From Interesting Stuff, a Flipboard magazine by jha
It's been a good year for documentary storytelling – make sure these films are on your list if you haven't seen them yet 31December 2017 Throughout 2017 we've seen…
The 100 best nonfiction books of all time: the full list
the guardian
After two years of careful reading, moving backwards through time, Robert McCrum has concluded his selection of the 100 greatest nonfiction books. Take a quick look at five centuries of great writing Robert McCrum reflects on his 100 greatest nonfiction books list The 100 best novels written in English: the full list What did Robert miss? Leave your thoughts in the comments 1. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (2014) An engrossing account of the looming catastrophe caused by ecology's " Read the full story
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10 Best Free Antivirus Software For 2018 To Protect Your PC
Fossbytes
f you're using Windows operating system and you have a rough idea of what's happening in the cybersecurity world, you must be knowing that your favorite computer isn't safe from malware and other threats. Same applies to Android and macOS platforms. To protect you from threats, cybersecurity firms develop and release antivirus software. In this […] The post 10 Best Free Antivirus Software For 2018 To Protect Your Computer appeared first on Fossbytes. Read the full story
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.A New Type of Computer Could Render Many Software Hacks Obsolete
VICE
DARPA is pumping millions of dollars into a computer circuit "Rubik's cube." Read the full story
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From mathematics, a Flipboard magazine by sarah masare
In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute announced the Millennium Prize problems. These were a collection of seven of…
From Cool Stuff, a Flipboard magazine by Kenneth Reid
Netflix's incredibly niche, personalised subgenres have long captivated movie nerds, from "Steamy Crime Movies from the…
From Music, a Flipboard magazine by NPR
In spite of the back seat classical music often takes in America in terms of sales figures and sheer visibility, there's nothing wrong with the music…
From Food & Drink, a Flipboard magazine by The Guardian
From Scotland to Japan, the best buys for the festive season The Scots have an appealingly philosophical way of looking at weather. You can hear it in…
From Artificial Intelligence, a Flipboard magazine by Jeremie Faye
This tutorial was originally posted here on Ben's blog, GormAnalysis. Artificial Neural Networks are all the rage. One has to wonder if the catchy name played a role in…
Stealth turns 40: Looking back at the first flight of Have Blue
Ars Technica
The forerunner of the F-117 Stealth Fighter flew for the first time 40 years ago this month. Read the full story
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The best tech for people who appreciate practical gifts
Popular Science
When you're a kid, practical gifts are the worst. Sure, you needed those pens for school, but you asked Santa for Nintendo or a Ninja Turtle, not office supplies. They might as well be vegetables. Read the full story
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Scientists Have Expanded the Genetic Code in Bacteria
Futurism
All living things are made up of four genetic bases. Now, scientists have successfully added two synthetic bases that could generate amino acids with groundbreaking medical applications. Read the full story
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From Flipboard Picks, a Flipboard magazine by Flipboard
What makes a documentary "important"? What makes it worth referencing, or remembering, or even watching in the first place? Why, in this time of…
Amazon's Cyber Monday deals include Sony 4K TVs and Sennheiser headphones
The Verge
The final stretch is still ahead; after Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend comes Cyber Monday, a time of massive online-only deals. Tech giant Amazon may have gotten into brick-and-mortar stores... Read the full story
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These are the best Black Friday deals on the internet—updated 12:38
Popular Science
Black Friday starts the night of Thanksgiving, but lasts for days after. Here's what you outta know. Read on. Read the full story
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From Nerds, Geeks, and Gamers, a Flipboard magazine by Jason Burn
Security researchers have raised the alarm for years about the Intel remote administration feature known as the Management Engine. The platform has a…
Scientists are about to test a devastating hypothesis: 2018 will suffer a lot of big earthquakes
Quartz
Every so often, the Earth's rotation slows by a few milliseconds per day. This is inconsequential to the average human, and causes only mild annoyance… Read the full story
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My WiFi router patched a major security problem without me having to do a thing — now I'm a customer for life
Business Insider UK
The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Earlier this month security researchers discovered KRACK, a major Wi-Fi vulnerability that could compromise any router or Wi-Fi enabled device. Microsoft and Apple responded quickly with patches, but patches that still left routers at risk. Out of the blue I received an e-mail from eero, the startup that makes Wi-Fi routers I installed Read the full story
