VW invests $2.6B in self-driving startup Argo AI as part of Ford alliance (Score: 100+ in 10 hours)
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TechCrunch
VW invests $2.6 billion in self-driving startup Argo AI as part of Ford alliance
VW Group is investing $2.6 billion in capital and assets into Argo AI, the Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle startup that burst onto the scene two years ago with $1 billion in backing from Ford. The deal, which has been rumored for months, is part of a…
Google Photos is making photos semi-public (🔥 Score: 104+ in 1 hour)
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Medium
Google Photos is making your photos semi-public and you probably don’t realise
I’ve noticed something about Google Photos that is weird enough that nobody initially believes it.
A man who became a hermit at 20 (Score: 100+ in 9 hours)
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BBC News
Why this man became a hermit at 20
Many people really don't like being alone. They feel lonely. For others, however, solitude can be a source of ecstasy.
Imaging Bell-type nonlocal behavior (Score: 100+ in 2 hours)
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Programming and Programming Languages (2018) (Score: 102+ in 1 day)
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AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking (❄️ Score: 103+ in 2 days)
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New Scientist
AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking
A sheet of glass can distinguish between drawings of 0 to 9, because light waves reflected off the images are bent differently as they pass through the glass
MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member (Score: 100+ in 4 hours)
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Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC (Score: 101+ in 1 day)
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Ars Technica
Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC
CDC wants more data and faster reporting before the next wave of cases hits.
Why the C++ standard ships every three years (Score: 107+ in 3 hours)
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Sutter’s Mill
Draft FAQ: Why does the C++ standard ship every three years?
WG21 has a strict schedule (see P1000) by which we ship the standard every three years. We don’t delay it. Around this time of each cycle, we regularly get questions about “but why so strict?”, esp…
Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008) (Score: 102+ in 5 hours)
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Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range (Score: 100+ in 3 hours)
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AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains/Losses (Score: 102+ in 1 day)
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AnandTech
AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains, Some Losses
It’s been a long two weeks following our AMD-review-athon weekend, culminating 7/7 with our extensive coverage of the new Ryzen 3000 series CPUs, the new Radeon RX 5700 series Navi GPUs, as well as our complete overview of X570 chipset based motherboards.
One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online (Score: 101+ in 2 hours)
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Polygon
One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online
The unlikely journey of Katia Sae and their sidekick, an AI named Allison
VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports (Score: 102+ in 1 day)
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The Verge
VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports
Now bring back the P.
Petrichor: why does rain smell so good? (Score: 101+ in 8 hours)
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BBC News
Petrichor: why does rain smell so good?
There's some chemistry to the pleasant smell of rain after a long, dry spell.
Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a Proxy (Score: 100+ in 11 hours)
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Boredhacking
Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a Proxy
In order to hide your IP address and to try and limit throttling when web scraping, it might be a good idea to use a proxy such as Tor. This post describes how to use Python based web scraping tools and Tor to hide yourself when scraping websites for data.…
What is Silverblue? (Score: 100+ in 3 hours)
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Fedora Magazine
What is Silverblue? - Fedora Magazine
You may have heard about Fedora Silverblue, the next-generation desktop OS. This article gives you a more complete view about what it is and how it works.
The Good Employee, a story about how you can explain companies with graph theory (❄️ Score: 100+ in 2 days)
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madeddu.xyz
The Good Employee, a story about how you can explain modern companies with graph theory
PreludeThis is a twin post of - I guess - a good one that I wrote a long time ago: I was just surfing the blog thinking about all I would like to do, and I c...
How to read the international phonetic alphabet (Score: 102+ in 1 day)
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Let’s Build a Web Server, Part 1 (2015) (Score: 101+ in 11 hours)
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Ruslan's Blog
Let’s Build A Web Server. Part 1.
Out for a walk one day, a woman came across a construction site and saw three men working. She asked the first man, “What are you doing?” Annoyed by the question, the first man barked, “Can’t you see that I’m laying bricks?” Not satisfied with the answer…
Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests (Score: 103+ in 5 hours)
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The University of Sydney
Thwack! Insects feel chronic pain after injury
Pain researchers at University of Sydney have found compelling evidence that insects feel persistent pain after injury. Read more.