The last gourd hat maker in the Philippines

Teofilo Garcia may be the last Filipino to turn gourds he grows into headwear. | Continue reading


@atlasobscura.com | 4 years ago

How to create a fillable form on a Mac

From planning personal or business events to closing contracts, digital forms are crucial tools to connect people, gather data and optimize workflows. That said, here’s how can you create a… | Continue reading


@ilounge.com | 4 years ago

Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup

You may be swallowing billions of tiny plastic particles while sipping a cup of freshly brewed gourmet tea, a new study from McGill University in Montreal suggests. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 4 years ago

Full Metal Gymnast

Boston Dynamics programmed their Atlas robot to do a gymnastics routine.I lost it when it did that little jump split at about | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 4 years ago

The Proper Use of Pointers in Go (Golang)

Go has become increasingly popular in recent years, especially in my local area. Go has been consistently displacing other backend languages like Ruby, Python, C# and Java. Go is wanted for its simplicity, explicitness, speed, and low memory consumption. Many developers that are … | Continue reading


@qvault.io | 4 years ago

Configuring an IPv6 Address in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 8

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@redhat.com | 4 years ago

Warp is here (sorry it took so long)

Today, after a longer than expected wait, we're opening WARP and WARP Plus to the general public. If you haven’t heard about it yet, WARP is a mobile app designed for everyone which uses our global network to secure all of your phone’s Internet traffic. | Continue reading


@blog.cloudflare.com | 4 years ago

OpenSSI – Single System Image (2010)

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

The Technical Challenges of Building Cloudflare Warp

If you have seen [our other post] you know that we released WARP to the last members of our waiting list today. With WARP our goal was to secure and improve the connection between your mobile devices and the Internet. | Continue reading


@blog.cloudflare.com | 4 years ago

The Fallacy of Multitasking and the Lost Art of 'Singletasking'

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@blog.nuclino.com | 4 years ago

Cool Stuff: Super7 ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Figures Give the Original Playmates Toys a Detailed Makeover

These new Super7 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures bring the vintage Playmates toys to life, but with a detailed makeover. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Automatically Unsubscribe from Unwanted Emails with 'Leave Me Alone'

A few years back, Unroll.me promised to help users unsubscribe from email newsletters en masse, for free. It turned out they were scanning users’ email and selling data—for example, selling data from Lyft emails to Uber. That is why you should pay money for Leave Me Alone, an ema … | Continue reading


@lifehacker.com | 4 years ago

Openreach on the challenge of shuttering UK's copper phone lines

With 2025 deadline, potential for disruption is huge | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

New synthetic polymer degradable under very mild acidic conditions

A research team in Ehime University prepared a new type of synthetic polymer, which can be degraded into a combination of well-defined low molecular weight compounds under very mild acidic conditions. The new polymer, poly(β-keto enol ether), has great potential to be utilized as … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Last Chance: Get the Best of the Best of Copyblogger Courses

This is your last chance to grab our deal on all of Copyblogger's high-impact courses, before they're no longer available to the public again at any price. | Continue reading


@copyblogger.com | 4 years ago

All Dolled Up

We all have a slightly irrational fear, right?  Maybe it's sharks: | Continue reading


@cakewrecks.com | 4 years ago

Image Generator – Drawing Cartoons with Generative Adversarial Networks

Generating Simpsons with DCGANs | Continue reading


@towardsdatascience.com | 4 years ago

Just climate change action: Centering Indigenous wisdom and perspectives

The climate crisis threatens to dramatically alter people's relationships with the land on which they rely. Meanwhile, many climate solutions are themselves land-intensive: solar and wind energy, carbon dioxide sequestration, and finding places for people displaced by climate cha … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Quantum destabilization of a water sandwich

From raindrops rolling off the waxy surface of a waterlily leaf to the efficiency of desalination membranes, interactions between water molecules and water-repellent "hydrophobic" surfaces are all around us. The interplay becomes even more intriguing when a thin water layer becom … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

How does climate change help to spread diseases?