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'It was hair-raising, it was a cliff-hanger,' says Henriques of the 1987 incident. 'We almost didn't make it through.' September 29, 2017 —On an…
From Music, a Flipboard magazine by NPR
Every month, NPR Music asks our friends from public radio stations across the country for the songs they simply can't get enough of — new tracks…
How to Fix WMI Provider Host (WmiPrvSE.exe) High CPU in Windows 10
MobiPicker
Troubled with high CPU usage in Windows 10? If WMI Provider Host is behind the high CPU usage on your PC, you are not alone who is facing this problem. Many users are reporting a spike in their CPU usage on Windows 10 due to WMI Provider Host. In this guide, we will help you fix this issue... Read the full story
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Say goodbye to summer and hello to a bounty of streaming delights. September is somewhat of a transitional month in…
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Granola bars make on-the-go eating efficient, but are they actually healthy? Usually not—even though most people think so. A 2016 New…
Google Just Proved That Monopolies Imperil Democracy, Not Just The Economy
HuffPost
WASHINGTON ― For the past decade, former business journalist Barry Lynn has used his perch at the New America Foundation to warn politicians and the public that a new era of corporate monopolies threatened not only American workers, but also democracy itself. ... Read the full story
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Tumplines and the Benefits of Carrying Weight on Your Head
The Atlantic
People have done it for centuries. Maybe everyone still should. An Object Lesson. Read the full story
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Who was responsible for the violence in Charlottesville? Here's what witnesses say
Los Angeles Times
The clashes that broke out over the weekend at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Read the full story
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What the Google Controversy Misses: The Business Case for Diversity
The Wall Street Journal
The memo written by a Google employee about gender diversity hit a raw nerve in an industry already beset by accusations of sexism and discrimination. Research, meanwhile, has established the business case for diversity. Read the full story
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Discriminatory practices under these laws also include:
DeepMind and Blizzard open StarCraft II as an AI research environment | DeepMind
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The true story of two fatal grizzly bear attacks that changed our relationship with wildlife
The Washington Post
Fifty years ago this month, bears killed two young campers. But it soon became clear that the animals weren't to blame. Read the full story
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Intel Pumageddon: Broadband chip bug haunts Chipzilla's past, present and future
The Register
You can trivially DoS Puma 5 and 7-powered boxes, too Intel says the performance issues that have dogged its Puma 6 gigabit broadband modem chipset also affect the Puma 5 and Puma 7 family.… A Chipzilla spokesperson confirmed to The Register on Tuesday that a TCP/UDP latency issue that makes home and business gateways powered by Puma 6 processors trivial to knock offline is also present in the Puma 5 and Puma 7 lines. This means swapping a Puma 6-based box – such as a Virgin Media Super Hub 3 – Read the full story
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From Best of Exploration, a Flipboard magazine by Expedition Portal
The other day I ran into the proud owner of a well built four-wheel drive. Eager to talk shop, he began to list a few of the numerous…
Intel enters self-driving car race with Mobileye acquisition
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Mobileye brings close relationships with more than two dozen car manufacturers Read the full story
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From Los Angeles Times, a Flipboard magazine by Los Angeles Times
Geological tumult is all around us in the American West, in our vertiginous topography and in our…
3 Things Intel Corp. Earnings Told Us About Its Memory Business
The Motley Fool
Intel provided insights into its production ramp-up of 3D NAND, its timetable for 3D XPoint product releases, and overall memory business profitability on its most recent earnings call. Read the full story
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He would call me late in the night from somewhere on the road, a ghost town in Texas, a rest stop near Pittsburgh, or from Santa Fe, where he was parked in the desert, listening to the coyotes howling. But most often he would call from his place in Kentucky, on a cold, still night, when one could hear the stars breathing. Just a late-night phone call out of a blue, as startling as a canvas by Yves Klein; a blue to get lost in, a blue that might lead anywhere. I'd happily awake, stir up some Nescafé and we'd talk about anything. About the emeralds of Cortez, or the white crosses in Flanders Fields, about our kids, or the history of the Kentucky Derby. But mostly we talked about writers and their books. Latin writers. Rudy Wurlitzer. Nabokov. Bruno Schulz.
"Gogol was Ukrainian," he once said, seemingly out of nowhere. Only not just any nowhere, but a sliver of a many-faceted nowhere that, when lifted in a certain light, became a somewhere. I'd pick up the thread, and we'd improvise into dawn, like two beat-up tenor saxophones, exchanging riffs.
