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1. Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, in jail for life, draws his prison cell
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Ross Ulbricht, the creator of The Silk Road darknet marketplace, is serving a double life sentence plus forty years with no possibility for parole for "money laundering, computer hacking, conspiracy to ...

2. The Galaxy Note10: DeX Integration
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La funzionalità Samsung DeX per Galaxy Note 10/10+ permette di effettuare diverse operazioni collegando lo smartphone al computer con un cavo USB Type-C. The post The Galaxy Note10: DeX Integration appeared ...

3. Life in prison plus 150 years for monster who secretly filmed kids in their bedrooms
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... Police Department said the recordings could fill 12 spindles of compact discs, News 9 reported. Police said that there was child pornography on five of his computers and two of his phones. But it doesn't ...

4. This Linux computer plus router is the size of a ring box
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... format means you can customize your rig from the ground up. Apparently not content with that level of devotion, the good folks at VoCore have gone and made a tiny Linux computer that is impossibly cute, ...

5. FDA to trial innovative computer-assisted heart surgeries this fall
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Starting this fall, the FDA plans to trial an innovative new computational medicine approach to heart surgery with 160 patients in the US. The procedure, called Optimal Target Identification via Modelling ...

6. Chicago will test Samsung's DeX in-vehicle solution in cop cars
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Samsung created an in-vehicle version of its DeX platform in hopes that it can replace the computers cops and first responders have to carry around. Now, the Chicago Police Department has announced that ...

7. Microsoft tests more control for apps that restart with Windows 10
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As much as PCs have changed in recent years, at least one thing has stayed the same: at some point, you'll need to restart your computer. With that in mind, the first of next year's two big Windows ...

8. Kitty: a wonderful early computer animation from Russia (1968)
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... movements created by a computer. (via r/ObscureMedia) Read the rest Read all  ...

9. More than 20 Texas cities and towns have been taken hostage by ransomware
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The American ransomware epidemic shows no signs of slowing, as the confluence of underinvestment in IT and information security and the NSA's reckless stockpiling of computer vulnerabilities means that ...

10. Create your robot army with these Arduino and Raspberry Pi kits
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... app. The Toybox 3D Printer Deluxe Bundle is now $314.99, more than 30% off the original cost. Elecrow Raspberry Pi 3 Starter Kit Raspberry Pi systems are already a great introduction to computers and ...

11. Air travelers entering US face long delays as CBP computers crash
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Air travellers entering the US were delayed on Friday after a computer issue prevented customs officials from processing their immigration information. The CBP is reportedly investigating the problem but ...

12. Penetration tester releases proof-of-concept code for hijacking smart buttplugs
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... app that’s running on a computer. IoT developers have all these newer technologies, like javascript-based applications, working together with these super-low level microcontrollers. They don’t necessarily ...

13. What makes the Mac Mini a great computer?
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When Apple released a refreshed Mac Mini last year, it had been four years since the last iteration. The 2018 update kept the same sleek unibody but included significant spec boots like an eighth-gen Intel ...

14. Video series about the weird mystery of Cicada 3301
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... worth watching. In 2012, a secretive group calling itself 3301 began recruiting for “highly intelligent individuals” online. Candidates had to prove their skills in codebreaking, cryptography and computer ...

15. Chrome OS finally supports virtual desktops
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Chrome OS is adding a mainstay feature that other computer platforms have had for years: virtual desktops. The newly released Chrome OS 76 supports "Virtual Desks" that, like elsewhere, lets ...

16. How much keyboard latency can you take?
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I wrote a while back about why typing on old keyboards feels better: it's because they were simple, low-latency devices interacting with your computer's bare metal. Nowadays, many device instructions end ...

17. Cray is building a supercomputer to manage the US' nuclear stockpile
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Supercomputers are used for everything from mapping weather patterns to developing medicine –- now, they're looking after the nation's nuclear stockpile. The US Department of Energy ...

18. Adobe speeds up Lightroom Classic editing with GPU acceleration
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Adobe has done a good job of using your computer's GPU to speed products like Premiere Pro and Photoshop. However, it hasn't given Lightroom the same love, and with the enormous 60-megapixel-plus ...

19. How to make a replica of the GENIAC Electric Brain from 1955
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Michael Gardi posted instructions for making a replica of the GENIAC ("GENIus Almost-automatic Computer") that was sold in kit form in the 1950s and 1960s for $20. GENIAC consisted of a Masonite back ...

20. Ocelote, supercomputer crea galassie virtuali
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Si chiama Ocelote ed è un supercomputer in grado di generare milioni di galassie virtuali, utili per studiare la nascita e la formazione della Via Lattea. The post Ocelote, supercomputer crea galassie ...

21. Supercomputer creates millions of virtual universes
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How do you understand the development of galaxies when even the younger examples are frequently billions of years old? Simulate as many universes as you can, apparently. Researchers at the University ...

22. An FDNY employee may have compromised the personal information of over 10,000 people
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... it if you believed this to be true. To make sure that those possibly compromised in the breach, they sent out a letter, via snail mail (I mean, you obviously can't trust computers), talking the those who ...

23. Gideon Irving's trippy music video was made in one take without CGI or greenscreen
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Gideon Irving's fantastic video, "Woke Up Looking" was made without computer graphics in just one take. The video below shows how he did it. Here's another wonderful one-take video of Gideon's. It only ...

24. System76's First 4K OLED Linux Laptop Is Now Available to Order
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Unveiled last week, the Linux-powered Adder WS laptop is System76's very first computer to feature a beautiful and vibrant 4K OLED glossy display with true-to-life blacks. Read all  ...

25. Facebook has filed a laughable patent-application for the well-known practice of "shadow banning"
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... gigantic dumpster-fire, and software patents doubly so. First, there's the common practice of filing patents for obvious things and then adding "with a computer" and hoping the patent gets issued. Then ...