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Scientists proved long ago that the Internet is, in fact, composed of 98.7 percent cats. Yet why cats -- whom evolution equipped with space-detecting whiskers -- insist on squeezing themselves into impossibly tight places is still a mystery.
A really entertaining mystery...
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The snake dangles 49 feet (15 meters) off the ground, tail entwined around a branch. Suddenly, the animal rears up and launches, flinging its body toward the forest floor.
In other reptiles, the leap would be suicidal, or at least an invitation for broken...
Building applications that are responsive and can exploit parallel hardware poses an important challenge. In particular, enabling applications to execute various tasks in parallel can be difficult if those tasks exhibit read and write conflicts. Revisions are forked and joined much like...
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If you've spent any time on C9 over the years, then you've probably met some of the people from the RiSE team in Link Removed and are familiar with at least some of the great technologies they've developed. RiSE, which stands for Research in Software Engineering, is a rock star research group...
Several times each year Microsoft's board of directors get together and talk, and several times per year I wonder what they actually do, what they talk about, and how they operate. I got a chance to sit down with board memberLink Removed to talk about these things as well as his background as a...
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Human and Robots: Visions of the Future
The future is not written yet and who knows weather robots are dangerous or not. What is for sure is that humans, being the curious beings, will develop new advanced generations of robots. Robots and other high-performance inventions have always been...
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1 Avoid smearing yourself in stale breadcrumbs unless absolutely necessary.
2 If threatened by a duck, climb a tree. Ducks, usually excellent climbers, refuse to share trees with anything else.
3 Carry a large automatic weapon with you whenever walking...