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_sunshine_on Mount Athos, the “Autonomous Monastic State” of Greece (2016)

You can get by with English, but you won't understand the service (which is in the monastery's main language, e.g. Greek/Russian/etc).

_sunshine_on '42 Knees in One Day': Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shooting Gaza Protesters

I can only wish "imagine yourself in the shoes of the protester before making a decision" would be added to the training.

_sunshine_on Swiss cybersecurity startup Cyberhaven raises over $2M to secure sensitive docs

Also: http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2016/07/camb...

_sunshine_on Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (2012)

Moving massive buildings was quite common in Romania during the communist regime, to make room for large boulevards: https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/29b7pi/moving_...

_sunshine_on The Dotty experimental compiler for Scala now bootstraps

Please see the comment above: even though the main compiler is in maintenance and stabilization mode, innovation has happened in Scala in the form of independent projects, driven by people in Martin Odersky's lab.

_sunshine_on The Dotty experimental compiler for Scala now bootstraps

A lot of work in 2.11 has gone in stabilizing the compiler (aka bug fixing) and the backend (the JVM bytecode generator). Unfortunately this is not very visible work, but it had to be done to maintain compatibility with Java 8 lambdas.

As for the new things, they are mainly library-based and compiler plugins, so the scalac compiler remains stable, and new features are self-supporting. Some examples:

* Scala.js (http://www.scala-js.org/)

* Scala.meta (https://github.com/scalameta/scalameta)

* Pickers and spores (https://speakerdeck.com/heathermiller/on-pickles-and-spores-...)

* Scala offheap (https://github.com/densh/scala-offheap)

* RRBVector (https://github.com/nicolasstucki/scala-rrb-vector)

* ScalaBlitz (https://scala-blitz.github.io/)

* Miniboxing (http://scala-miniboxing.org)

Also, I should mention the theoretical work on the DOT type system, which is a sound and more expressive type system to be used for the Scala programming language (compatible with the old type system, as it's more expressive, but also sound -- disallowing any incorrect code).

Regarding Typesafe, they took over releases and maintenance, and did a good job at that. Yet Martin Odersky himself and his team at EPFL are the main drivers for innovation, including dotty and all the projects listed above (which were all developed at EPFL, see http://lamp.epfl.ch).

_sunshine_on Creating a realistic 3D face avatar from selfies

Use a simple phone camera to make realistic 3D models of your face, including wrinkles and face expressions. Pretty neat technology :)

_sunshine_on Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

Too little too late.