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Engineered symbionts activate honey bee immunity and limit pathogens
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Technology Networks
Engineered Bacteria Could Bee Saviors
Scientists have developed a new strategy to protect honeybees from a deadly trend known as colony collapse β genetically engineered strains of bacteria.
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New quasi-particle discovered: Introducing the Pi-ton
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phys.org
New quasi-particle discovered: Introducing the Pi-ton
In physics, there are very different types of particles: Elementary particles are the fundamental building blocks of matter. Other particles, such as atoms, are bound states consisting of several smaller ...
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Twitter to label deepfakes and other deceptive media
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Twitter to label deepfakes and other deceptive media
(Reuters) - Twitter (TWTR.N) said on Tuesday it would start applying a label to tweets containing synthetic or deceptively edited forms of media, as social media platforms brace for a potential onslaught of misinformation ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
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The man who discovered umami
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Bbc
The man who discovered umami
For centuries, humanity lived with the concept of sweet, salty, bitter and sour β but another flavour was hiding on the sidelines, writes Veronique Greenwood.
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Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
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BBC News
Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
The government says it wants to promote "wellbeing and gender equality".
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Mint: The programming language for writing single page applications
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Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel
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Substack
Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If youβd like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read onβ¦ Today Iβm going to write about my industry, which is Democratic party politics. Also, for those in D.C., Iβll be speaking at Solidβ¦
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Over 550 videos of 870 talks from FOSDEM 2020 have now been uploaded
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archive.fosdem.org
FOSDEM 2020 - Events
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Wacom tablets track every app you open
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Robert Heaton
Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open | Robert Heaton
I have a Wacom drawing tablet. I use it to draw cover illustrations for my blog posts, such as this one.
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Unix System Programming with Standard ML [pdf]
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Opnieuw: A simple and intuitive retrying library for Python
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Richard P. Feynman on the Distinction Between Past and Future
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Medium
Richard Feynmanβs Distinction between Future and Past
βWe have a different kind of awareness about what might happen than we have of what probably has happenedβ
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Flow Fields
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Tyler Hobbs
Flow Fields | Tyler Hobbs
The artwork of Tyler Hobbs, a practicing generative artist, creative coder, and painter, whose work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and has been...
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Brave uncovers widespread surveillance of UK citizens on UK council websites
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Brave Browser
Brave uncovers widespread surveillance of UK citizens by private companies embedded on UK council websites | Brave Browser
Brave has uncovered widespread surveillance of UK citizens by private companies embedded on UK council websites. "Surveillance on UK council websites", a new report from Brave, reveals the extent of private companiesβ surveillance of UK citizens when theyβ¦
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Backdoor mechanism still active in devices using HiSilicon chips
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ZDNET
Researcher: Backdoor mechanism still active in many IoT products
Researcher says a backdoor mechanism in devices running Xiongmai firmware is still active years after first being discovered.
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Limited Liability Is Causing Unlimited Harm
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Scaling to 100k Users
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Alexpareto
Scaling to 100k Users
Many startups have been there - what feels like legions of new users are signing up for accounts every day and the engineering team is scrambling to keep things running.
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Jeffrey Epstein's Mystery Bank Came Alive After His Death
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NY Times
Jeffrey Epsteinβs Mystery Bank Came Alive After His Death (Published 2020)
Southern Country International received millions of dollars from Mr. Epsteinβs estate in December.
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YaCy: Decentralized Web Search
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yacy.net
Home - YaCy
YaCy P2P - Decentralized Search Engine
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Twitter: βAn Incident Impacting Your Account Identityβ
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