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Online romance scammers stole more hearts (and money) in 2020 than 2019

Vox

In 2020, the amount of money people in the US lost to romance scams, which usually start online, surged 50 percent from the year before, jumping from just over $200 million in 2019 to more than $300 million, according to the Federal Trade Commission. I mean, they copied my picture into their driver’s licenses, into passports.

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Protein design pioneer David Baker on why sharing code is key to building biotech startups

GeekWire

Commercial customers pay a licensing fee, while academics access the Rosetta code for free — and build and improve on it. A deep learning tool from Google’s DeepMind to predict how proteins fold hit the field in 2020, followed by a similar tool from the IPD. Both won Science magazine’s 2021 Breakthrough of the Year award.

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Ten Reasons to Use Picos for Your Next Decentralized Programming Project

Phil Windley

Summary: Picos are a programming model for building decentralized applications that provide significant benefits in the form of abstractions that reduce programmer effort. I didn't start out to write a programming language that naturally supports decentralized programming using the actor-model, is cloud-native, serverless, and databaseless.

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Q&A with Fred Hutch’s new chief data officer on building a data ecosystem at an institutional scale

GeekWire

He develops tools to help understand massive-scale genomic and biomedical data and has helped generate online learning programs that have enrolled more than 8 million people. And so we started to conceive how could we build a program that would bring people from the community into the data enterprise at Hopkins.

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Game Gear Micro review: peak Sega

The Verge

But nostalgic Sega fans in 2020 are not normal consumers. There are lots of ways to play Game Gear games if you really want to, whether it’s through the 3DS Virtual Console or less official means like the countless open-source emulator handhelds out there. Other games have had easy modes or cheat codes programmed in.

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Uncovering the power of top-notch LLMs

Dataconomy

A diverse tapestry of participants, ranging from imposing corporate giants to ambitious startups, and extending to the altruistic open-source community, is deeply engrossed in the exciting endeavor to innovate the most advanced large language models. This open-source chatbot, an alternative to ChatGPT, is now accessible free of charge.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software. Vamosi: So, open source software and more testing. They just take a picture of a license or they take a selfie of themselves, or how does that actually work?

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