Irene Triplett collected $73.13 from the Department of Veterans Affairs, a benefit for her father’s military service in the Civil War.

Repository containing evidence of police brutality during the 2020 George Floyd protests - 2020PB/police-brutality

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Gilad Bracha recently posted an article "Bits of History, Words of Advice" that talks about the incredible influence of Smalltalk but bemoans the fact that:




...today Smalltalk is relegated to a small niche of true believers.  Whenever…

Police app stops working hours after PD requested videos of “illegal activity.”

Zoom Video Communications Inc. demonstrated that paying customers have flocked to its virtual-meeting software, transforming the once-niche appmaker into a popular communications service and positioning it to benefit as the nature of work, school and life…

Posted in r/google by u/anti-hero • 2,301 points and 186 comments

A library of reinforcement learning components and agents - google-deepmind/acme

Parser, code model, interpreter and navigable browser for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 v2 sources and virtual image file - rochus-keller/Smalltalk

Twisted light beams could boost telecommunications data rates

Zoom’s CEO says he won’t encrypt free calls so Zoom can work more with law enforcement:

“Free users for sure we don’t want to give that because we also want to work together with FBI, with local law enforcement in case some people use Zoom for a bad purpose…

Lenovo is moving to certify the full workstation portfolio for top Linux distributions from Ubuntu® and Red Hat® – every model, every configuration.

It is thought that the wheel was invented more than five thousand years ago, yet modern machine learning tools were only developed in the past few decade...

Project overview, general documentation, and white papers. The CWA development ends on May 31, 2023. You still can warn other users until April 30, 2023. More information: - corona-warn-app/cwa-doc...

I noted here, I believe, that recently my dSLR, my Nikon d750, basically crapped itself, most likely from a faulty mirror mechanism. This wasn’t entirely a surprise to me — it had devel…