Month: October 2020

    • The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations (Mark Graham/Internet Archive Blogs)

    Mark Graham / Internet Archive Blogs: The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations  —  Fact checking organizations and origin websites sometimes have information about pages archived in the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with

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    • Forty-six top US companies including Apple, Google, and Twitter have filed an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge to block Trump admin's H-1B visa changes (Nandita Mathur/Livemint)

    Nandita Mathur / Livemint: Forty-six top US companies including Apple, Google, and Twitter have filed an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge to block Trump admin’s H-1B visa changes  —  – The move comes in the wake of the US administration’s proposal to scrap the computerized lottery system to grant H-1B work visas … Forty-six

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    Kelvin Probes Review Shows How 4-Wire Resistance Measurement Works

    You might think the probes in the picture are just funny looking alligator clips. But if you watch [tomtektest’s] recent video, you’ll learn they are really Kelvin probes. Kelvin probes are a special type of probe for making accurate resistance measurements using four wires and, in fact, the probe’s jaws are electrically isolated from each

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    • Odaseva, a France-based data protection services provider for large-scale Salesforce customers, raises $25M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures (Annie Musgrove/Tech.eu)

    Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: Odaseva, a France-based data protection services provider for large-scale Salesforce customers, raises $25M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures  —  French SaaS company Odaseva has raised $25 million in Series B funding to continue growing its data governance platform for enterprise. Odaseva, a France-based data protection services provider for large-scale

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    • Profile of Shield AI, which raised money from a16z and others to develop autonomous military drones that scan buildings to help soldiers clear them (Elliott Ackerman/Wired)

    Elliott Ackerman / Wired: Profile of Shield AI, which raised money from a16z and others to develop autonomous military drones that scan buildings to help soldiers clear them  —  On the battlefield, any doorway can be a death trap.  A special ops vet, and his businessman brother, have built an AI to solve that problem.

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    Self-Driving RC Truck is a Master’s Thesis in Cybernetics and Robotics

    RC cars are a fun pastime, but for many hackers, taking things to the next level involves making the cars drive themselves. For his Masters thesis, [Jon] did just that, building a self-driving robot truck that confidently cruises the floor of his laboratory. The truck is based on a 1/14th scale Tamiya chassis, and had

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    • StrongDM, which grants and mediates user access to enterprise backend infrastructure and logs user actions in video replay, raises $17M Series A led by Sequoia (Igor Bosilkovski/Forbes)

    Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes: StrongDM, which grants and mediates user access to enterprise backend infrastructure and logs user actions in video replay, raises $17M Series A led by Sequoia  —  StrongDM, a single sign-on company for backend infrastructure, announced today that it has raised $17 million in Series A led by Sequoia Capital. StrongDM, which

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    Using Open Source to Train your Dog

    An open-source canine training research tool was just been released by [Walter Arce] and [Jeffrey Stevens] at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln’s Canine Cognition and Human Interaction Lab (C-CHIL). We didn’t realize that dog training research techniques were so high-tech. Operant conditioning, as opposed to Pavlovian, gives a positive reward, in this case dog treats,

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    • Intel launches new Iris Xe Max discrete GPU, with first laptops now available from Acer, Dell, and Asus (Monica Chin/The Verge)

    Monica Chin / The Verge: Intel launches new Iris Xe Max discrete GPU, with first laptops now available from Acer, Dell, and Asus  —  Try out Intel’s new discrete GPU  —  Earlier this month, the public got its first glimpse of Iris Xe Max, Intel’s new discrete GPU for thin-and-light laptops, at an Acer press

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    • How Trump's presidency has changed the internet, from fueling conspiracy theories to forcing social media platforms to reexamine their content policies (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)

    Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: How Trump’s presidency has changed the internet, from fueling conspiracy theories to forcing social media platforms to reexamine their content policies  —  How the president changed life online—for better and for worse  —  Being online has changed Donald Trump. How Trump’s presidency has changed the internet, from fueling conspiracy theories

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    • To reach net-zero carbon emissions, we must address social inequalities

    With COP26, the UN’s climate change conference, on the horizon next year in Glasgow, all eyes are on securing the decarbonization of the global economy. What this will mean and how it will be achieved will be hotly debated before, during and after the conference. Thanks to COVID-19, the world has experienced an extraordinary simulation

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    School Project Turns Plastic Waste Into Bricks

    Many plastics are, in theory at least, highly recyclable. Unfortunately, in reality, most plastic ends up as waste instead, harming the environment and providing no ongoing value to society. Wanting to investigate possible ways to repurpose this material, [Rehaan33] built a rig to create bricks out of waste plastic for a school project. The aim

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