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A Hacker Walks into a Trade Show: Electronica 2022(hackaday.com)
2 points by gigama 4y ago|0 comments
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by gigama 4y ago
Agree, though rather than be annoyed I opted to have some fun. Using a browser plugin that automatically changes all occurrences of selected words in a web page I now get a snarky chuckle whenever EM is mentioned. Also works well for crav
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by gigama 4y ago
"After years of development, researchers have managed to shrink two-photon microscopy into a device that can be mounted on rodents' heads without impeding behaviour." "[The] thumb-sized two-photon fluorescence microscope
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Thumb-sized microscope captures images deep inside the brains of active animals(nature.com)
56 points by gigama 4y ago|3 comments
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How a celebrity hacker upended one of the world’s influential social networks(cnn.com)
4 points by gigama 4y ago|0 comments
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by gigama 4y ago
Nym sounds like Tor with a blockchain financial incentive to keep it perpetually decentralized. [1] https://nymtech.net/ [2] https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/reward-sharing...
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The Computer Scientist Who Boosts Privacy with Entropy(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by gigama 4y ago|0 comments
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by gigama 4y ago
Interactive map: https://native-land.ca/ API info: https://native-land.ca/our-wonderful-wily-api/ API docs: https://native-land.ca/resources/api-docs/
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What Native land are you on? This map shows Indigenous tribes' past territories(npr.org)
5 points by gigama 4y ago|2 comments
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CISA: Election Security Rumor vs. Reality(cisa.gov)
30 points by gigama 4y ago|63 comments
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by gigama 4y ago
"Meta is asking its competitors for a wide range of insights, from their best-performing features to the names of their biggest advertisers. It wants to see all business receipts, which to its competitors is seemingly turning the antit
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Community science draws on the power of the crowd(nature.com)
2 points by gigama 4y ago|0 comments
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by gigama 4y ago
"People think it's a big deal but it happens all the time. Most of the time the seller is a government, a county, or it is electric recycling. ... And it is a good thing because hackers are a resource to make things safer." H
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A hacker bought a voting machine on eBay. Officials are now investigating(npr.org)
6 points by gigama 4y ago|2 comments
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by gigama 4y ago
> No action is needed from you but stay alert for scams.... especially leading up to the Merge. Don’t send your ETH to anyone in an attempt to “upgrade to ETH2” as there is no ETH2 token. Once The Merge is complete, there will be no dif
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The Upcoming Ethereum (ETH) Merge(coinbase.com)
1 points by gigama 4y ago|1 comments
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Smart software untangles gene regulation in cells(nature.com)
1 points by gigama 4y ago|0 comments
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by gigama 4y ago
Gee if only there were a way to automagically summarize and classify research articles through an API. Oh wait, there is... https://openai.com/api/
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Without appropriate metadata, data-sharing mandates are pointless(nature.com)
6 points by gigama 4y ago|2 comments
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by gigama 4y ago
Only have 1 spine and it has to last me the rest of my life so I tried these out and they feel like they actually work. Didn't even break a sweat. Seemed worth sharing here.
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Four easy exercises that can prevent and relieve pain from computer slouching(npr.org)
20 points by gigama 4y ago|1 comments
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Taking a magnifying glass to data center operations(news.mit.edu)
1 points by gigama 4y ago|0 comments
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New hardware offers faster computation for AI with much less energy(news.mit.edu)
1 points by gigama 4y ago|0 comments
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The Fall and Rise of Russian Electronic Warfare(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Weave Your Own Apollo-Era Memory(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by gigama 4y ago|0 comments
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by gigama 4y ago
"Some sophisticated applications of the expanded AlphaFold database might also depend on downloading its entire 23 terabyte contents, which won’t be feasible for many teams, Steinegger says. Cloud-based storage could also prove costly.
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AI predicts shape of nearly every known protein(nature.com)
3 points by gigama 4y ago|0 comments
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How governments seize millions in stolen cryptocurrency(technologyreview.com)
1 points by gigama 4y ago|0 comments
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by gigama 4y ago
"The high accuracy of predictions in tests often fools people into thinking the models are picking up on the 'true structure of the problem' in a human-like way..." A form of confirmation bias?
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Machine learning could fuel a reproducibility crisis in science(nature.com)
1 points by gigama 4y ago|0 comments

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