AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology
Deepmind
AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
Proteins are essential to life, supporting practically all its functions. They are large complex molecules, made up of chains of amino acids, and what a protein does largely depends on its unique 3D structure. Figuring out what shapes proteins fold into is…
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-mac-instances-to-build-test-macos-ios-ipados-tvos-and-watchos-apps/
Amazon
New – Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps | Amazon Web Services
Throughout the course of my career I have done my best to stay on top of new hardware and software. As a teenager I owned an Altair 8800 and an Apple II. In my first year of college someone gave me a phone number and said “call this with modem.” I did, it…
Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html
CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs https://clig.dev/
clig.dev
Command Line Interface Guidelines
An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.
Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub http://radicle.xyz#/beta
radicle.xyz
Radicle: the sovereign forge
Sovereign code infrastructure.
Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00152
Zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams https://github.com/oskarsve/ms-teams-rce
GitHub
GitHub - oskarsve/ms-teams-rce
Contribute to oskarsve/ms-teams-rce development by creating an account on GitHub.
AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits https://twitter.com/catfish_man/status/1335373029245775872
Twitter
David Smith
More evidence that my ongoing internet woes are at AT&T’s end https://t.co/QurZdHBNz3
Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017) https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/22/philip-glass-80-interview-observer-new-review
the Guardian
Philip Glass: ‘My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies’
About to turn 80, the composer talks about his slow, taxi-driving road to success, and why he is anything but a minimalist…
EU countries team up for semiconductor push https://www.reuters.com/article/eu-tech-semiconductor-idUSKBN28H1HV
Reuters
Germany, France, 11 other EU countries team up for semiconductor push
Germany, France, Spain and ten other EU countries have joined forces to invest in processors and semiconductor technologies, key to internet-connected devices and data processing, in a push to catch up with the United States and Asia.
YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/supporting-the-2020-us-election
blog.youtube
Supporting the 2020 U.S. election
Updates to our work supporting the integrity of the 2020 U.S. election.
A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2020/12/10/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-21277/
Windows Insider Blog
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21277
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21277 (RS_PRERELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. As mentioned here, we are giving Windows Insiders in
Who Americans spend their time with, by age https://ourworldindata.org/time-with-others-lifetime
Our World in Data
Time Use
How do people across the world spend their time? How do daily activities differ across countries, and how do these differences matter for people’s lives? Explore data and research on time use.
Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2020fa/self-guided/
Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/media-centre/news/2020/longest-known-exposure-photograph-ever-captured-using-a-beer-can
I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel https://alaa.blog/2020/12/how-i-hacked-facebook-part-one/
Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API
Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber https://abooklikefoo.com/escape/
abooklike.foo
Break your literary bubble | A Book Like Foo
Find new books that break you out of your echo chamber!