Post Overview
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Current Event
8 years ago
+19 19 0US laptops-on-planes ban now applies to just one airport, ends soon
Meanwhile the TSA found 78 guns at US airports last week, 32 with a round chambered
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Analysis
8 years ago
+38 38 0 x 1How Google Wants To Rewire The Internet
When all of your business is driven by end users coming to use your applications over the Internet, the network is arguably the most critical part of the infrastructure.
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Analysis
8 years ago
+20 20 0 x 1The Ultimate, Plain English Guide To Blockchain You Have Always Been Looking For
Unlike every other post on the internet, instead of first defining the Blockchain, we’ll understand the problem it solves.
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Text Post
8 years ago+15 15 031 Days
Today marks two years since joining Snapzu and it must be said what a positive move it was to join. I've only recently started contributing in any meaningful manner but the time just sitting, reading, observing and enjoying was well spent.
I'll also be hitting 100/100 for maintaining a 7 day login streak (probably) tomorrow so out of 731 days I'll have been logged in for 700. I'm now wondering just what I was doing for those other 31 days.
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Analysis
8 years ago
+18 18 0When your body becomes eligible for an upgrade - BBC News
At MIT’s Biomechatronics Lab work is being done to replace limbs - and maybe one day upgrade them.
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Analysis
8 years ago
+23 23 0I've studied Larsen C and its giant iceberg for years – it's not a simple story of climate change
Enormous Antarctic icebergs are a rare but natural occurrence.
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Current Event
8 years ago
+12 12 0Panda diplomats, smuggled relics and a nuclear-weapons treaty
The week in science: 7–13 July 2017.
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Current Event
8 years ago
+18 18 0US ranked worst healthcare system, while the NHS is the best
An analysis of 11 wealthy nations, including Australia and Canada, has found that the US healthcare system is the worst, particularly for fair and easy access.
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Current Event
8 years ago
+25 25 0Robotic landers could start mining the moon as early as 2020
Moon Express has just unveiled plans for three lunar expeditions. The firm aims to mine moon rocks to sell on Earth, and vague laws mean it probably can
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Current Event
8 years ago
+23 23 0GCHQ can crack end-to-end encryption says Australian A-G
Antipodean not-backdoors plan will mirror UK Investigatory Powers Act, ensure law of land trumps laws of mathematics
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Analysis
8 years ago
+18 18 0Why are planets round?
Well, part of it is because when objects get particularly massive, nature favors that they assume the most efficient shape
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Current Event
8 years ago
+18 18 0Hey, remember that monkey selfie copyright drama a few years ago? Get this – It's just hit the US appeals courts
And, surprise, surprise, everyone's still baffled
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Current Event
8 years ago
+44 44 0 x 1Giant iceberg splits from Antarctic - BBC News
A block of ice a quarter the size of Wales calves from the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Analysis
8 years ago
+15 15 0Subatomic science: 10 things we know (and don’t know) about the fabric of the universe
Freaky facts and as-yet unsolved mysteries surrounding the workings of the cosmos.
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Current Event
8 years ago
+19 19 0G20 calls for 'lawful and non-arbitrary access to available information' to fight terror
Or in other words, access to encrypted messages
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Analysis
8 years ago
+14 14 0Quantum Computing For The Mildly Curious
It’s exciting, but not for the reasons most tech journalists think it is.
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Analysis
8 years ago
+18 18 0The sixth mass genesis? New species are coming into existence faster than ever thanks to humans
The planet has seen five 'mass extinctions' over the past half billion years, but each was followed by an explosion in biodiversity.
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Analysis
8 years ago
+11 11 0Producing flexible behaviours in simulated environments | DeepMind
In three new papers, we demonstrate about how simulated agents can master sophisticated motor control - a hallmark of physical intelligence, and a crucial part of AI research. Specifically, we show ways to produce flexible and natural behaviours that ...
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Expression
8 years ago
+14 14 0Body Painting Illusions - The latest creations of Hikaru Cho (20 pics)
A selection of the latest body painting illusions by the Japanese artist Hikaru Cho
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Analysis
8 years ago
+23 23 0Cybersecurity: The cold war online
Steven Aftergood weighs up an analysis of the fierce conflict destabilizing the Internet.




















