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Initiative provides free access to more than 22,000 images of collection materialsblog.hrc.utexas.edu
To lower barriers to use of its collections, the Ransom Center has adopted an open access policy, removing the requirement for permission and use fees for a significant portion of its online collections believed to be in the public domain. In c [...] -
bannalia.blogspot.com
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ConsensusResearch/Scorex-Lagonakigithub.com
Scorex-Lagonaki - Ultra-compact cryptocurrency engine for hacking around within just 4K lines of Scala code -
Automatic bug repairnewsoffice.mit.edu
System fixes bugs by importing functionality from other programs — without access to source code. -
London: the city that ate itselftheguardian.com
London is a city ruled by money. The things that make it special – the markets, pubs, high streets and communities – are becoming unrecognisable. The city is suffering a form of entropy whereby anything distinctive is converted into property value. Can... -
The Remarkable Self-Organization of Ants | Quanta Magazinequantamagazine.org
Knowing the rules behind ant-made structures could help scientists understand how other complex systems emerge in nature. -
AOL Takes Over Majority of Microsoft’s Ad Business, Swaps Google Search For Bingblogs.wsj.com
AOL and Microsoft struck a partnership that will result in AOL taking over ad sales responsibilities for display, mobile and video ads for all Microsoft properties in the U.S. and eight other markets. -
medium.com
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The Troubled Waters of Potosítherotarianmagazine.com
Despite losing hundreds of feet, “the mountain that eats men,” as it became known, still looms over Potosí – which now ranks as one of the most polluted places on earth. LEGEND has it, more than 400 years ago in a sparsely populated region of what is n... -
Apache Storm Roadmap at Yahooyahoohadoop.tumblr.com
By Bobby Evans and the Apache Storm team at Yahoo Yahoo uses Apache Storm for large scale distributed stream processing. Think of stream processing like Apache Hadoop but instead of batching the data first, it processes the data as it arrives. Stream ... - statwonk.com
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Q&A with Malte Schwarzkopf on Distributed Systems Orchestration in the Modern Data Centerblog.kismatic.com
A Q&A with Malte Schwarzkopf tl;dr: Malte explains how the primary goal of Google Omega’s shared-state design was flexibility in software engineering, rather than scalability. He explains that ... -
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Understanding the critical rendering path, rendering pages in 1 secondmedium.com
A popular metric commonly used in performance measurement and evaluation, is the total page load time. This metric, obvi… -
Windows kerberos ticket theft and exploitation on other platformsmikkolehtisalo.wordpress.com
Introduction In the past there has been a lot of talk about pass the hash, but surprisingly little about different methods for exploiting kerberos tickets. Besides the discussion focused on golden ... -
What If the Biggest Solar Storm on Record Happened Today?news.nationalgeographic.com
If this solar cycle produces a flare like the 1859 Carrington Event, we may face trillions in damages and year-long blackouts, experts say. -
Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehiclesblogs.wsj.com
Automakers are developing one of the largest public key infrastructure security systems ever conceived, the heart of an effort to protect a new generation of networked vehicles that is expected to hit the mass market by the early 2020s. -
Is the network the limit? Dealing with Weave, CoreOS and Azurearjanschaaf.github.io
How does networking on CoreOS + Weave perform on Azure? -
Ask Ethan #94: Could dark matter not exist?medium.com
Is it possible that our problems indicate a flaw in the theory of gravity?