 inmates at California’s notorious San Quentin prison learn to codearstechnica.com
Forget making license plates: Select group now taught HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. - 0pointer.net
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After Docker: Unikernels and Immutable Infrastructuremedium.com
Unikernels and immutable infrastructure yield smaller, more secure and higher performance microservices than alternative… -
matt-42/vppgithub.com
vpp - Video++ is a video and image processing library that takes advantage of the C++11 and C++14 standard to ease the writing of fast parallel real-time video and image processing. -
Why we use HTTPS for every .gov we make18f.gsa.gov
18F uses HTTPS in every .gov website we make, so that our users have a fast, secure, private connection. -
The hidden messages in children’s booksbbc.com
Adults often find surprising subtexts in children’s literature – but are they really there? Hephzibah Anderson delves into the world of Freud and fairy tales. -
Exclusive: Controversial U.S. energy loan program has wiped out lossesreuters.com
(Reuters) - The controversial government program that funded failed solar company Solyndra, and became a lighting rod in the 2012 presidential election, is officially in the black.According to a report - github.com
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matt-42/iodgithub.com
iod - Inline object definitions and declarations for C++11. Json-like C++11 embedded domain specific language -
Brazil builds its own fiber optic network to avoid the NSAsovereignman.com
November 11, 2014 Santiago, Chile This past week Brazil announced that it will be building a 3,500-mile fiber-optic cable to Portugal in order to avoid the grip of the NSA. What’s more, they announced that not a penny of the $185 million expected to be... -
Creating an ASP.NET vNext Docker Container using Mono - MS Open Techmsopentech.com
This tutorial demonstrates how you build and host ASP.NET vNext Docker containerized applications.