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Central Park Detective Retires With the Horse He Rode in On

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By COREY KILGANNON from NYT New York https://ift.tt/2H6efAz

New top story on Hacker News: Citizens allowed to sue on behalf of Lake Erie when it’s being polluted

Citizens allowed to sue on behalf of Lake Erie when it’s being polluted 90 by howard941 | 42 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript

Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript 193 by apo | 94 comments on Hacker News.

Bank customers hit by dozens of IT shutdowns

Customers suffer regular operational and security incidents, BBC analysis of new data reveals. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2EBNpib

UK car output driven down by plunging demand in China

The motor industry has been hit by "myriad challenges" including declining demand in key markets. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2TlmIWV

Online gambling: Labour promises tougher limits

Limits on how much gamblers can stake online would be introduced under Labour, Tom Watson says. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2SvMljl

Post-Brexit migration rules disastrous, say manufacturers

The UK's main manufacturing body lambasts plans for a minimum salary threshold for skilled migrants. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2BW8LoJ

Airlines reroute to avoid Pakistan

The closure of Pakistan's airspace has prompted several airlines to reroute or suspend services. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2U9VX51

Booker Prize finds new funder in billionaire Sir Michael Moritz

Venture capitalist Sir Michael Moritz steps in after the literary award's previous sponsor withdrew. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2ICydoL

'Everything awesome' at Lego as it grows again

The Danish toymaker set out plans to open 80 stores in China as growth rebounded from last year. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2NwNXZv

Trump urged to stay tough over China trade deal

Congress said the Trump administration should hold out for a substantive deal with China. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2XmPRjX

Metro bank shares slump on cash call

The challenger bank's shares see another double-digit fall after it unveils a fundraising plan. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2TjoTKM

Ted Baker shares tumble after profit warning

Shares in the fashion chain fall over 11% after the fashion chain says profits will be lower-than-expected. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2UaIx94

Selfridges bans sale of exotic skins

Animal welfare activists say 'hats off to Selfridges' for removing the products from its shelves. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2NApAdy

Can Georgian wine win over global drinkers?

As Georgia aims to boost wine exports, can its unique but sometimes challenging bottles find more fans? from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2BUcgMe

Why are more and more car companies teaming up?

Daimler and BMW are the latest to join forces as new technologies threaten to upend the car industry. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2tDg93M

Will the BBC and ITV's BritBox be a hit or a flop?

The BBC and ITV-run service has been more than a decade in the making. Is it too little, too late? from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2Ubj4w0

Pakistan and India Inch Toward Military Conflict, 2 Indian Warplanes Downed, Pilots Captured

Pakistan shot down two Indian warplanes Wednesday in the disputed region of Kashmir and captured their pilots, its military said, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals to a level unseen in 20 years.    from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2T1Sjh8

Billy Graham’s Grandson Breaks Down the Best ‘Proof of God’

Evangelist Will Graham comes from a well-known family line of famous preachers. His grandfather, the late Rev. Billy Graham, and his dad, Franklin Graham, have both made a monumental impact across the globe. Will Graham is following in their footsteps as he preaches, teaches and carries on the family legacy of spreading the Christian gospel. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2T8qDXV

Univision's Jorge Ramos details detainment, expulsion from Venezuela

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Univision anchor Jorge Ramos shared details in TV interviews Tuesday night on how Venezuelan authorities detained his team during an interview Monday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2T0QGjZ via IFTTT

Was the media biased against the Covington students?

