I'm sure at some point you've had to draw some boxes and arrows to describe the high level view of how a system works. But what are those boxes and arrows called? We often use... | Continue reading
By monitoring social media, scientists can monitor outbreaks as they happen. | Continue reading
No one knows. And it might be time to stop asking. | Continue reading
This Friday the Tutanota Team calls on millions of users to join the international demonstrations for protecting our planet. | Continue reading
"ImageNet Roulette regularly classifies people in dubious and cruel ways," said its makers. That's the point. | Continue reading
With today’s release (v0.13.0), you can now use ACME to get certificates from step-ca. ACME (RFC8555) is the protocol that Let’s Encrypt uses to automate certificate management for websites. ACME radically simplifies the deployment of TLS and HTTPS by letting you obtain certifica … | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s CIO for enterprise, Tony McManus, says its clients’ changing attitude to using cloud is changing the way the firm makes its real-time trading data available to the financial services community. | Continue reading
To celebrate 15 years of the craziest film festival in the world, here are the 86 best Fantastic Fest movies, as voted by /Film writers. | Continue reading
She’s in London. | Continue reading
Thick, impenetrable ice slabs are expanding rapidly on the interior of Greenland's ice sheet, where the ice is normally porous and able to reabsorb meltwater. These slabs are instead sending meltwater spilling into the ocean, according to a new CIRES-led assessment, threatening t … | Continue reading
Scientists say bolder actions to protect coral reefs from the effects of global warming will benefit all ecosystems, including those on land. | Continue reading
The global conservation community has been urged to adopt a specific target to protect the world's remaining wilderness areas to prevent large scale loss of at-risk species. | Continue reading
Strategies to limit climate change that focus on warming in the next couple of decades would leave less of a burden for future generations. | Continue reading
It may still be decades before quantum computers are ready to solve problems that today's classical computers aren't fast or efficient enough to solve, but the emerging "probabilistic computer" could bridge the gap between classical and quantum computing. | Continue reading
Those with disabilities can experience more physical impacts and can be more socially isolated than the able-bodied | Continue reading
Metal nanoparticles have a wide range of applications, from medicine to catalysis, from energy to the environment. But the fundamentals of adsorption—the process allowing molecules to bind as a layer to a solid surface—in relation to the nanoparticle's characteristics were yet to … | Continue reading
Learn what you need and how to start developing your own API in clojure using this guide. | Continue reading
Just as the steam engine set the stage for the Industrial Revolution, and micro transistors sparked the digital age, nanoscale devices made from DNA are opening up a new era in bio-medical research and materials science. | Continue reading
A new tool from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) can predict the odds that honey bee colonies overwintered in cold storage will be large enough to rent for almond pollination in February. Identifying which colonies will not be worth spending dollars to overwinter can impro … | Continue reading
On September 14, some as-yet officially unknown perpetrators launched a complex attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. The attack was apparently carried out by drones, cruise missiles, or both. It cut Saudi Arabia’s oil exports by half, a big deal considering the country supplie … | Continue reading
I want to count the A's T's C's G's N's and "-" characters in a file, or every letter if needed, is there a quick Unix command to do this? | Continue reading
Purchased in September 2009, Dimora delle Balze is a 1800 estate in Noto, Italy designed by Draga Obradovic and Stefano Guidotti. Time seems to have | Continue reading
A step by step guide on how to use continuous integration for firmware projects with CircleCI. | Continue reading
International photographer Eric Pickersgill has created a fitting series entitled "Removed", where he presents individual portraits in beautiful black and | Continue reading
A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has completed the first study of the effects of a simultaneous infection with blood flukes (schistosomes) and the bacterium Helicobacter pylori—a fairly common occurrence in some parts of the world. They identified a complex inte … | Continue reading
Neo4j Backs Launch of GQL Project: First New ISO Database Language Since SQL SAN MATEO, Calif. – September 17, 2019 – Neo4j, the leader in graph databases, announced today that the international committees that develop the SQL standard have voted… Read more → | Continue reading
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science, in partnership with the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) and the National Geographic Society, has revealed details regarding the world-exclusive exhibition—Origins: Fossils from the Cradle of Humankind. The limited-run exhi … | Continue reading
NASA's Aqua satellite is one in a fleet of NASA satellites that provide data for research. NASA's Aqua satellite provided a visible image of Major Hurricane Humberto and its very long "tail" of thunderstorms stretching past eastern Canada. | Continue reading
“In the modern knowledge economy, learning and thinking are the single best long-term investments you can make in your career. Learning… | Continue reading