Google's Small-Scale Web Tool Creator “App Maker” Is Now Available for GSuite

(Cross-posted from The Keyword ) It’s easy to get used to doing things a certain way. This can be a good thing if you're prepping for the... | Continue reading


@gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com | 5 years ago

The Best Menstrual Cup

After testing 23 menstrual cups from 13 different manufacturers, we found the best picks for most first-time users. Read on to find one that works for you. | Continue reading


@thewirecutter.com | 5 years ago

NYC to Ban Single-Use Styrofoam starting 2019

The city passed a bill back in 2013 banning Styrofoam, but the ban has been tied up in court until now. | Continue reading


@gothamist.com | 5 years ago

Great day for hotels in Boston: AirBnB effectively shut down

“Boston City Council approves rules limiting short-term rentals like Airbnb” (WCVB) describes a new regulatory regime that adds jobs for bureaucrats (to register AirBnB hosts and monito… | Continue reading


@blogs.harvard.edu | 5 years ago

What's the Minimum Number of People for a Generational Ship to Proxima Centauri?

Space and Astronomy news | Continue reading


@universetoday.com | 5 years ago

Tiny Bug Inflicts Massive Hail Damage–A Year Later – Weather Underground

Tens of millions in hail damage can occur a year after a hailstorm, thanks to a tiny mite and a virus that attacks wheat fields.. | Continue reading


@wunderground.com | 5 years ago

The Confederacy lives on in several official US state flags

According to Whose Heritage?, a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center on public symbols of the Confederacy, progress over the | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

Implementing GDPR compliant email in-house

When store2be started 3 years ago we were searching for a nice way to handle email templating and sending. I came across Sendwithus, an… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Improving Deep Learning on HPE Servers with NovuMind: GPU RDMA Made Easy

Bruno Monnet from HPE gave this talk at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference. "Deep Learning demands massive amounts of computational power. Those computation power usually involve heterogeneous computation resources, e.g., GPUs and InfiniBand as installed on HPE Apollo. NovuForc … | Continue reading


@insidehpc.com | 5 years ago

Compassionate Man Rescues Pangolin Clinging to Ladder of Storm Drain With Rushing Water Below

A really compassionate barefoot man in a muscle shirt carefully climbed down a ladder into a storm drain to rescue a wayward pangolin who was clinging | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Reducing the time it takes to write meta descriptions for large websites

The process of writing meta descriptions will likely be improved using machine learning techniques, but in the meantime, contributor Paul Shapiro shares ways to semi-automate writing meta descriptions. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 5 years ago

Stealthy Startup Aims to Reinvent AI for Manufacturing

Some 400 engineers are working under the radar at AutoLab AI with former Autodesk CEOs leading the pack | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 5 years ago

Finally! The 800 million ways Facebook gets serious about local business

Contributor Adam Dorfman explains how to capitalize on the one-two punch of Facebook advertising and organic engagement through Marketplace, your own page and Facebook’s own advertising products. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 5 years ago

ACM JOCCH

Publishes papers of significant and lasting value in all areas relating to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in support of Cultural Heritage | Continue reading


@jocch.acm.org | 5 years ago

Europe's New Copyright Rules Are Like YouTube Content ID System–for the Internet

The European Union wants to take the upload filters that make no one happy and apply them to all content on the internet. | Continue reading


@motherboard.vice.com | 5 years ago

Snapchat Launches Snap Kit: Developers API

Grow your app with Snapchat’s best features | Continue reading


@kit.snapchat.com | 5 years ago

Netflix is now almost THREE TIMES what it was a year ago – Analysis

Read the excerpt from my article on AlphaStreet News below | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Nice vs. Kind

Written By: Houston Kraft | Continue reading


@characterstrong.com | 5 years ago

The ECB’s Balance Sheet Is Growing Faster Than the Entire Eurozone

The ECB is printing money and monetizing debt faster than all the governments in the Eurozone combined are borrowing | Continue reading


@thesoundingline.com | 5 years ago

Strategies for Negotiating Licenses

Intellectual Property Expert Group | Continue reading


@ipeg.com | 5 years ago

BSC Fires Up Power9-V100 Hybrid Compute on MareNostrum 4

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is one of the flagship HPC facilities in Europe and it arguably has the most elegant and spiritual of datacenters in the world, located inside of Torre Girona Chapel. While BSC has been a strong proponent of IBM’s Power processors in past syste … | Continue reading


@nextplatform.com | 5 years ago

Which New York City Borough Would Win an All-Out Civil War?

