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Venezuela Forcibly Converts Pensions into Petro Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL Locking in WebKit How the 0.001% invest Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms A EULA in FOSS clothing? Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better Browsers LEAR – Linux Engine for Asset Retrieval – Concurrent Static Files Server HTTP Systematic Parsing of X.509: Eradicating Security Issues with a Parse Tree Pendulum Waves (2010) Byrne’s Euclid The Walter White of Wichita (2016) Why Design Thinking Works Storing Memories in Your Synapses Few people are actually trapped in filter bubbles. Why do they say they are? Pushback Derails Company That Thrived on Patent Lawsuits The Most Important Software Innovations (2017) Acne vulgaris: a disease of Western civilization (2002) How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New Vue.js and Go example project The New Brave Is 22% Faster Hacking chemical plants for competition and extortion (2015) [pdf] Pixel 3 call quality issues LiveAgent: Over $250K monthly recurring revenue with a spin-off project Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python Netflix’s Movie Blitz Takes Aim at Hollywood’s Heart A Millennial’s Tiny Satellites Are Helping China Advance in the Space Race Show HN: Single-header C++11 HTML document constructor Jered Threatin: A conversation with a false rock god30 heise online News
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Schluss mit VR: IMAX verabschiedet sich von Virtual Reality Browser lahmgelegt: Apple zieht iTunes-Update zurück Umfrage zu guten Vorsätzen 2019: Jüngere wollen Smartphone weniger nutzen HAI 2018: Wenn der Roboter die Kontrolle übernimmt Kampf der Verpackungsmüll-Flut: Ab Januar gelten neue Regeln Verdi ruft im Weihnachtsgeschäft zu Streik bei Amazon auf Erderwärmung senkt Arbeitsleistung eduArdu: Arduino-Konsole, um Programmieren zu lernen Rekord-Raumfahrer Alexander Gerst kommt heim – als Nächstes zum Mond? Schweiz: Nationalrat entscheidet über Revision des Urheberrechts CO2, Daten und Geld: Was bei der UN-Klimakonferenz herausgekommen ist Bauleiter bei Bosch: Verantwortlich für eine Milliardeninvestition mit 30 Jahren Bundesregierung erwägt Kennzeichnungspflicht für Social Bots Elektroautos: Debatte über neue und vorhandene VW-Standorte HAI 2018: Kann man mit einem Roboter diskutieren? Erstes abhörsicheres Quantennetzwerk mit vier Teilnehmern Missing Link: Mit wenigen Klicks zur Weltherrschaft - über effiziente Algorithmen und Fake News Was war. Was wird. Big Brother is loving you. Verzicht auf Huawei-Hardware: Fusion von T-Mobile und Sprint soll erlaubt werden Abgas-Skandal: Baden-Württemberg verklagt Volkswagen Gerichtshof der Europäischen Union untersagt Abgaskompromisse Facebook: API-Bug gab Apps Zugriff auf Bilder von 6,8 Millionen Benutzern Fall Huawei: USA fordern Freilassung von inhaftierten Kanadiern in China Pokémon Go: Direktkämpfe freigeschaltet, Raid-Bosse Lugia und Ho-Oh Plastikmüll-Fänger "The Ocean Cleanup" funktioniert noch nicht Pionier der polizeilichen Informationsverarbeitung: zum Tode von Horst Herold Wo man hinschaut: abstrakte Motive - die Bilder der Woche (KW50) Intels NUCs: Viele Mini-PCs mit fehlerhaftem BIOS-Schutz Tumblr nach Porno-Sperre zurück im App Store Spiele-Engine Unity 2018.3 verbessert den Prefab Workflow30 New Scientist - Space
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Breathing in moon dust could release toxins in astronauts’ lungs Virgin Galactic claims its first successful flight to edge of space We don’t need stars to navigate space – black holes work way better First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world Interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen China is about to launch a mission to explore the far side of the moon Earth may be made up of rocks blasted by gusts of solar wind Revealed: the first ever picture of the sun’s north pole LIGO found four more pairs of black holes, including the biggest yet Astronauts launch in Soyuz rocket for first time since botched takeoff NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu 14 great science and tech books to give as presents this Christmas Space art could be so much more than a shiny satellite in the sky Epic history of light reveals the universe peaked 10 billion years ago Spacecraft to study marsquakes lands on Mars after 7 minutes of terror Don’t miss: tiny patterns, a transgender scientist and a Mars meeting Giant grooves on Mars’s moon Phobos may be caused by rolling boulders NASA has chosen the landing site for its life-hunting 2020 Mars rover There’s an enormous ghost galaxy hiding at the edge of the Milky Way Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star Mystery “space cow” is a weird new type of powerful space explosion Pluto’s weird ridges may be glacial landforms unlike any on Earth Why lichen may be the perfect factories for making rocket fuel on Mars Weather forecasts from alien worlds are in – and it’s wild out there Two new rogue planets that do not orbit stars have been discovered NASA is giving advice to Yuri Milner’s private mission to Enceladus The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on The first detailed look at how Elon Musk’s space internet could work What it’s like to be sucked into a black hole – without dying Review of The First: A gripping and gritty tale of Mars exploration20 Ars Technica
