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Attacking your monolithic database with a swarm—a whole swarm!
Loosely coupled microservices and swarms of databases are the new blob-busting hotness.
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Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to trust the machine
KITT-like auto-cruise and auto-steer are equal parts mesmerizing and disturbing.
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OneCore to rule them all: How Windows Everywhere finally happened
Microsoft promised developers that Windows would run anywhere. This summer, it finally will.
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Why Google’s monopoly abuse case in Europe will run and run
A brief history of a dominant Google's soul-searching competition battle in the EU.
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How tainted drugs “froze” young people—but kickstarted Parkinson’s research
Decades later, trials of stem cell treatments are about to begin.
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Car crashes, curses, and carousing—the story of the second Soviet in space
The cosmonaut corps had its own cadre of cowboys.
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I have suicidal depression—and board games saved my life
Cardboard bits returned color to a monochrome life.
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One small stip(ulation) for NASA, one giant burden for exploration
A Senator who dislikes SpaceX seems to find home state rockets more to his liking.
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Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge
Canonical to offer 5 years of support, but Snap packages mean latest features factor in.
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One year after Alexa: Amazon’s Echo has found a small but smart niche
Review: Alexa helps me begin and end my day, but I don't depend on her (yet).
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High-tech cardboard: The rise of digitally augmented board games
Three designers talk about the pros—and cons—of tech-powered tabletop titles.
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Uncharted 4 is slickly ridiculous action gaming at its best
Review: Cinematic climb-and-shoot action feels familiar on the PS4.
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Death by GPS
Why do we follow digital maps into dodgy places?
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From Paintbox to PC: How London became the home of Hollywood VFX
All it took was talent, fortuitous insight, and 30 years of relentless tech advances.
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Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar
We witnessed The Donald's foray into "university" education.
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Even at 1.0, Vivaldi closes in on the cure for the common browser
Review: Ultra customization, clever tab management breaks from Chrome, Firefox.
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