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Melissa Unleashes

Melissa Unleashes

1999

The first e-mail virus to cause widespread damage and one of the fastest spreading viruses in history, Melissa was released into the wild on an early Friday morning and within three days would infect between 100,000 and 250,000 computers around the world. While the virus did not directly cause any damage, the sheer volume of e-mail that it generated crashed many corporate *cough* Microsoft *cough* e-mail servers.

Stories Published in 2025

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#NONLINEARSOLVE.JL

Modular Nonlinear Solvers: The Power of Composable Building Blocks in NonlinearSolve.jl

Linearization Technology

Linearization Technology

March 26, 2025

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#NONLINEARSOLVE.JL

What Are the Special Capabilities of NonlinearSolve.jl?

Linearization Technology

Linearization Technology

March 26, 2025

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How to Deploy a Serverless API With AWS SAM CLI & GitHub Actions

March 26, 2025

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Frontend Testing for Busy Engineers: A Guide

Iaroslav Sobolev

Iaroslav Sobolev

March 26, 2025

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Will AI Start Running Businesses for Us?

March 26, 2025

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The Translation Revolution: How LLMs Are Cutting 90% of Translation Costs

Eyal Yoli Abbas

Eyal Yoli Abbas

March 26, 2025

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#PRIVACY-POLICY

Want to Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy? Here's How

March 26, 2025

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

Here's What Your AI-Generated Code Is Not Telling You

March 26, 2025

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Giorgi Shonia: “Crypto Platforms Need an Overhaul. Here’s How We Do It”

March 26, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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What Is a Vertical Saas?

March 26, 2024

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Plaintiffs Call for Remedies Against Apple's Unlawful Monopolization in Smartphone Market

March 26, 2024

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Apple Faces Allegations in Wisconsin: Accused of Antitrust Violations Impacting Consumers

March 26, 2024

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New Jersey State Enters Legal Fray: Alleges Apple Violated Antitrust Laws with Monopoly Maintenance

March 26, 2024

Understand the Exclusionary Conduct Powering Apple's Smartphone Monopoly

March 26, 2024

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United States Alleges Apple's Monopolization of US Smartphone Market Violates Sherman Act

March 26, 2024

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DOJ Accuses Apple of Anticompetitive Conduct in the Smartphone Market

March 26, 2024

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United States Slams Apple for Sherman Act Violation

March 26, 2024

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Examining Jurisdiction, Venue, and Commerce in Apple's Antitrust Saga

March 26, 2024

Stories Published in 2023

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VOYAGES FOR THE MUSCOVY COMPANY

Richard Hakluyt

Richard Hakluyt

March 26, 2023

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A STRANGE DISCOVERY

Garrett P. Serviss

Garrett P. Serviss

March 26, 2023

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#SCIENCE-FICTION

GREAT SCENES ON THE MOON

Garrett P. Serviss

Garrett P. Serviss

March 26, 2023

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#RURITANIAN-ROMANCE

THE CAPTURE

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

March 26, 2023

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MAN OR MONSTER?

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

March 26, 2023

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THE THIRD SIGN

Garrett P. Serviss

Garrett P. Serviss

March 26, 2023

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#SCIENCE-FICTION

THE EVENING SKY AT THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX

Garrett P. Serviss

Garrett P. Serviss

March 26, 2023

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#SCIENCE-FICTION

THE EVENING SKY AT THE SUMMER SOLSTICE

Garrett P. Serviss

Garrett P. Serviss

March 26, 2023

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The Queen's Story

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

March 26, 2023

Stories Published in 2022

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Changing Async/Await to Promises.all to Speed Up API Calls in Node.JS

March 26, 2022

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Meet Solid: A Lightweight JavaScript UI Library that is Gaining in Popularity

March 26, 2022

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Getting started with React Native for Windows & macOS

Gorrion Software House

Gorrion Software House

March 26, 2022

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3 Must-learn JavaScript Concepts to Master Before Learning React

March 26, 2022

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Introducing a New, Lightweight WYSIWYG HTML Editor That Fits Any Technology Framework

March 26, 2022

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#WEB-DEVELOPMENT

Easy Windows Subsystem for Linux(WSL) Setup to get you Building Apps in Minutes

March 26, 2022

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How to Immediately Update Components Based on User Interaction with React/Redux

March 26, 2022

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#FRONT-END-DEVELOPMENT

Going From Zero to Transpiling your First App in TypeScript

March 26, 2022

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A Beginner's Guide to HTTP - Part 3: Requests

March 26, 2022

Stories Published in 2021

Stories Published in 2020

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Is Cardano the Ethereum Killer?