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Central Londoners to be subjected to facial recognition test this week HQ Trivia and Vine co-founder dead at 34 Trump will replace Interior Department Secretary next week No more doubts: Two independent studies confirm LIGO’s Nobel discovery California transit agencies have 21 years to build zero-emissions bus fleets Huawei Watch GT review: When hardware and software don’t mesh Forget Fortnite—my son is still obsessed with Minecraft Signal app to Australia: Good luck with that crypto ban Computing pioneer Evelyn Berezin died this week—she should be remembered KeyForge: The red-hot card game where every deck is unique—and unchangeable Ebola outbreak reaches city of 1 million residents Hyundai finally gives us a price for the 2019 Kona EV—$29,995 Formula E starts season 5 in Saudi Arabia with a faster electric race car “We’re sorry,” Facebook says, again—new photo bug affects millions Get your binge on: Season 3 of sci-fi gem Travelers is out now Discord Store to offer developers 90 percent of game revenues Blizzard shifts developers away from Heroes of the Storm Apple says iOS update will avoid Qualcomm patents, China iPhone ban Nearly 100 Lyft drivers sue, complaining of illegally being paid too little Don’t buy a 5G smartphone—at least, not for a while20 Science – Ars Technica
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Trump will replace Interior Department Secretary next week No more doubts: Two independent studies confirm LIGO’s Nobel discovery Ebola outbreak reaches city of 1 million residents Rocket Report: Virgin soars, Falcon Heavy cores on the go, Astra failure When will electric airliners make sense? Virgin Galactic just flew to 82.68 kilometers—is this space? ULA chief Tory Bruno on competing with Blue Origin, SpaceX rocket landings A look at the Apple Watch’s ECG, from someone who needs it Transparent solar cell turns edge on and generates its own light Russian cosmonauts spend nearly eight hours cutting into their spacecraft What’s eating this 400-year-old painting? A whole ecosystem of microbes Getting Vulcan up to speed: Part one of our interview with Tory Bruno The Sun in its rearview mirror, Voyager 2 is in interstellar space Technical tour-de-force traps positrons Just pee in a cup for bladder cancer detection Super-solid helium state confirmed in beautiful experiment Here’s why China’s launch to the far side of the Moon is a big deal New study gives some handy tips on how to survive on Game of Thrones Eleven researchers publish sharp critique of EPA fuel economy logic Greenland’s melting snow makes new hockey stick (graph)20 Gaming & Culture – Ars Technica
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HQ Trivia and Vine co-founder dead at 34 Forget Fortnite—my son is still obsessed with Minecraft KeyForge: The red-hot card game where every deck is unique—and unchangeable Get your binge on: Season 3 of sci-fi gem Travelers is out now Discord Store to offer developers 90 percent of game revenues Blizzard shifts developers away from Heroes of the Storm Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse just became your must-see December film Spock smiles in the face of danger in new trailer for Star Trek: Discovery S2 Hands-on: Switch’s NES controllers offer unmatched old-school authenticity Epic opens Fortnite’s cross-platform services for free to other devs Doctor Who wraps a solid season with its first female Time Lord Not dusted for good? There’s a sequel in the works for Doctor Strange Doom’s next expansion pack, made by John Romero, will be free—or cost up to $166 Cryptography failure leads to easy hacking for PlayStation Classic New Stranger Things 3 teaser confirms 2019 release, reveals episode titles Ars Technica’s ultimate board game gift guide, 2018 edition New study gives some handy tips on how to survive on Game of Thrones Eight great board games we played at PAX Unplugged Obsidian Entertainment finally announces its Fallout: New Vegas successor At last! Marvel finally drops first trailer for Avengers: End Game15 OSNews
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Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend Windows Server 2019 includes OpenSSH FreeBSD 12.0 released The future of Core, Intel GPUs, 10nm, and Hybrid x86 Linux kernel developers discuss dropping x32 support Archiving C64 tapes correctly How Doug Engelbart pulled off the Mother of all Demos How a major bug in the October 2018 Update slipped past Microsoft Android Emulator picks up support for Fuchsia's Zircon kernel Google Play Services no longer supports Android 4.0 BATAS 8086 assembler written in MS-DOS batch files Goodbye, EdgeHTML A visual defragmenter for the Commodore 64 LG Releases Gram 17 laptop: ultra-thin, 17.3" display Microsoft announces switch to Chromium for Edge12 Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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Wot I Think – Insurgency: Sandstorm A gallery of ways that Gris is beautiful Have you played… Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock? Fortnite melts down the Infinity Blade The RPS Advent Calendar 2018, Dec 16th Stardew Valley creator focusing on content over new game for now The Sunday Papers The RPS Advent Calendar 2018, Dec 15th Priceless Play – 15 December 2018 What are we all playing this weekend? Dishonored 2 and Death of The Outsider murder DRM, add free goodies Subnautica being given away free on the Epic Games Store