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Financial Mathematics and Ultimate Frisbee

Posted by extraterra on Saturday October 27, 2018 @01:00PM
from the blogs.scientificamerican.com dept.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/financial-mathematics-and-ultimate-frisbee/

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Liveblog: All the news from Apple’s “more in the making” Brooklyn event

Posted by extraterra on Saturday October 27, 2018 @10:56AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1401177

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What the Quantum Internet Has in Store

Posted by extraterra on Saturday October 27, 2018 @10:02AM
from the scientificamerican.com dept.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/here-rsquo-s-what-the-quantum-internet-has-in-store/

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Garmin Vivosmart 4 review: The attractive new face of the Vivosmart line

Posted by extraterra on Saturday October 27, 2018 @08:02AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1393515

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Urban Planning Guru Says Driverless Cars Won’t Fix Congestion

Posted by extraterra on Saturday October 27, 2018 @05:38AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/technology/driverless-cars-congestion.html

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Bushido-Powered DDoS Service Whipped Up from Leaked Code

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @07:56PM
from the bleepingcomputer.com dept.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bushido-powered-ddos-service-whipped-up-from-leaked-code/

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Volcanologists just ranked the most threatening volcanoes in the United States

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @05:52PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/26/18029896/most-threatening-volcanoes-in-the-united-states

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Trilobites: A Volcanic Eruption on Mars? Nope

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @05:04PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/science/mars-cloud-volcano-eruption-arsia-mons.html

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The Week in Ransomware – October 26th 2018 – Decryptors, RaaS, and More

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @04:18PM
from the bleepingcomputer.com dept.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-week-in-ransomware-october-26th-2018-decryptors-raas-and-more/

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The 2019 Hyundai Nexo is an upmarket hydrogen fuel-cell SUV

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @03:01PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1400853

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It’s a Good Time to Be a Blockchain Developer

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @02:04PM
from the spectrum.ieee.org dept.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/its-a-good-time-to-be-a-blockchain-developer

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The Abandoned Graveyards on a Thawing Arctic Island

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @12:52PM
from the atlasobscura.com dept.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abandoned-graveyards-herschel-island

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GitHub is now officially a part of Microsoft

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @11:42AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1400699

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Virgin Orbit moves closer to launching a rocket to space from a 747

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @10:53AM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/26/18026484/virgin-orbit-launcherone-photos-plane-boeing-747

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A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @10:05AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/phones-children-silicon-valley.html

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Tesla hugely exceeded expectations last quarter

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @09:04AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1400117

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Mission Math: Which Planets Do Space Scientists Love Most--and Least?

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @08:00AM
from the scientificamerican.com dept.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mission-math-which-planets-do-space-scientists-love-most-mdash-and-least/

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What Causes Alcohol-Induced Blackouts?

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @06:45AM
from the scientificamerican.com dept.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-causes-alcohol-induced-blackouts/

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The Next Big One? Earthquake Scientists Look to A.I

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @05:38AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/technology/earthquake-predictions-artificial-intelligence.html

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Perceptual Illusions

Posted by extraterra on Friday October 26, 2018 @03:33AM
from the nautil.us dept.

http://nautil.us/blog/12-mind_bending-perceptual-illusions

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New DemonBot Botnet Pulls the YARN in Hadoop Servers

Posted by extraterra on Thursday October 25, 2018 @08:36PM
from the bleepingcomputer.com dept.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-demonbot-botnet-pulls-the-yarn-in-hadoop-servers/

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How Curry Became a Japanese Naval Tradition

Posted by extraterra on Thursday October 25, 2018 @06:36PM
from the atlasobscura.com dept.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-curry-history

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Snap Continues to Struggle to Gain Users

Posted by extraterra on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:39PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/snap-quarterly-results.html

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Half of enterprise machines run Windows 10, as Windows 7’s end of life looms

Posted by extraterra on Thursday October 25, 2018 @04:28PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1400285

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November 1918: The First World War Ends

Posted by extraterra on Thursday October 25, 2018 @03:00PM
from the spectrum.ieee.org dept.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/november-1918-the-first-world-war-ends

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Why England Once Forced Everyone to Be Buried in Wool

Posted by extraterra on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:15PM
from the atlasobscura.com dept.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/england-wool-burial-shrouds

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U.S. Deep-Sixes Plutonium-Handling Nuclear Fuel Plant

Posted by extraterra on Thursday October 25, 2018 @12:00PM
from the spectrum.ieee.org dept.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/nuclear/us-deepsixes-plutoniumhandling-nuclear-fuel-plant

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Ford recalls 1.5M Focuses for faulty fuel tank purge valves

Posted by extraterra on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:51AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1400149

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Scientists Back Efforts to Pull CO2 from the Atmosphere

Posted by extraterra on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:00AM
from the scientificamerican.com dept.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-back-efforts-to-pull-co2-from-the-atmosphere/

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Twitter Posts Another Profit as User Numbers Drop

Posted by extraterra on Thursday October 25, 2018 @08:38AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/twitter-quarterly-earnings.html

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