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Conservatives accuse media organizations of trafficking in stereotypes that Trump supporters are bigots. Two recent incidents have strengthened conservatives’ belief that liberal journalists are implacably opposed to Donald Trump and his supporters: the 18 January encounter between a group of Kentucky students and a Native American activist on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and the claims by Jussie Smollett that he had been attacked by hoodlums shouting racist and anti-gay slurs. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2T9HY2Y via IFTTT

Trump and Kim Are Meeting One-on-One at This Historic Hanoi Hotel

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The $300 a night Metropole is redolent with colonial history from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2EAJhid via IFTTT

The Latest: Pittenger doesn't plan to run again for old seat

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on a new election being held for a North Carolina congressional seat after the state elections board reviewed evidence of ballot fraud (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tJ6Krw via IFTTT

Wells Fargo Sees ‘Possible’ Legal Losses Rising by $500 Million

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The higher estimate for “reasonably possible” legal losses -- essentially a worst-case scenario -- shows risks grew as the bank and authorities examined abuses in recent months and discussed potential penalties. The change stems from “a variety of matters,” including probes of its sales to retail customers, Wells Fargo wrote Wednesday in an annual regulatory report. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SwIna9 via IFTTT

Miami-Dade cop caught on tape slapping suspect

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Two Miami-Dade Police officers are facing charges after surveillance video appeared to show one sergeant slapping a teenager who was handcuffed and another trying to destroy evidence. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GSKALU via IFTTT

Nuclear Nightmare: India and Pakistan are on the Brink

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Whatever happens next rests in the fates of political decisionmakers in India. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2H77EFT via IFTTT

Justice Department loses appeal to block AT&T-Time Warner merger, won't appeal again

The Justice Department, which lost its latest attempt to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger, will not appeal the U.S. District Court of Appeals ruling. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ViCz62 via IFTTT

La Tragicommedia è Finita

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Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a play in which two men sit around and wait for someone who never shows up, has been claimed by just about everyone: Freudians, Christians, existentialists.Who’s right? I haven’t a clue.But I have lived, all of us have lived, through a similar tragicomedy (a word Beckett added to the subtitle for the English version of his play). We’ve been waiting for Mueller. And waiting.For some, the waiting is the hardest part. But by historic standards, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been working at a blistering pace. Kenneth Starr’s investigation into the Whitewater scandal wasn’t fully closed down until 2001. It started in 1994. The average running time for special investigations is 904 days. Tuesday marked the 650th day since Mueller was appointed.Most independent counsels take a year to file their first criminal charges, if they file any at all. Mueller hit that milestone a little more than five months in, and he has racked up more than 30 other indictme

Train swapping: North Korea's Kim reliant on Chinese for summit transport

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It was the second time Kim had arrived for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in transport provided by the Chinese, underscoring just how much the young leader's sudden flurry of international engagements has depended on his larger, more powerful neighbor. When Kim arrived in Singapore last year for his first, historic summit with Trump, it was in an Air China jumbo jet bearing the Chinese flag. With the exception of two summits with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on the border between the two Koreas, every one of Kim's unprecedented summits with China's President Xi Jinping and now the second summit with Trump have depended on trains provided by the Chinese. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XnbkZW via IFTTT

At least 4,500 abuse complaints at migrant children shelters

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of accusations of sexual abuse and harassment of migrant children in government-funded shelters were made over the past four years, including scores directed against adult staff members, according to federal data released Tuesday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GOuzGQ via IFTTT

Hollywood Madam: Want to stop human trafficking? Legalize consensual sex for money.

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Why would a wealthy and powerful man like Robert Kraft allegedly pay for sex from women at a Florida strip-mall massage parlor? Don't overthink it. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2VrmA5T via IFTTT

An All-Electric Un-SUV from Volvo? Sort of—Meet the Polestar 2

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Volvo's experimental arm builds a Tesla fighter loaded with tech. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Es8lqH via IFTTT

Boeing unveils unmanned combat jet developed in Australia

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Boeing Co on Wednesday unveiled an unmanned, fighter-like jet developed in Australia and designed to fly alongside crewed aircraft in combat for a fraction of the cost. The U.S. manufacturer hopes to sell the multi-role aircraft, which is 38 feet long (11.6 meters) and has a 2,000 nautical mile (3,704 kilometer) range, to customers around the world, modifying it as requested. The prototype is Australia's first domestically developed combat aircraft since World War II and Boeing's biggest investment in unmanned systems outside the United States, although the company declined to specify the dollar amount. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2U5AUk6 via IFTTT

