www.wired.com
These New Tricks Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos—for Now
1,749 words | 6 minutes | Tuesday 4pm | Favourited
For weeks, computer scientist Siwei Lyu had watched his team’s deepfake videos with a gnawing sense of unease. Created by a machine learning algorithm, these falsified films showed celebrities doing things they'd never done.
medium.com
test && commit || revert
565 words | 2 minutes | Tuesday 4pm | Favourited
As part of Limbo on the Cheap, we invented a new programming workflow. I introduced “test && commit”, where every time the tests run correctly the code is committed.
www.theverge.com
Waymo’s paid driverless taxi service could launch next month, says report
269 words | 1 minute | Tuesday 4pm | Favourited
Waymo is reportedly planning to take the next step towards offering a commercial driverless car service in early December, according to an unnamed source who spoke to Bloomberg.
www.washingtonpost.com
Quitting Instagram: She’s one of the millions disillusioned with social media. But she also helped create it.
2,058 words | 7 minutes | Saturday 5pm
On the evening of Sept. 26, Bailey Richardson logged in to Instagram for the last time. Richardson’s decision isn’t novel: 68 percent of Americans have either quit or taken a break from social media this year, according to the Pew Research Center.
www.sfchronicle.com
Tech workers seeking an edge on peers turn to all-meat 'carnivore diet'
1,385 words | 5 minutes | Tuesday 4pm
As a meat-loving child, Ryan Parks cried on the way home from a video rental store when his parents said, as a joke, they were becoming vegetarian. It came as little surprise when Parks, now 31, told his folks he’d begun a “carnivore diet” back in July.
blogs.msdn.microsoft.com
A preview of UX and UI changes in Visual Studio 2019
1,314 words | 4 minutes | Tuesday 7am
Over the years, we’ve learned that sharing the evolution of Visual Studio, with you – our users – early and often helps us to deliver the best possible experience for our community.
www.bristol247.com
The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes opens in Bristol
363 words | 1 minute | Saturday 5pm
A bell rings. A shout goes up.
www.mountaingoatsoftware.com
Estimating with Tee Shirt Sizes
209 words | 1 minute | Friday 1pm
I occasionally encounter the use of t-shirt sizes (Small, Medium, Large, or so on) in use as estimating units by teams. T-shirt sizes are an OK approach to getting started with relative estimating, but they suffer from two severe weaknesses: They aren't additive.