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I just deployed one of these on my home network, and man is it nifty!     Source: Pi-hole®: A black hole for Internet advertisements – curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | …

Whether your transcendent state involves a church, nature, or a stadium full of sports fans, it appears to have the same effect on the brain. Source: Columbia and Yale scientists …

Source: The Secret Reason that Development Teams Struggle to Deliver On Time, On Budget, or On Scope – 7pace Blog

Microsoft paid a lot for GitHub, because it had to pay directly for access to developers. It doesn’t have the leverage of users the way that Apple does on the …

After a long dispute over how to produce more revenue with ads and data, the messaging app’s creators are walking away leaving about $1.3 billion on the table​ Source: Behind …

If a forest is burning and we don’t know what’s responsible, does it have a cause? Source: The Math of Causation Puzzle | Quanta Magazine

What did you do with your long weekend? Source: This Dude Just Set The World Record for Tallest Waffle Stack | Extra Crispy

No amount of scientific explanation or sociopolitical theorizing is going to console a grieving mother. Source: Opinion | What Religion Gives Us (That Science Can’t) – The New York Times

As global software R&D keeps growing at a healthy clip, Microsoft appears eager to use both M&A and organic investments to strengthen its ties with developers. Source: Why Microsoft’s $7.5-Billion …