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Malaria ‘Completely Stopped’ by Microbe

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Malaria is spread by the bite of infected mosquitoes Scientists have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria. The team in Kenya and the UK say the finding has “enormous potential” to control the disease.Malaria is spread by the bite of infected mosquitoes, so…

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Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: First Glance

We are facing some interesting times at work as we are going to start changing our technology stack in the near future. Most of our Oracle processes will be replaced by Python, processing the data stored in parquet files. For indispensable database processes we will change to PostgreSQL. I like Oracle and it has served…

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Why strace doesn’t work in Docker

While editing the capabilities page of the how containers work zine, I found myself trying to explain why strace doesn’t work in a Docker container. The problem here is – if I run strace in a Docker container on my laptop, this happens: $ docker run -it ubuntu:18.04 /bin/bash $ # … install strace ……

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New MacBook Pro 13-Inch

PRESS RELEASE May 4, 2020 Introducing the 13-inch MacBook Pro updated with the new Magic Keyboard, double the storage, and faster graphics performance. Cupertino, California — Apple today updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new Magic Keyboard for the best typing experience ever on a Mac notebook and doubled the storage across all standard configurations,…

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A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship

On a Tuesday afternoon in late April, a small barge set off from Gustavus, Alaska, en route to the world’s most remote Costco warehouse. The 96-foot ship hummed through the choppy waters of the Icy Strait, past vast expanses of wilderness, snow-capped peaks, and breaching whales. Seven hours later, when it reached Juneau, a few…

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Startup financial models – Templates compared for SaaS

As a founder, there comes a time when you need a business plan, complete with financial forecasts, income statements, and fancy graphs that will impress your investors. Don’t build it from scratch – use an existing model.  A financial model allows you to draft financial projections easily, fast, and in a professional manner. A great…

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Cut and paste your surroundings using AR

An AR+ML prototype that allows cutting elements from your surroundings and pasting them in an image editing software. Although only Photoshop is being handled currently, it may handle different outputs in the future. Demo & more infos: Thread ⚠️ This is a research prototype and not a consumer / photoshop user tool. Modules This prototype…

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Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retrospective

by V.R. I am not sure I am such a big fan of reimplementing NetworkManager… – Lennart Poettering’s famous last words, March 2011 10 years ago, systemd was announced and swiftly rose to become one of the most persistently controversial and polarizing pieces of software in recent history, and especially in the GNU/Linux world. The…

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Popcorn Linux

March 2020: Popcorn’s improved distributed shared memory protocol and subsystem has been accepted at Systor 2020! Paper to be available soon. March 2020: Popcorn’s distributed shared memory subsystem, DeX, has been accepted at ICDCS 2020! Paper to be available soon. March 2020:  We were planning to be at VEE/ASPLOS 2020 with a version of Popcorn completely in user-space! Virtual presentation available here. Paper…

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Nvidia AGX Xavier Developer Kit: Refreshed with 32GB of RAM, for $699

NVIDIA® Jetson AGX Xavier™ sets a new bar for compute density, energy efficiency, and AI inferencing capabilities on edge devices.  It’s the next evolution in next-generation intelligent machines with end-to-end autonomous capabilities. A BREAKTHROUGH IN EMBEDDED APPLICATIONS At just 100 x 87 mm, Jetson AGX Xavier offers big workstation performance at 1/10 the size of…

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