The woman who can smell Parkinson's
Meet the woman from Perth whose super sense of smell could change the way Parkinson's disease is diagnosed.
Hasnain says:
This is extremely exciting. I wonder how the research has progressed since
Posted on 2018-05-27T07:24:12+0000
The Importance of Deep Work & The 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
The tech industry, especially the security industry, seems outrageously overwhelming to newcomers and even as an intermediate “InfoSec Pro” there seems to be an overwhelming number of paths and topics one can focus on. The problem most of us, especially newcomers, encounter is that we don’t kn...
Curb Cuts - 99% Invisible
If you live in an American city and you don’t personally use a wheelchair, it’s easy to overlook the small ramp at most intersections, between the sidewalk and the street. Today, these curb cuts are everywhere, but fifty years ago — when an activist named Ed Roberts was young — most urban c...
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Posted on 2018-05-27T01:11:30+0000
Code to joy
Is learning to code in middle age a fool’s errand or a committed act of digital citizenship?
Hasnain says:
“During the six weeks I spend building a mini-website, I learn some valuable lessons. The most important is that computers are insanely literal and pedantic. An absent colon or extraneous bracket is easy to miss and is likely to cause the machine to stare at you uncomprehendingly, metaphorical fingers drumming on the table. One high-end programmer tells me how she spent six months hunting a bug within a big system, knowing others had tried and failed, finally tracking the problem to an underscore that should have been a dash. A shift-devil, she calls it. No wonder coders can appear nervy and terse to outsiders.”
Posted on 2018-05-26T22:59:32+0000
Amazon set to drop $1billion on TV adaptation of sci-fi novel Obama once called 'immense'
Amazon seems determined to have a Game of Thrones-sized success of its own, recently teaming up with J.R.R. Tolkien’s for a Lord of the Rings TV series that could reportedly cost up to $500 million.
NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction and into science
You probably thought it was infinitely cool when Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo first emerged from their cryosleep chambers in Alien, but now that slice of sci-fi could become a reality in our lifetime.
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Posted on 2018-05-26T22:40:53+0000
Opinion | Antibiotics in Meat Could Be Damaging Our Guts
The F.D.A. banned the use of antibiotics for growth promotion in animals last year. One organic cattle farmer is sure the ban is being flouted.
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Posted on 2018-05-26T19:47:57+0000
Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? · tomek's blog
For me, the most favorite type of a computer program is an emulator. Being able to run code from a completely different hardware architecture always seemed like a magic. The old computers are great on their own, so this kind of connection between historic machines and the modern computing environmen...
GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
Blocking 500 million users is a serious thing. Still, I have found sites that have decided to implement the most secure way to comply with the new GDPR: Block all EU users! Yes, it's hard to believe that somebody takes such a drastic decision, but it's happening. Trying to walk in the shoes of these...
US news sites unavailable in EU over GDPR
The LA Times is among many sites blocked to European users over new EU rules on using personal data.
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Posted on 2018-05-25T14:50:37+0000