Special News: January 2018

Thousands of water stations are being installed to tackle plastic use - with users able to find them via an app.

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Andrew Ng launches $175M AI fund
94 by dsaw | 23 comments on Hacker News.

C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013)
71 by contrarian_ | 41 comments on Hacker News.

Content-aware image resize library
268 by boyter | 44 comments on Hacker News.

Fools and their crypto
113 by rbanffy | 53 comments on Hacker News.

Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble
130 by IntronExon | 48 comments on Hacker News.

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Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
698 by noahl | 93 comments on Hacker News.

Can We Copy the Brain?
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Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
542 by davidbalbert | 212 comments on Hacker News.

ARM immediate value encoding (2014)
87 by JoshTriplett | 23 comments on Hacker News.

Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning
455 by jph00 | 72 comments on Hacker News.

Open Application for YC Growth Program
63 by cbcowans | 19 comments on Hacker News.

Audio Adversarial Examples
108 by moultano | 22 comments on Hacker News.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Branding North Korea’s leadership “depraved,” President Donald Trump told Americans on Tuesday that Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear missiles could “very soon threaten our homeland” and vowed a continued campaign to prevent that.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of the U.S. Congress, who passed new sanctions on Russia nearly unanimously last summer, criticized President Donald Trump on Tuesday for not imposing them, accusing him of being soft on his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

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WUHAN, China (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday that lawmakers would be given official analysis on any Brexit deal before they are asked to approve it, dismissing a leaked document showing the economy would be worse off under all exit scenarios.

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is in talks with the United States on whether to allow U.S. federal air marshals to travel with Taser stun guns on cross-border flights with U.S. airlines, National Security Commissioner Renato Sales said in a TV interview on Tuesday.

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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will begin a joint training program at the Masikryong ski resort in North Korea on Wednesday as had been initially planned, the South's Ministry of Unification said, with a 45-person delegation engaging in a two-day trip.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China rebuffed Taiwan's objections in a deepening row over the opening of new flight paths in the Taiwan Strait, saying on Wednesday that the space separating routes over the waterway was more than is mandated by international standards.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Taliban are openly active in 70 percent of Afghanistan's districts, fully controlling 4 percent of the country and demonstrating an open physical presence in another 66 percent, according to a BBC study published on Tuesday.

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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong boasts glittering skyscrapers, seamless transportation and billion dollar infrastructure projects, but it is struggling with a much more mundane problem: disposing of its trash.

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Wednesday, 31 January 2018