Nigeria's opposition to launch legal challenge after Buhari wins second term

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Nigeria’s opposition leader is to mount a legal challenge after President Muhammadu Buhari secured a second term in an election marked both by apathy and violence that claimed hundreds of lives. The electoral commission officially declared Mr Buhari the victor of Saturday’s poll, saying he had won 56 percent of the vote, against 41 percent secured by his main challenger, Atiku Abubakar. But Mr Abubakar insisted he had been cheated of the chance to lead Africa’s most populous state after a conspiracy between the commission and the president’s ruling party. “It is clear that there were manifest and premeditated malpractices in many states which negate the results announced,” Mr Abubakar, a former vice president, said as he announced that he would file a legal petition to overturn the vote. Mr Buhari, a former military dictator who returned to office as a civilian in 2015, insisted that the election was “free and fair”, claiming the vote was “another milestone in Nigeria’s democratic deve

Detailed Photos of the 2019 McLaren 720S Spider

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Ub3GzJ via IFTTT

Elon Musk tweets SEC is 'broken' after it says his tweets violate their deal

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War breaks out again between the two as he has to explain himself to a judge. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GPhflG via IFTTT

Key Asia-Europe Air Route Closed as India-Pakistan Tensions Rise

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A Singapore Airlines Ltd. flight to London was diverted to Dubai Wednesday to refuel before heading to its final destination, the carrier said in an email. Qantas Airways Ltd. had to change the flight path for its London-Singapore service, which is scheduled to arrive at the Asian city-state later Thursday, adding an extra 20 minutes to the journey. Thai Airways International Pcl scrapped all 10 flights from Europe to Bangkok as well as those to Pakistan that were due to depart late Wednesday and early Thursday, it said on its website. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NARvKk via IFTTT

Australian Cardinal Pell convicted of molesting 2 choirboys

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating Mass, dealing a new blow to the Catholic hierarchy's credibility after a year of global revelations of abuse and cover-up. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2EfRqHD via IFTTT

Woman brutally mauled to death by her own 2 dogs while playing in front yard

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A South Carolina woman died on Thursday night after her two dogs turned on herwhile she was playing with them in the front yard of her Greenville home from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2TaT7Qf via IFTTT

Steven Avery attorney: 'We won!'; court to hear new evidence in 'Making a Murderer' case

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Kathleen Zellner, attorney for "Making A Murderer" subject Steven Avery, tweeted "We won!" after the Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Nwk6jM via IFTTT

U.S. disrupted Russian trolls on day of November election: report

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The U.S. military disrupted the internet access of a Russian troll farm accused of trying to influence American voters on Nov. 6, 2018, the day of the congressional elections, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The U.S. Cyber Command strike targeted the Internet Research Agency in the Russian port city of St. Petersburg, the Post reported, citing unidentified U.S. officials. The group is a Kremlin-backed outfit whose employees had posed as Americans and spread disinformation online in an attempt to also influence the 2016 election, according to U.S. officials. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2VmLCTu via IFTTT

Trump-Kim summit: North Korea leader arrives in Vietnam to red carpet reception ahead of talks

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Kim Jong-un has rolled into Hanoi in an armoured limousine ahead of talks with Donald Trump in the Vietnamese capital. The North Korean leader had earlier received a red-carpet reception amid tight security following a 65-hour, 2,500-mile journey from Pyongyang in a bulletproof train. After disembarking at Dong Dang rail station, close to Vietnam’s border with China, he walked past a guard of honour before climbing into his personal Mercedes limousine on Tuesday morning. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NvwFvy via IFTTT

Peugeot Is Officially Leading the Return of French Cars to the U.S.

