aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. Notice: aerc is a work in progress and some of these features are not working yet. Some of its more interesting features include:

On May 10, we announced the limited beta of GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that makes it easy to publish public or private packages next to your source code. Today we’re excited to announce that we’ll be adding support for Swift packages to GitHub Package Registry. Available on GitHub, Swift Package Manager is a single cross-platform tool for building, running, testing, and packaging your Swift code.

An unofficial census conducted by more than 100 local people over a period of six years found that the Maré includes 660 bars, 307 beauty salons, 138 supermarkets, 69 computer stores, 21 ice-cream shops and 8 dental offices. The unofficial census, led by Dalcio Marinho, a geographer, and Eliana Sousa Silva, the founder of Redes, had many more and reached 93% of Maré residents. The data created by the mapping have been shared with Google, and now the Maré’s streets and businesses are visible online and recorded by the city government.

Use the BackgroundTasks framework to keep your app content up to date and run tasks requiring minutes to complete while your app is in the background. Register launch handlers for tasks when the app launches and schedule them as required. The system will launch your app in the background and execute the tasks.

The first product we launched was analytics and performance monitoring – think “NewRelic for Video” – used by major video streaming companies like PBS, Vimeo, CBS Interactive, and the New York Times to monitor and improve billions of streams. In early 2018, we launched Mux Video, a simple API to video hosting, encoding and streaming – think “Stripe for Video” – which uses our performance data, machine learning, and just-in-time encoding for unmatched video quality and efficiency. Our founders previously started (and sold) Zencoder, an early leader in cloud video technology.

If you’re using a bash profile, such as to set environment variables, aliases, or path variables, you should switch to using a zsh equivalent. zprofile:

You can also move some settings from a bash profile to a zsh profile without modification. zsh recognizes a different set of prompt specifiers than bash and has a cleaner syntax for specifying colorized output, eliminating the need to use complex ANSI escape sequences.

Use DriverKit to create device drivers that the user installs on their Mac. Drivers built with DriverKit run in user space, rather than as kernel extensions, for improved system security and stability. Develop your driver with DriverKit, and package it in an app that uses the SystemExtensions framework to install and upgrade the driver on the user’s Mac.

This faction launched a competing version of the protocol with a higher block size limit of 128 MB on November 15, 2018, leading to a contentious hard fork that split the chain into Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV. Source: BreakerMag.The Bitcoin SV hard fork is interesting in that it involved not only an initiative to roll back Bitcoin Cash’s protocol changes, but also an attempt, by some members of the community, to effectively wipe Bitcoin Cash out by taking all of its hash power. nChain’s Craig Wright explicitly stated that he and other Bitcoin SV supporters intended to use their mining hash power to 51%-attack the Bitcoin Cash chain.

You may have heard of the exploits of Canuck, a hand-raised crow from Vancouver, Canada, that was caught making off with a knife from a crime scene in a McDonalds parking lot earlier this year. He’s simply attracted to people and their objects, says Bergman, whose close relationship with Canuck began after the bird’s release. As Jennifer Campbell-Smith, a behavioral ecologist from ‎Binghamton University in New York, writes, the idea of wild crows preferring shiny objects over others is actually a myth:

“The thing is, stories about crows collecting shiny things are anecdotal, and not observed by people who watch crows constantly and study them . . . Are they particularly attracted to shiny objects, or obsessed with them?

Where Aquinas argued for the certainty of a Creator, an immortal soul, and eternal salvation as based on scripture, Lem concerned himself with the uncertain future of intelligence and technology throughout the universe, guided by the tenets of modern science. Most surprising of all, in subsequent conversations I confirmed my suspicions that among the masters of our technological universe gathered there in San Francisco to forge a transhuman future, very few were familiar with the book or, for that matter, with Lem. Considering a planetary civilization this way, Lem posits a set of feedbacks between the stability of a society and its degree of technological development.