Manhattan doesn't stand a chance. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Async programming basics every JavaScript developer should know in 2018

A beginner's guide to async programming in Javascript | Continue reading


@dev.to | 5 years ago

The massively charming over-enthusiasm of Bus Simulator 18

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 5 years ago

@interiorglobe

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@atelierdore.com | 5 years ago

What the Viral Media of the Civil War Era Can Teach Us About Prejudice

See how this story connects to history. | Continue reading


@bunkhistory.org | 5 years ago

Wilson Residence by SPACE International

Formerly the site of a traditional Venice bungalow, Wilson residence respects the scale of the 3600sf parcel with an efficient organization. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 5 years ago

Using NLP to predict hospital readmission

Predicting hospital readmission with discharge summaries. | Continue reading


@blog.insightdatascience.com | 5 years ago

The Great Hank Azaria Discusses His Career as an Actor Using a Visual Timeline of the Roles He Played

The very funny and rather prodigious actor Hank Azaria sat down with Vanity Fair to discuss his career, the parts he play and the friendships he's made | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 5 years ago

Apple’s latest feature will be a nightmare to law enforcement agencies

Apple's (AAPL) conviction of protecting user information just took a level up with its latest update, in a move that could put law enforcement agencies in further misery. Currently, police gain access to data on iPhones through their Lightning port, a feature that is widely seen … | Continue reading


@news.alphastreet.com | 5 years ago

Luna 15 and Apollo 11: A Near-Miss on the Moon?

Tranquility base blog: little stories about space exploration. | Continue reading


@tranquilitybaseblog.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

Brains May Teeter Near Their Tipping Point

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@quantamagazine.org | 5 years ago

Simos Xenitellis: How to use LXD container hostnames on the host in Ubuntu 18.04

If you have two LXD containers, mycontainer1 and mycontainer2, then you can reference each other with those handy *.lxd hostnames like this, $ lxc exec mycontainer1 — sudo –user ubuntu … | Continue reading


@blog.simos.info | 5 years ago

“We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?”

Waiting for a world-changing mission might prevent you from doing work that’s worth doing. | Continue reading


@erickarjaluoto.com | 5 years ago

Facebook might go from fake news to ‘no news’

The path-breaking transformation of social media platforms into news sources in recent years seems to be a trend that is slowly reversing, and the credit mainly goes to Facebook (FB) which rules the sector. From paid news to the data leak, there is no dearth of reasons for people … | Continue reading


@news.alphastreet.com | 5 years ago

(American) Nuclear Power Won’t Survive Without a Government Handout

Some plants are shutting down, new ones aren’t being built, and the ones still operational can’t compete with other sources of power on price. | Continue reading


@fivethirtyeight.com | 5 years ago

NASA is live on Twitch

Astronauts Venture into Space for a Spacewalk | Continue reading


@twitch.tv | 5 years ago

Typinator 7.6

Fixes bugs and updates helper applications to 64-bit. (€24.99 new, free update, 7.9 MB) | Continue reading


@tidbits.com | 5 years ago

ChronoSync 4.8.7

Maintenance release with Amazon S3 improvements and fixes for several niggling bugs. ($49.99 new, free update, 48.9 MB) | Continue reading


@tidbits.com | 5 years ago

Why GDPR Compliance Is a Ready-Made Problem For APIs

If you were existing anywhere but under a rock for the last few weeks, then you were probably subjected to a gauntlet of GDPR notifications from the websites that you frequent, including ProgrammableWeb. They may not have even mentioned GDPR or the General Data Protection Regulat … | Continue reading


@programmableweb.com | 5 years ago

Not Only Is the Mac Mini Outdated, It's No Longer Mini

Link to: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/03/its-not-quite-a-mac-mini-but-its-my-server/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Saving the ‘god of ugly things’: NZ battles to restore its rodent-sized insects

Nearly wiped out by invasive mammals, New Zealand's giant weta are making a comeback | Continue reading


@sciencemag.org | 5 years ago

How to Communicate Anonymously Online

Learn About Search Encrypt, a private search engine. Using an encrypted search engine can keep your data safe online. We're sharing news about internet, technology and search engines. Our search engine eliminates the need to clear your browser history and helps keep you safe on t … | Continue reading


@choosetoencrypt.com | 5 years ago

What's really wrong with WikiLeaks -T. Dalrymple (2010)

The dissolution of privacy is a fundamental aim of totalitarianism. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

SEC announces cryptocurrency ether is not a security

The SEC has finally given cryptocurrency markets and investors clarity on whether ether is a security or a cryptocurrency. | Continue reading


@uk.finance.yahoo.com | 5 years ago

My Approach to Getting Dramatically Better as a Programmer

There was a recent discussion among my social group about what “getting dramatically better as a programmer” means. Based on that discussion, I’ve decided to share my own approach… | Continue reading


@malisper.me | 5 years ago

Neural scene representation and rendering

We introduce the Generative Query Network (GQN), a framework within which machines learn to perceive their surroundings by training only on data obtained by themselves as they move around scenes. Much like infants and animals, the GQN learns by trying to make sense of its observa … | Continue reading


@deepmind.com | 5 years ago

Preview a bot on your site in seconds (no signup)

What would Drift’s chatbot look like on your site? Find out without having to install or download anything. Enter your email and you’ll see the power of Drift in seconds. Seriously, it’s that easy. See for yourself why 100,000+ companies choose Drift to engage prospects with conv … | Continue reading


@drift.com | 5 years ago