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Mystery photos from CERN's historycds.cern.ch
Over the first 50 years of its existence, before digital photography became the norm, CERN accumulated about a quarter of a million hard-copy images in its archive. Now, a project is underway to digitise the entire collection and make it searchable via... -
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Can William Gibson Predict the Future?gq.com
Sci-fi novelist William Gibson writes dystopian thrillers that have an eerie habit of coming true. Which is a little unsettling, actually, because his new book, The Peripheral, is his most dire yet. Zach Baron asks the author about what's next for the ... -
Thaw reveals photographer’s notebook from Captain Scott’s Antarctic huttheguardian.com
Notebook belonging to George Murray Levick remarkably legible after conservation work, with find blamed on global warming -
Guardian launches open-source data journalism tooljournalism.co.uk
Swarmize enables journalists to tell new, collaborative stories by making use of real-time data collection and visualisation -
The Skinny on Bad Parchmentmedievalbooks.nl
My favourite activity is to touch, smell, and listen to the crackling sound of cows and sheep that have been dead for a thousand years. That's right, I am talking about medieval parchment, the stan... -
October 2014 results - big changessecuritypitfalls.wordpress.com
While last month's results were not very interesting, this month is anything but. But before we go into results, there were few small changes to how the statistics are reported. First difference is... - jlebar.com
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Bitcoin 2.0: Sidechains And Ethereum And Zerocash, Oh My! | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Strange, interesting, and wildly ambitious things are afoot in the world of Bitcoin and blockchains. I give you Zerocash, a completely anonymous currency;.. -
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Twitter to acquire Twitpicrecode.net
Twitter will acquire Twitpic, a website that allowed users to post photos to the microblogging site. Twitpic announced on its blog that, after the "roller coaster ride" of recent months, it has rea... - blog.twitpic.com
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Python Diary | Building a CPU simulator in Pythonpythondiary.com
A Python blog with many different posts, package reviews, and tutorials. -
Answers, results of polls, and a brief description of the programgowers.wordpress.com
I have now closed the polls in the second mathematical writing experiment. Here are the results. I have also published the comments on the first and second experiments, which shed further light on ... -
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Hand coded assembly beats intrinsics in speed and simplicity - Dan Luudanluu.com
Every once in a while, I hear how intrinsics have improved enough that it’s safe to use them for high performance code. That would be nice. The … -
Retailers are disabling NFC readers to shut out Apple Paytheverge.com
There's a lot of hype around Apple Pay right now, but not everyone is on board with the new mobile payments system. In fact, a significant number of merchants, including heavyweights like Walmart,... -
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Secretive Startup Unveils Universal Chipblogs.wsj.com
Venture capitalists these days tend to avoid chip companies, largely because developing new products costs a bundle. That hasn't stopped Soft Machines. -
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