September 2017 Archive
661.
LimeSDR Mini – An open, full-duplex, USB stick radio for femtocells and more (hackaday.com)
662.
Tanzania becomes the latest country to use Zipline drones for medical deliveries (iafrikan.com)
663.
Unearthed near Hadrian’s Wall: lost secrets of first Roman soldiers (theguardian.com)
664.
The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons (nextplatform.com)
665.
Safari no longer supported by Spotify (community.spotify.com)
666.
S&P Cuts China’s Credit Rating, Citing Risk from Debt Growth (bloomberg.com)
667.
BOOM v2: an open-source out-of-order RISC-V core (www2.eecs.berkeley.edu)
668.
The Struggle with Where the Sidewalks Won't Go (bittersoutherner.com)
669.
Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation (bloomberg.com)
670.
How Big Banks Became Our Masters (nytimes.com)
671.
The bad new politics of big tech (buzzfeed.com)
672.
MongoDB has filed to go public (techcrunch.com)
673.
iPhone 8 Plus: The best smartphone camera we’ve ever tested (dxomark.com)
674.
Western Digital Ships 12 TB WD Gold HDD: 8 Platters and Helium (anandtech.com)
675.
Why we started CoreOS (coreos.com)
676.
APFS – A Backup Software Developer’s Perspective (macdaddy.io)
677.
Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Women Less Than Men (nytimes.com)
678.
What should follow the web? (blog.plan99.net)
679.
Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly (blog.acolyer.org)
680.
The Man Behind Windows PowerShell (heavybit.com)
681.
Microsoft R&D grows to 8k people in massive bet on artificial intelligence (geekwire.com)
682.
New oscillator system in Zenith mechanical watches (hodinkee.com)
683.
Z3 – The Zork CPU (opencores.org)
684.
Bitcoin Tumbles as PBOC Declares Initial Coin Offerings Illegal (bloomberg.com)
685.
Cost goals met, the DoE is moving on to address grid reliability in solar (arstechnica.com)
686.
Some Were Meant for C: The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language [pdf] (cl.cam.ac.uk)
687.
Snapchat’s Influencers Are Fleeing to Instagram for Money (bloomberg.com)
688.
How Python does Unicode (b-list.org)
689.
Redesigning Python's named tuples (lwn.net)
690.
Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership (papers.ssrn.com)