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A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”

Electric, self-flying, vertical takeoff taxis are coming to New Zealand

The Military-Industrial Complex Roots of GPS

The story of the Navstar Global Positioning System starts in 1973, when the US Department of Defense approved funding for the technology, and the system was built out in bits and pieces up until 1995.

Open Source Neural Network Synthesizer

NSynth Super is part of an ongoing experiment by Magenta: a research project within Google that explores how machine learning tools can help artists create art and music in new ways. Technology has always played a role in creating new types of sounds that inspire musicians—from the sounds of distortion to the electronic sounds of synths. Today, advances in machine learning and neural networks have opened up new possibilities for sound generation.

Cloudflare JavaScript Workers are $0.50 per million requests

Exactly one year ago today, Cloudflare gave me a mission: Make it so people can run code on Cloudflare’s edge. At the time, we didn’t yet know what that would mean. Would it be container-based?

A cliff that changed our understanding of time

A rocky, remote outcrop in Scotland inspired the realisation that the Earth was millions of years old – and led Charles Darwin to his theory of evolution.

Gitkube – Deploy to Kubernetes Using Git Push

Ideal for development where you can push your WIP branch to the cluster to test. Reference implementation for writing git-based automation on your server. Fork this repo and create your own CRD + controller + git remote hook that can do things on the Kubernetes cluster.

Study Reveals Brain Mechanisms That Allow “Iceman” Unusual Resistance to Cold

The Next Big Thing in Aging? A “Hit-And-Run” Approach to Killing Harmful Cells

How I implemented iPhone X’s FaceID using Deep Learning in Python