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How Water, Paradoxically, Creates the Land We Walk On - Facts So Romantic - Nautilusnautil.us
It’s no secret that water shapes the world around us. Rivers etch great canyons into the Earth’s surface, while glaciers reorganize… -
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EFF and Eight Other Privacy Organizations Back Out of NTIA Face Recognition Multi-Stakeholder Processeff.org
EFF, along with eight other consumer-focused privacy advocacy organizations has backed out of the National Telecommunications Information Administration’s multi-stakeholder process to develop a privacy-protective code of conduct for companies using fac... -
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Raspberry Pi Official Case - Raspberry Piraspberrypi.org
Two and a half years ago, I found myself sitting in a car with Eben Upton about three days into my new job at Raspberry Pi. We discussed – among other things – everything we wanted to do with the Raspberry Pi hardware and with the products around the P... -
Can gaming help me see in 3D?mosaicscience.com
Nic Fleming explores new therapies based on video games in the hope of getting his first glimpse of 3D vision. -
Atomic Veggies: The Other Kind of GMOatlasobscura.com
In 1959, during a dinner party at the Royal Commonwealth Society in London, Muriel Howorth, atomic enthusiast, served her guests peanuts. These peanuts were... -
Go Ask Alice - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Who reads “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”? The answer used to be: Anyone who can read. From the tangled tale of mass literacy one can pluck a few specific objects—books that were to be found in every household where there was somebody who could read... -
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Shock European court decision: Websites are liable for users’ commentsarstechnica.co.uk
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Google’s App Engine For PHP Hits General Availabilitytechcrunch.com
Google's App Engine for PHP is now out of beta and generally available on the company's platform as a service offering. This means PHP apps are now covered.. - vdiscover.org
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Singapore Rising: The Plot to Be the Next Big Tech Hubrecode.net
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Patching an application from a device drivercodeconfessional.tumblr.com
I confess: I once fixed a bug in a device driver by having the driver patch the application calling it so that the bug was masked. Here’s my story… Long ago I worked on DOS and (early) Windows device... -
Optimizing An Important Atom Primitiveblog.atom.io
At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it. -
OPERA detects its fifth tau neutrino | CERNhome.web.cern.ch
The OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) experiment at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) at Gran Sasso in Italy has detected the fifth occurrence of a tau neutrino in the muon-neutrino beam from CERN. A p... -
Microscopic footage of a needle moving across the grooves of a recorddangerousminds.net
You would think that if you have an electron microscope and a record player, you’re most of the way there to being able to record close-up footage of a needle traversing the grooves of a long-player record. Well, you would be wrong. It was actually qui...