New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have investigated the nature of the gamma-ray burst GRB 190114C. | Continue reading
Zorin OS 15 Lite is a stylish Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It's designed for low spec computers and uses the Xfce desktop by default. | Continue reading
The many twists and turns of the Defense Distributed case, plus a sordid sidebar | Continue reading
How Flexport uses RuboCop cops to programmatically enforce Rails Engine isolation. | Continue reading
From idea to launch to where it’s at today. Including all the numbe... | Continue reading
Quantum computers could crack the codes that secure the world’s digital information but racing to a solution could create more threats, according to Dr. Deborah Frincke. | Continue reading
In an effort to benchmark deep learning on smartphones in the Android ecosystem, researchers from the ETH Zurich Computer Vision Lab last year developed an AI Benchmark application to measure the A… | Continue reading
Apple sent me a MacBook Pro 16-inch version and even, at first sight, it looks bigger than my 15-inch MacBook Pro 2019 model. You can see the size difference when you stack the 15-inch version on t… | Continue reading
In the wake of news that Microsoft Teams now has over 20 million active daily users, Slack says it has greater engagement. | Continue reading
“Such a strong signal has never been measured in ground-based gamma ray astronomy—this is the first time." | Continue reading
Porsche is finding out that it is quite difficult to produce an all-electric vehicle. The German automaker announced that the Taycan, its first all-electric car, is facing some production delays. After unveiling the Taycan in September, the company quickly announced the start of … | Continue reading
Yan Blanco, a freelance 3D artist in São Paulo, Brazil has quite cleverly transformed adorable pop culture icons into creepy, exhausted looking creatures | Continue reading
Having helped transform the music industry, Ek and content chief Dawn Ostroff set their sights (and your ears) on spending hundreds of millions on exclusive podcasts and recruiting Jordan Peele, Mark Wahlberg and the Obamas in a race for scale with Apple and Amazon. | Continue reading
Writing a faster wc utility in Go | Continue reading
Even though the character is a big hit with pretty much everyone, don't count on seeing The Mandalorian Baby Yoda toys on shelves before Christmas. | Continue reading
Christine Ro in JSTOR Daily: Urban Dictionary, as you may know, is a crowdsourced website where anyone can suggest a new word—or a new definition of a word—years before establishment lexicographers catch on. It was founded in 1999 by computer science student Aaron Peckham to make … | Continue reading
A lovely countercultural invitation to savor the unpurchasable joys with which the world is strewn. | Continue reading
Today Apple has launched new versions of its Smart Battery Case for the latest iPhone models, the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max, which are available to order now from the company’s website with November 25 delivery, which is the same date the case will be available in local s … | Continue reading
Christine Dell’Amore in National Geographic: The tiny insects can orient themselves to the bright stripe of light generated by our galaxy, and move in a line relative to it, according to recent experiments in South Africa. “This is a complicated navigational feat—it’s quite impre … | Continue reading
Technical founders share stories and advice about how software engineers can stand out from the applicant pool. | Continue reading
I help write technical documentation and one feature I've been writing about this year that has really stood out is the Typed Object Model (or Typed OM). | Continue reading
Link to: https://rambo.codes/personal/2019/11/20/apple-has-locked-me-out-of-my-developer-account.html | Continue reading
Record labels, car brands, video game consoles, '80s action figures and more | Continue reading
An enzyme that makes the male sex hormones has unravelled a fresh clue about how snail shells come to be curly. | Continue reading
Sean Carroll in Preposterous Universe: Changing technologies have always affected how we produce and enjoy art, and music might be the most obvious example. Radio and recordings made it easy for professional music to be widely disseminated, but created a barrier to its creation. … | Continue reading
Astronomers have confirmed the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are being born at its core. | Continue reading
Scientists are predicting a rare meteor outburst this week that may be brief but incredibly intense. | Continue reading
My third post about typography in sci-fi has been gestating for a while now. Indeed, it’s been slowly taking shape – you might say it’s been forming itself inside of me – for really qui… | Continue reading
What would the world look like if we stored the economic value of our public goods? | Continue reading
In this article we see how to build a Gallery app with Phoenix LiveView and implement an automatic slideshow with the help of :timer. | Continue reading
Cody Kommers in Quillette: Republicans are traditionally hostile to what they call government “hand-outs.” This is not because they believe people shouldn’t get what they need. Rather, conservatives believe that people should get what they need in the most efficient way possible. … | Continue reading
Ok – so maybe the ‘gold standard’ that Andreas Klinger called my office in this tweet may be overstating it a bit. But I did get a lot of questions and requests to write-up a small post on some of the details of the office and considerations on how to build it. So this article is … | Continue reading
Also: Ride-hailing cars are turning into high-tech billboards, and Berlin wants to freeze rents for 5 years. | Continue reading
A study from McMaster University has shown that traditional ways of learning anatomy remain superior to those that rely on digital media. | Continue reading
A card reader for small businesses made from recycled ocean plastic has been unveiled by financial technology firm iZettle. | Continue reading
A three-dimensional computer model enables scientists to quickly determine which genes are active in which cells, and their precise location within an organ. A team led by Nikolaus Rajewsky, Berlin, and Nir Friedman, Jerusalem, has published the new method and their insights gain … | Continue reading
Nomadic Labs has shared that the French Army has been utilizing Tezos to validate its judicial expenses for its cybercrime division. | Continue reading
A biweekly tour of the ever-expanding cartographic landscape. | Continue reading
Love Christmas? Making Christmas treats is one of my family's favorite traditions! Lots and lots of treats, to be exact! Here are over 40 recipes to try! | Continue reading
With so many streaming services battling it out, it's going to take more than content to win the war. The Disney+ subtitles give the Mouse House an edge. | Continue reading
And… if I may be frank, kind of a boring episode. | Continue reading