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
Why Cul-de-Sacs Are Bad for Your Health
Award-winning Canadian journalist Charles Montgomery's fascinating new book Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design examines how lessons from psychology, neuroscience and design activism can help us fix broken cities and improve our quality of life in an increasingly urban-centered w...
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Posted on 2013-12-10T19:13:26+0000