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SteamOS
SteamOS Beta is the first public release of our Linux-based operating system. The base system draws from Debian 7, code named Debian Wheezy. Our work builds on top of the solid Debian core and optimizes it for a living room experience. Most of all, it is an open Linux platform that leaves you in ful...
David Deutsch – On Artificial Intelligence
The very laws of physics imply that artificial intelligence must be possible. What's holding us up?
Inside the Go Playground - The Go Blog
In September 2010 we introduced the Go Playground, a web service that compiles and executes arbitrary Go code and returns the program output.
The Best Books I Read in 2013
December 12, 2013 | By Bill Gates I read a lot, but I don?t always choose what?s on the bestseller list. Many of the books I read this year actually came out years ago.
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Posted on 2013-12-13T00:45:27+0000
Capturing the Second Largest Tree in the World in a Single Image
For a recent National Geographic story on giant sequoia trees, photographer Michael “Nick” Nichols was tasked with capturing a photograph showing the sheer
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Posted on 2013-12-12T21:21:43+0000
Code rant: Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy?
When people are doing a physical task, it’s easy to assess how hard they are working. You can see the physical movement, the sweat. You also see the result of their work: the brick wall rising, the hole in the ground getting bigger. Recognising and rewarding hard work is a pretty fundamental human i...
Madagascar village 'hit by plague'
A village in Madagascar has been hit by a deadly outbreak of the bubonic plague, medical experts on the island confirm.
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I know it's horrible and I'm probably going to hell for this, but I find it hilarious that the bubonic plague hit Madagascar first ...
Posted on 2013-12-11T02:09:42+0000
Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data
First, before we look into that alert, the system lets us quickly access a variety of background information about our subject. To start with of course, we can easily see Mr. Benjamin’s movements throughout the course of the day: A sense of the subject’s movements over time can als...
Tomgram: Chase Madar, The Criminalization of Everyday Life | TomDispatch
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"Even as simple a matter as getting yourself from point A to point B can quickly become a law enforcement matter as travel and public space are ever more aggressively policed. Waiting for a bus? Such loitering just got three Rochester youths arrested."
What the frak...
Posted on 2013-12-10T19:38:49+0000