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PSA will reportedly return to selling Peugeots here by 2026, for the first time since it exited the North American market in the early 1990s. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SYYRNz via IFTTT

Las principales noticias del jueves

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By Por ELDA CANTÚ from NYT Universal https://ift.tt/2BW5Hsq

A Sports Hijab Has France Debating the Muslim Veil, Again

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By ELIAN PELTIER and AURELIEN BREEDEN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2H7rG36

Huawei’s Cutest Fans in China? A Troupe of Dancing Children

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By RAYMOND ZHONG from NYT Technology https://ift.tt/2XuNo7c

The Cutest Animal on Instagram Is Possibly in Your Trash Can

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By GRAY CHAPMAN from NYT Style https://ift.tt/2TilY57

Word + Quiz: skein

By THE LEARNING NETWORK from NYT The Learning Network https://ift.tt/2tJV87i

A New Editor, and a New Take on Brexit, for a Brawny London Tabloid

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By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM from NYT Business https://ift.tt/2UdgaqC

Michael Cohen, Kim Jong-un, Kashmir: Your Thursday Briefing

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By PENN BULLOCK and MELINA DELKIC from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/2UegBB6

What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Better Things’ and ‘The Guilty’

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By GABE COHN from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/2EmarZ1

Beal, Wizards Roll to 125-116 Victory Over Nets

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2Udak8G

Trudeau’s Ex-Attorney General: ‘Veiled Threats’ Were Made to Drop Case

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By IAN AUSTEN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2IHuDKp

Patient Shoots Doctor at Florida Veterans Affairs Hospital, Officials Say

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By JULIA JACOBS and MATT STEVENS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2EEhde9

On Politics: Michael Cohen Testifies

By Unknown Author from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2XroCEN

Buoying Trump’s ‘Inflated’ Wealth: $4 Billion in ‘Brand Value,’ Cohen Says

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By RUSS BUETTNER and SUSANNE CRAIG from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2NwHJZC

Cohen’s Testimony Is a Test for Both Parties in the Year Ahead

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By MICHAEL D. SHEAR from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2TkjCCB

White Man Who Shot Black Men After Hurricane Katrina Dies Days After Sentencing

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By MATT STEVENS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2IQ7upc

Quotation of the Day: Confessed Liar Meets With Ardent Partisans to Set the Record Straight

By Unknown Author from NYT Today’s Paper https://ift.tt/2Tg1ry9

Tampa Bay and Calgary Keep Streaks Alive by Beating Rangers and Devils

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2tGgTFh

Warriors Host Survivors of the Parkland School Shooting

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2IFx3ZG

Corrections: February 28, 2019

By Unknown Author from NYT Corrections https://ift.tt/2BWfWNr

Blue Jays

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By DEB AMLEN from NYT Crosswords & Games https://ift.tt/2EAoHOX

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Little Automatic Racing Game in WebGL with Three.js and Oimo.js

Show HN: Little Automatic Racing Game in WebGL with Three.js and Oimo.js 3 by hvidevold | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed (2012)

Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed (2012) 43 by curtis | 30 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Red Flags in Software Developer Job Descriptions

Red Flags in Software Developer Job Descriptions 93 by webappsecperson | 86 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%

Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5% 93 by doppp | 56 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: C Macro Magic

C Macro Magic 54 by sagartewari01 | 29 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: From Alex’s Family

From Alex’s Family 134 by zoeysaurusrex | 11 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Formally Specifying UIs (2018)

Formally Specifying UIs (2018) 90 by meistro | 14 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Productivity tricks in Visual Studio

Productivity tricks in Visual Studio 27 by bobblywobbles | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Fundamental Algorithms III

Fundamental Algorithms III 98 by tu7001 | 10 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: What you need to know before you join a startup

What you need to know before you join a startup 59 by eriktrautman | 19 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Beyond Local Pattern Matching: Recent Advances in Machine Reading

Beyond Local Pattern Matching: Recent Advances in Machine Reading 58 by andreyk | 10 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose

Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose 286 by minimaxir | 82 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The art of writing eBPF programs

The art of writing eBPF programs 97 by leakybucket | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Why Drugs That Work in Mice Don't Work in Humans

Why Drugs That Work in Mice Don't Work in Humans 8 by apsec112 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Dow Jones’ watchlist of 2.4M high-risk clients has leaked

