Next Hacker International Programming Player Competition (IPPC)
Miami, September 16, 2015
Java Programmers Competition 2016 IPPC: $500,000 cash prizes
SHOW ME YOUR SPEED!
We are already convinced that there are many gifted programmers and ingenious hackers.
Now we want to know...
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The fact that you could see it work as a desktop is weird
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Graphene, an allotrope of carbon, was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov. In 2010, they had been awarded the Nobel...
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Student faces 10 years for Android Malware
Morgan C. Culbertson, a student from Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday admitted in federal court to designing and attempting to promote malware that allowed users to take control of other people’s...
