In 1975, the USSR actually fired a cannon from an orbiting space station. Forty years later, we finally got a good look at this gun. | Continue reading
Source You and your friend are walking by a magic store and find a trick coin. You have no clue how biased the coin is, and decide that all possible levels of bias are equally likely. In an effort … | Continue reading
Mobile-friendly browser app that lets you explore and create fractals with interactive panning and zooming. | Continue reading
Understanding complex systems (like Bill Gates) is the first step to building them (like Steve Jobs). | Continue reading
Quantitative stable isotope probing and gene expression analyses in anoxic Namibian shelf sediments reveal that representatives of the Asgard candidate phylum Candidatus Lokiarchaeota are capable of homoacetogenesis, a metabolic strategy of high energetic efficiency that may expl … | Continue reading
Wrestling with Moses:How Jane Jacobs Took onNew York’s Master Builderand Transformed theAmerican CityBy Anthony Flint(Random House, 256 pp., $27)For urbanists and others, the battle between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs was the great titanic struggle of the twentieth century. Like … | Continue reading
Simple tweaks like Batched Updates and Non-Blocking SPI can have a huge impact on rendering performance… | Continue reading
ONPASSIVE provides a ready-made solution to this problem by making available a complete ecosystem with all the marketing tools, services and more, integrated under one umbrella to help marketers grow their business and earn simultaneously. | Continue reading
I see your pie charts and lists of almost 100 books read this year, Martin Weller. And it is impressive. My summary will not take a spreadsheet, as I just today finished one book for 2019, this one… | Continue reading
Following a Delhi High Court order in a case related to missing children, the Delhi Police had acquired Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) software in March 2018 as a tool to identify lost and found boys and girls by matching photos. | Continue reading
Dispositional mindfulness (i.e., its trait-like and universal component) and the Big Five personality dimensions empirically overlap on both the aggre… | Continue reading
Compact early fruiting tomato and groundcherry plants suitable for urban farming are produced using genome editing. | Continue reading
Celebrating 26 Years Online | Continue reading
Rusts type system requires that there only ever is one mutable reference to a value or one or more shared references. What happens when you need multiple references to some value, but also need to mutate through them? We use a trick called interor mutability: to the outside world … | Continue reading
The 3DS is reaching end of life but has not revealed all its weaknesses yet. This talk will go through the process of reverse engineering... | Continue reading
Laser trains may sound like an invention of the 2030s, but they're already a real tool for the Long Island Rail Road. | Continue reading
A look at the practical benefits of writing descriptive commits | Continue reading
“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” | Continue reading
I create tutorial-style videos about electronics, computer architecture, networking, and various other technical subjects. | Continue reading
The Week: "We Americans tend to remember historical eras through the lens of the presidency. But McConnell, more than most Senate leaders, served as a gatekeeper for what the presidents of his era have been able to accomplish — and he might be the most powerful and significant se … | Continue reading
Maybe you’re going through Boot Camp, or you’re participating in the 100 Days Of Code Challenge — where you learn a new concept or write a bit of code each day for 100 days. Whatever it is you’re doing, you’ve finally arrived at the point where you can call yourself a self-taught … | Continue reading
Create command line tools your users love | Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Motorola is bracing for the future by returning to the past. The company is adapting its historical flip-phone design for a smartphone with a foldable screen. Samsung, Huawei and others have phones that fold like a... | Continue reading
Hello, I am Vamshi Vangapally, CEO and Co-founder of BearTax. We built a platform for cryptocurrency traders and accountants to help them consolidate trades and calculate taxes without heavy lifting. BearTax offers 2 SaaS products, Beartax of traders and an accounting suite for a … | Continue reading
From 36,000ftImagine this, you get to travel the world, you get to ... | Continue reading
The 2010s saw huge advancements across science and technology. Relive the best moments with our definitive ranking of the decade | Continue reading
Loud chewing, persistent telemarketers, and pop-up ads drive our readers bonkers. This author co-wrote a book on why humans experience annoyance. | Continue reading
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The cities and suburbs on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay are home to 2.7 million people, a world-class University of California campus and bedroom communities for... | Continue reading
A celebration of our national parks featuring illustrious art from the Fifty-Nine Parks print series. | Continue reading