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At the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Brisbane, Australia, next week, roboticists from the University of Washington, in Seattle, will present RoboFly, a laser-powered insect-sized flapping wing robot that performs the first (very brief) untethered flight of a robot at such a small scale. Now the robots are coming for the jobs of the hard-working flies
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Intel said this week that a system based on its Loihi chip planned for 2019 will include the equivalent of 100 billion synapses, which is about the same brain complexity as a common mouse. Mental note: keep cheese away from computer
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Until now, requirements for architecture were left to the discretion of companies, developers and their target audiences, recent legal changes in the European Union and the United States have brought a new player to the table: regulations. Slap a "do not hack (please)" sticker on it?
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Security researchers have found a security flaw in Electron, a software framework that has been used in the past half-decade for building a wealth of popular desktop applications. You mean everyone building on a JavaScript-based 'platform' could be a problem?
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When the creators of Electron was asked if this is a widespread issue their reply was..."We're not positive".
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Surely they could've put a better spin on it then that.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That's terrible! I charge you to find a better pun!
Ad astra - both ways!
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There's a probability that he'll find one in the Electron Cloud.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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I hear their into bondage over there, lots of sex and valence.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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It's relatively easy these days to find critics of Skype, the popular online calling service that Microsoft acquired in 2011 for $8.5 billion. They let people use it?
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There's some sort of weird bias going on since Skype was always sh*t.
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That's true, but it's even shittier since Microshyte got ahold of it.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Cortana’s new boss Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Cortana Javier Soltero, admitted that Microsoft missed the boat when it came to personal digital assistants and smart speakers. Well, that's never happened before
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UCLA biologists report they have transferred a memory from one marine snail to another, creating an artificial memory, by injecting RNA from one to another. 4 out of 5 snails agree: tail shocks are bad (even without memory transfer)
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"JavaScript fatigue" is a well known concept (which also brought a lot of good) sired by the explosion of the JS community in the latest years but I would like to open a discussion about the rest of the software technologies as well. Or just 'X Fatigue article fatigue?'
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I think he got a bad case of article writing fatigue, there.
"I've written three paragraphs already! What more does the world want from me? Leave me alone! I'm tired."
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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In a Twitter world, that’s War & Peace.
TTFN - Kent
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Researchers at Musk-backed OpenAI propose a new way to tell if an AI is making the right decisions, and they released an online game to demonstrate the theory. 'Be it resolved that the meatbags should be eliminated'
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Ugly bags of mostly water!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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When Microsoft decided to reimagine its web development platform ASP.NET, they decided that having it tied to IIS might not be such a great idea. To some definition of 'Simplicity'
I was tempted to go with, "Shut up, OWIN", but I wasn't sure how many would get that - or care enough to get that.
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With coding applications constantly expanding, will the ability to write code be the literacy of the future? Rise of the Planet of the Code Monkeys
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What kind of world do these people envisage where everyone has to navigate their way through it by writing code? Is it one where code gets deleted on execution?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Depends on who or what's executing!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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When a crystallographer treated prime numbers as a system of particles, the resulting diffraction pattern created a new view of existing conjectures in number theory. For your prime time viewing enjoyment
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