Dr. Julian Hosp

Dr. Julian Hosp

March 26, 2020

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#QUANTUM-COMPUTING

Quantum Programming: Getting from 0 to 1 using Cirq

March 26, 2020

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Margin Trading: What You Don't Think About Today Will Bite You Hard Tomorrow

March 26, 2020

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Dependency Injection to Make Your Code Testable [A How-To Guide]

March 26, 2020

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#MACHINE-LEARNING

Flax: Google’s Open Source Approach To Flexibility In Machine Learning

March 26, 2020

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Blockchain Use Cases: Cutting Through the Hype

March 26, 2020

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Solid PR Strategies through COVID-19 Crisis

March 26, 2020

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Lowering The Electricity Costs Of Mining Bitcoin [A How-To Guide]

March 26, 2020

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

7 Sneaky Ways Hackers Are Using Machine Learning to Steal Your Data

March 26, 2020

Stories Published in 2019

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Lower Your AWS Lambda Bill by Increasing Memory Size— yep!

March 26, 2019

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#DECENTRALIZED-EXCHANGE

Exclusive Look into The First Exchange Built on the Lightning Network

March 26, 2019

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Journalism Apocalypse and Tech trends with Christina Warren of Microsoft

March 26, 2019

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Discover the 7 Best Books to develop effective Java Unit Tests

March 26, 2019

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How to Successfully Set Tasks and Boost Your Development Team’s Productivity

March 26, 2019

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#HACKERNOON-TOP-STORY

4 Strategic Ways To Use Blockchain To Promote Business Productivity In 2019

Daniel Moayanda

Daniel Moayanda

March 26, 2019

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#PURPOSE-BRANDING-ROI

Purpose-Driven Brands See a 3x Return on Investment

Henrique Dubugras

Henrique Dubugras

March 26, 2019

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#COMPUTER-SCIENCE

How to Pass a Programming Interview

Charlie Treichler

Charlie Treichler

March 26, 2019

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“Bankers Rounding” for Smart Contracts

Anthony Akentiev

Anthony Akentiev

March 26, 2019

Stories Published in 2018

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#CLOUD-COMPUTING

A Look Beyond the Basics of Cloud Database Services: What’s Next for DBaaS?

March 26, 2018

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Functional JavaScript: Function Decorators Part 2 #JavaScript

March 26, 2018

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#VIRTUAL-REALITY

The ((very) near) future of our augmented biology

Muffie Waterman

Muffie Waterman

March 26, 2018

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Take Back Your Data: An Interview with the CEO of Datum

March 26, 2018

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#MACROECONOMICS

Winter (Inflation) is Coming

March 26, 2018

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The Dating Game

Jennifer Greenberg

Jennifer Greenberg

March 26, 2018

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Dear Mark Zuckerberg,

Christian Stewart

Christian Stewart

March 26, 2018

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Weekly Top 5 Questions About Making a Profit with Crypto — 10KQA Challenge

March 26, 2018

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Build a Serverless Production-Ready Blog

Mohamed Labouardy

Mohamed Labouardy

March 26, 2018

Stories Published in 2017

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Harbor — secure shelter for your Dockers from VMWare

March 26, 2017

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Middleware: THE core of node.js backend apps

March 26, 2017

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Got an idea for a product? What to do next.

Poornima Vijayashanker

Poornima Vijayashanker

March 26, 2017

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Why I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors

March 26, 2017

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#SOFTWARE-TESTING

Regression testing on the cloud

March 26, 2017

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Amber Rudd is Wrong About Encryption

March 26, 2017

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Bringing Xamarin into the Enduro Scene

March 26, 2017

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76% of high-performance employees say trade mastery, not money, most important in career decisions.

March 26, 2017

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Service Worker Testing Made Easy

March 26, 2017

Stories Published in 2016

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Industry 4.0 For Dummies

Matteo Talmassons

Matteo Talmassons

March 26, 2016

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