From Knowledge, a Flipboard magazine by Akin Adegoke
... unless you did, then sorry. The first sampling synthesiser would have broken the average person's bank account several times over. Clocking…
Understanding the Constant Dialogue That Goes on Between Our Gut and Our Brain
Science & Technology Research News
Just past midnight on Sept. 26, 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov, a member of the Soviet Air Defense Forces serving as the command-center duty officer for a nuclear early-warning system, faced a decision with unimaginable consequences. Cold War tensions were running hot. The Soviet Union had recently shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, killing... Read the full story
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Federal Appeals Court Issues Historic Ruling In Favor Of Job Protections For Gay Workers
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Don't run and lift weights on the same day if you want a beach body
Daily Mail
Physiological stress and fatigue after a weight training session can last several days, found experts in Queensland, Australia. A 24-hour rest period is needed to avoid impaired endurance. Read the full story
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Debunking What the Health, the buzzy new documentary that wants you to be vegan
Vox
The film on Netflix mischaracterizes what we know about food and disease. Read the full story
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Intel packs a neural network into a USB stick
Gizmag
They may be modeled on the human brain, but neural networks are far better than we are at sorting through huge amounts of data and identifying patterns. Now, to make these powerful AI systems more accessible to smaller-scale developers and businesses, Intel acquisition Movidius is launching the Neural Compute Stick, which packs deep learning algorithms into a standard USB thumb drive... Continue Reading Intel packs a neural network into a USB stick Category: Computers Tags: Artificial Read the full story
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From News on e-books, a Flipboard magazine by Elena Maceviciute
Writing a book is hard. I've written seven books and at some point during each one I had the thought, "There has to be a tool, a piece of…
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Windows 10 giving you trouble? Here's how to boot into safe mode
Digital Trends
Need to troubleshoot a problem with your computer? Here's how to boot into Safe Mode in Windows 10, which will allow you to skirt load drivers and problematic software that may be causing issues. Read the full story
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From Movies & Music, a Flipboard magazine by John Schuster
From Lauren Alaina's wise beyond her years collection to Luke Combs' stellar Number One debut "You can tie her down, you can bottle lightning, but…
How To Backup Data In Windows 10 Using File History?
Fossbytes
Short Bytes: File History is a data backup feature for Microsoft Windows operating system. You can use it to automatically backup files to external, internal or network connected storage and restore them at a later stage. It's visible as an option in the Control Panel. File History was intended to be the successor to the […] The post How To Backup Data In Windows 10 Using File History? appeared first on Fossbytes. Read the full story
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What causes Alzheimer's disease? What we know, don't know and suspect
Biotech in Asia
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, which is an umbrella term used to describe a general loss of memory, thinking skills and other day-to-day functions (such as cooking, paying bills, cleaning and even dressing). A hallmark of Alzheimer's disease is the gradual deterioration of memory. But it is a biological disease, which […] Read the full story
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_- SteveAn honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love" – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
Ideology and action are sometimes connected, but not always. Most people who harbor radical ideas and vio- lent justifications do not engage in terrorism, just as many known terror- ists—even many of those who carry a militant jihadi banner—are not especially pious and have only a cursory understanding of the radical reli- gious ideology they claim to represent.
Forget Freud: Dreams Replay Our Everyday Lives
NPR
Sigmund Freud thought dreams were all about wish fulfillment and repressed desire. But scientists now think they're linked to memory processing and consciousness. And they're often quite mundane. Read the full story
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The iPhone Is 10 Years Old. Here's the Story of Its Birth.
The New York Times
Apple's culture of reverence and secrecy is no match for Brian Merchant in "The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone." Read the full story
The specific multitouch technology that went into the iPhone was pioneered around the turn of the millennium by a man you've almost certainly never heard of named Wayne Westerman. A brilliant engineering Ph.D. at the University of Delaware,Shared from Apple News
Google launches open source system to make training deep learning models faster and easier
TechRepublic
Google's new Tensor2Tensor (T2T) library aims to help businesses and researchers create new machine learning models for translation, parsing, and more. Read the full story
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How Apple is squeezing more photos into your iPhone
CNET
FAQ: Apple's newest iPhone software attempts to move the world out of the JPEG era. CNET decodes the technology. Read the full story
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