Russel T Davies’s mini series It’s A Sin serves as the perfect snapshot into London’s gay scene in the 1980s, while exposing the harsh realities of the decade’s rising AIDS epidemic Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2266281-its-a-sin-review-a-series-that-will-tug-on-your-heartstrings/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Singapore Becomes First Country To Use Facial Verification For a National ID Service
“Singapore will be the first country in the world to use facial verification in its national identity scheme,” reports the BBC: The biometric check will give Singaporeans secure access to both private and government services. The government’s technology agency says it will be “fundamental” to the country’s digital economy. It has been trialled with a bank and is now being rolled…
Stet!, the Hot New Language Game
The game Stet!, a spinoff of the book “Dreyer’s English,” is an excellent way to prepare for a copy-editing test and pairs well with a gin-and-tonic. Mary Norris, writing for The New Yorker: Nerdsday fell on a Tuesday this year, and I invited a friend over for a doubleheader: a round of Stet!, the new language game based on “Dreyer’s English,”…
In-Person DEF CON 28 Event Is Canceled
Annual Las Vegas hacker gathering DEF CON has officially called off its physical conference for this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Register reports: In what was pretty much a foregone conclusion, the organizing team today said the in-person event would not be held in 2020. It had been slated to take place in August. This comes after the more…
Coursera para Todos: Aprendizaje gratuito en línea durante COVID-19
Por Giovanni Dubois, Christian Angulo, y Mario Chamorro – parte del equipo de Iberoamérica en Coursera Mientras cada uno de nosotros hemos sido impactados por el COVID-19, esperamos que puedan encontrar ánimos en la comunidad de Coursera. Queremos que sepan que no están solos, y estamos aquí para ayudarles en todo lo que podamos. Durante […]
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Locate Cassiopeia the Queen
An earlier name for Cassiopeia was Cassiopeia’s Chair. A legend from ancient Greek mythology explains why. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/cassiopeia-is-shaped-like-an-m-or-w…
Facebook Has a Neural Network That Can Do Advanced Math
Guillaume Lample and Francois Charton, at Facebook AI Research in Paris, say they have developed an algorithm that can calculate integrals and solve differential equations. MIT Technology Review reports: Neural networks have become hugely accomplished at pattern-recognition tasks such as face and object recognition, certain kinds of natural language processing, and even playing games like chess, Go, and Space Invaders. But…
Blade Runner Actor Rutger Hauer Dies Aged 75
ikhider writes: Breukelen, Amsterdam born actor, Rutger Hauer, who played Roy Batty in the 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner and improvised the “tears in the rain” dialogue as his android character died, has too finally passed away last Friday after an illness. His funeral was held on Wednesday, July 24th. Hauer starred in TV since 1969 and then went on to…
Suzanne Collins has written a Hunger Games prequel set to come out in 2020
Source: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/6/22/18701159/suzanne-collins-hunger-games-prequel…
The Case Against Breaking Up Big Tech Companies
This week The Street ran a new article arguing that “Breaking Up Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook Is Not the Solution”: The Microsoft anti-trust case twenty years ago showed that judges are reluctant to break up companies even when there are definite signs of market abuse… Technology is a better solution to create competition. Things such as open-source software have made…