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AI Experts Threaten to Boycott a University Over Reports of Killer Robot Research

Now, you can deploy to Kubernetes Engine from GitLab with a few clicks

Scaling Uber’s Hadoop Distributed File System for Growth

Uber’s Data Infrastructure team overhauled our approach to scaling our storage infrastructure by incorporating several new features and functionalities, including ViewFs, NameNode garbage collection tuning, and an HDFS load management service.

Retro Contest

We’re launching a transfer learning contest that measures a reinforcement learning algorithm’s ability to generalize from previous experience. In typical RL research, algorithms are tested in the same environment where they were trained, which favors algorithms which are good at memorization and have many hyperparameters. Instead, our contest tests an

This Salad Was Grown in Antarctica

Scientists at Germany’s DLR Institute of Space Systems were successfully able to grow eight pounds of greens, 70 radishes, and 18 cucumbers without soil. Temperatures outside reached -6 degrees fahrenheit.

Introducing Stripe Billing

Today, we’re excited to launch Stripe Billing, a new suite of tools to help companies of all sizes automate, optimize, and scale recurring business models. This new product is an evolution of Stripe Subscriptions and adds many new features.

Bring me a shrubbery: How tiny trees might fit in the biofuel future

There’s growing evidence Tesla’s Autopilot handles lane dividers poorly

Thankfully, this crash was different in one important respect: there was a working highway safety barrier in front of the concrete divider. As a result, the crash was much less severe and the driver was able to walk away.

A Former NASA Scientist Almost Lost His Hearing Because of a Toilet Lid

Over 3,000 Google Employees Signed a Letter Demanding Google Leave the ‘Business of War’