Dow Jones’ watchlist of 2.4M high-risk clients has leaked 152 by smallgovt | 36 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: Fuzzbuzz (YC W19) – Fuzzing as a Service

Launch HN: Fuzzbuzz (YC W19) – Fuzzing as a Service 146 by evmunro | 76 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, We’re Everest, Andrei and Sabera, the founders behind Fuzzbuzz ( https://fuzzbuzz.io ) - a fuzzing as a service platform that makes fuzzing your code as easy as writing a unit test, and pushing to GitHub. Fuzzing is a type of software testing that generates & runs millions of tests per day on your code, and is great at finding edge cases & vulnerabilities that developers miss. It’s been used to find tens of thousands of critical bugs in open-source software ( https://ift.tt/2fW71Bd ), and is a great way to generate tests that cover a lot of code, without requiring your developers to think of every possibility. It achieves such great results by applying genetic algorithms to generate new tests from some initial examples, and using code coverage to track and report interesting test cases. Combining these two techniques with a bit of randomness, and running tests thousands o

New top story on Hacker News: Alloy*: A Higher-Order Relational Constraint Solver

Alloy*: A Higher-Order Relational Constraint Solver 157 by Cieplak | 9 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Hacker News Meetups

Hacker News Meetups 107 by throway88989898 | 81 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Julia on Google TPU: Shakespeare RNN

Julia on Google TPU: Shakespeare RNN 190 by KenoFischer | 32 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)

Immersive Linear Algebra (2016) 1036 by reverse | 113 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill

Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill 285 by nyc111 | 140 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: We Need Chrome No More

We Need Chrome No More 855 by kaishin | 460 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Taking census of physics

Taking census of physics 18 by lainon | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (2015)

Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (2015) 10 by brudgers | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Reading in an Age of Catastrophe

Reading in an Age of Catastrophe 28 by longdefeat | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Slang: language mechanisms for extensible real-time shading systems (2018) [pdf]

Slang: language mechanisms for extensible real-time shading systems (2018) [pdf] 10 by ingve | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: France’s new high-speed trains

France’s new high-speed trains 77 by Osiris30 | 92 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Lost in Math?

Lost in Math? 129 by ernesto95 | 55 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base

Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base 134 by maheshs | 103 comments on Hacker News. I have just started working with one of the client who have existing nodeJS code which they build in last 3 years. Is there any guiding principle which is beneficial while working with existing code base?

The phone-makers bringing buttons back

Several phones at MWC are sporting physical keyboards rather than relying on touchscreens. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2Ny5u3g

Iris-scanning phone pitched at refugees

UK firm IrisGuard hopes to help refugees access banking and services with its device. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2Vto2Vr

Pokemon: Nintendo announces two new games, Sword and Shield, for the Switch

This is the first 'real' Pokemon game to appear on consoles, following successful titles on handheld and mobile. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2Sva4jZ

OneWeb launches mega-constellation pathfinder satellites

A London-based start-up's multi-billion-pound project to take the web everywhere gets off the ground. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2Uawqso

Energizer 'thick boi' phone gives 50 days of battery life

Could chunky smartphones be the future for our pocket tech? This huge new handset has tech experts talking. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2EACg0M

Momo challenge: Police advise over 'freaky game'

The "game" on WhatsApp has been accused of encouraging children to self-harm. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2Xqd7gL

Word + Quiz: inculcate

By THE LEARNING NETWORK from NYT The Learning Network https://ift.tt/2tD3IVH

China Shifts, and Detroit’s Big Bet Goes Sour

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By KEITH BRADSHER and AILIN TANG from NYT Business https://ift.tt/2XsV8pV

What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Whiskey Cavalier’ and ‘Free Solo’

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By GABE COHN from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/2U7BBJG

Las principales noticias del miércoles

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By Por ELDA CANTÚ from NYT Universal https://ift.tt/2tEyWeU

Knicks Reserves Key 108-103 Win Over Magic

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2H4Hx2n