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http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sugar-industry-buried-evidence-links-cancer-heart-disease-half-century/all/ The US government has only recently updated its health guidelines to advise people to cut out a lot of sugar from their diets, but as highlighted in two recent studies, the sugar industry has been aware of its dangers for at least half a century. It’s worth remembering that plenty of industry research is →

https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/11/announcing-tensorflow-lite.html?m=1 Google has announced TensorFlow machine learning for Android and iOS devices: “we’re happy to announce the developer preview of TensorFlow Lite, TensorFlow’s lightweight solution for mobile and embedded devices! TensorFlow has always run on many platforms, from racks of servers to tiny IoT devices” TensorFlow already supports mobile and embedded deployment of models through →

Old classic: →

https://www.edn.com/design/analog/4421567/Simple-circuit-enables-oscilloscope-art?utm_content=buffer4a139&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer I built the circuit from this EDN article. I could not find exactly right component values from my lab, so I used 180 pF capacitor and 41 mH inductor instead.  I “powered” the circuit with 1 kHz 7Vpp square wave from signal generator. Then I got this nice graphics on digital oscilloscope screen in XY →

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/22/permissionless_data_slurping_google/ Somebody else than just your mobile operator gets to know where you are: According to an old Chinese proverb: “When a wise man points at the Moon, an idiot looks at his finger.” Google may have been hoping that you were examining a finger, not reading a Quartz story yesterday, which reveals how Android phones send →

http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/5-tips-machine-learning-success-outside-silicon-valley  This article has a few concrete suggestions for those hearing about the machine learning efforts in Silicon Valley, but who work elsewhere. →

A solid-state relay (SSR) is an electronic switching device that switches on or off when a small external voltage is applied across its control terminals. Packaged solid-state relays use power semiconductor devices such as thyristors and transistors. Here are some SSR videos worth to watch: What is a Solid State Relay? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbQiRM9p0j0 Solid State Relay →

https://gbhackers.com/owasp-top-10-2017-released/ Open Web Application Security Project(OWASP) released new Top 10 Most Critical Web Application Security Risks list. With the new release, they have completely refactored the methodology of categorizing risks. →

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/an-alarming-number-of-sites-employ-privacy-invading-session-replay-scripts/ If you have the uncomfortable sense someone is looking over your shoulder as you surf the Web, you’re not being paranoid. A new study finds hundreds of sites—including microsoft.com, adobe.com, and godaddy.com—employ scripts that record visitors’ keystrokes, mouse movements, and scrolling behavior in real time… →

https://techcrunch.com/gallery/10-of-the-most-funded-startups-to-fail-in-2017/ Some startups rise and many startups fall when things do not go as planned. 2017 has seen some prominent startups go under. Together these 10 companies raised a combined $1.7 billion from venture capitalists and banks. →