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ift.tt/2urlkEr Most of my projects start with this step. All my rough saw beech needed to be strictly treated by my jointer, my miter saw, my planer and my table saw. After all these steps, I finally got some useful…

ift.tt/2Yh5MAy In honor of Pi Day, March 14th (3/14) I wanted to share The Beauty of Pi. Ken Flerlage has created a very cool series of visualizations of the first 5,000 digits of the mathematical constant Pi using Tableau. All…

ift.tt/2PWiO6f When a star exhausts its nuclear fuel towards the end of its lifespan, it undergoes gravitational collapse and sheds its outer layers. This results in a magnificent explosion known as a supernova, which can lead to the creation of…

“Socialism,” snarled The Donald at a recent pep rally of far-right Republicans. And the obedient crowd of Trumpistas snarled back in unison: So-sh’ll-izz-ummm! There you have the entire intellectual content of the GOP’s 2020 re-election strategy under Generalissimo Trump –…

ift.tt/2Wi8MLn What was life like in Sonoma County in 1979?The county was transitioning from a diverse agricultural community to a wine-centric monoculture. With grape and wine … via ift.tt/2TPrHjQ ift.tt/2ALlo82

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ift.tt/2Hfi5rQ Cuckoo SandBox on AWS March 11, 2019   Cuckoo Sandbox: An Introduction From software vulnerabilities to APT groups, there are many areas of cyber research that Check Point Research is involved with. Arguably, one of the most challenging areas…

A research group at NATO’s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence catfished soldiers involved in an European military exercise — we don’t know what country they were from — to demonstrate the power of the attack technique. Over four weeks, the…

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ift.tt/2BRCmzr A formerly moderate, pro-civil rights, pro-abortion rights, reform-minded politician has enabled a president who not only has set back race relations, but has also packed the Supreme Court with conservative, pro-life judges. A senator who once railed against budget…

ift.tt/2ThgV4O Drexler and the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute proposing that artificial intelligence is mainly emerging as cloud-based AI services and a 210-page paper analyzes how AI is developing today. AI development is developing automation of many tasks and…

ift.tt/2SZToGp On a 1987 voyage to the Antarctic, the paleoceanographer James Kennett and his crew dropped anchor in the Weddell Sea, drilled into the seabed, and extracted a vertical cylinder of sediment. In an inch-thick layer of plankton fossils and…

There’s new research on the security of password managers, speficially 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass, and Lastpass. This work specifically looks at password leakage on the host computer. That is, does the password manager accidentally leave plaintext copies of password lying around…

ift.tt/2U8KXF6 Although MWC 2019 officially starts on Monday, Day 0, otherwise known as preview day for the press, has already kicked off in Barcelona. As the biggest conference for the mobile industry, the show is buzzing with products from big-name…

ift.tt/2VkJw6P NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill On Earth, some of 2018’s best dramas including A Star Is Born, Roma, Vice and Green Book will vie for Best Picture at the 2019 Oscars. But in the far reaches of the solar system, a…

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ift.tt/2EsnOrS If you were on social media in 2016, you probably remember the Great Cargo Pocket War. It all started with an innocent article in The Wall Street Journal about how bulky cargo shorts were driving a wedge between people…

ift.tt/2U3WlCh Sixteen-year-old Jorge Alexander Ruiz took off alone in the middle of the night from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to escape pressure to join a gang. Sitting outside the shelter for unaccompanied minors where he was staying in Tijuana, in…

ift.tt/2GXm7nK moncler taps maison valentino’s creative director pierpaolo piccioli for a second time, in the latest instalment of its multi-brand collaborative genius project. moncler took over an entire milan street to showcase the third chapter, which saw piccioli present a…

ift.tt/2Nn7NGx An unusual artifact sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology. Fitted fragments of turquoise, carnelians, and white seashells cover the upper half of the skull. Pine resin binds the decor to the bone, creating a colorful mosaic. Turquoise was…

ift.tt/2TcraYb The squeegee holder (the green part) is composed of 2 plates of very hard plastic (polypropylene probably), you can use hardwood or plywood with no problem i think.I drilled the center axis and inserted 2 bearings : they act…