Many vector-borne diseases are transmitted by mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are cold-blooded insects, which means that environmental conditions, in particular temperatures, regulate their metabolism, development and activity. For instance, mosquitoes develop faster when it is warmer (pr … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Research provides new insight into the critical roles of plankton in marine carbon storage

The sea is Earth's most formidable carbon dioxide-storage machine, but mysteries still abound about the interlocking processes of that storage and the myriad organisms involved. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Encountering the Provincials

Rachel Lu reviews Chris Arnade's Dignity, a look at those struggling in what he calls "back row America." | Continue reading


@lawliberty.org | 4 years ago

Ukraine Whistleblower Aims at Trump, Hits Biden

The most recent uproar over Donald Trump's phone call with the Ukraine president has snared not just the president but Joe Biden as well. | Continue reading


@intpolicydigest.org | 4 years ago

Method for cooling a superconducting accelerator cavity

Fermilab scientists and engineers have achieved a landmark result in an ongoing effort to design and build compact, portable particle accelerators. Our group successfully demonstrated a new, efficient way to cool superconducting accelerator components, cutting down on the bulk of … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Cleaning up 'dirty' ceramic tile production

Energy efficiency in kilns and other process stages of ceramics production are quite low and pollutants are currently emitted at unsustainable levels. But as costs for fossil fuels rise and governments impose ever tighter carbon emission regulations, ceramics companies are increa … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Negative thermal expansion design strategies in metal-organic frameworks

In a study just published in the renowned journal Advanced Functional Materials, a team of American and Dutch researchers present design strategies for adjusting the thermal expansion behavior of microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs). In particular, the ability to realise n … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

NASA Recommendations to Space-Faring Entities: How to Protect [] Lunar Artifacts

NASA's recommendations to space-faring commercial entities and nations, for spacecraft planning to visit U.S. lunar heritage sites. | Continue reading


@nasa.gov | 4 years ago

Hacker House Disappears

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@hacker.house | 4 years ago

Scientists build chip to analyze health of white blood cells

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a lab-on-a-chip system that can identify the health aspects of a person's immune system from a drop of their blood, within minutes. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Could Java Be the Next Cobol?

COBOL offers a great example of the growth within our industry while offering some clues as to what tomorrow’s COBOLs will be. Could Java be the next COBOL? | Continue reading


@learnworthy.net | 4 years ago

Low grade “journalists” and internet mob attack RMS with lies. In-depth review

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@sterling-archermedes.github.io | 4 years ago

New method provides better understanding of gene 'enhancers' work

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science and Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare (IFOM), along with collaborators from Kyoto University, the Karolinska Institut, and DNAFORM, have developed a new technique, NET-CAGE, to elucidate the structure of a type … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

First 3-D coral design project simulates living reefs and new fish habitats

To combat the abuse and degradation of the world's coral reefs, researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Technion Institute of Technology have developed various 3-D printed corals that could become new habitats. In some instances, the fish actually preferre … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

20. EVVC-Fachtagung mit Besucherrekord

Vom 15. bis zum 17. September ging vor wenigen Tagen die Fachtagung des EVVC – Europäischer Verband der Veranstaltungs-Centren e.V. – im Mannheimer Congress Center Rosengarten über die Bühne. Mit insgesamt 320 Teilnehmern aus dem Kreis der Verbands-Mitglieder und -Partner konnte … | Continue reading


@events-magazin.de | 4 years ago

Combating the climate crisis: Plantations bind carbon dioxide and bring rain to the desert

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@phys.org | 4 years ago

Monkeys like alcohol at low concentrations, but probably not due to the calories

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@phys.org | 4 years ago

Researchers can now place single ions into solids

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@phys.org | 4 years ago

TalkScript Episode 47: Back Ends – SMS Browser, Streaming Audio and Game Engine

In the fourth episode of our 6-part series recorded at JSConf US 2019, the team interviews Alexandra Sunderland, Sara Fecadu, and Florian Rival around the theme of backend services. Alexandra started out writing a chatbot but it grew into a phone app that can browse the web witho … | Continue reading


@sitepen.com | 4 years ago

A smarter habitat for deep space exploration

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@phys.org | 4 years ago

Researchers use immune system to attack glioblastoma

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@phys.org | 4 years ago

Fish experience pain with 'striking similarity' to mammals

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@phys.org | 4 years ago

A chip to measure vacuums

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@phys.org | 4 years ago

TalkScript Episode 48: Growth – Imposter Syndrome, Helping JavaScript Newcomers

This fifth episode of our 6-part series from JSConf US 2019 features interviews with David Whittaker and Suzie Grange around the theme of growth. Go watch David's talk — it defines and deals with imposter syndrome quickly and without judgment in a way that illustrates it's not th … | Continue reading


@sitepen.com | 4 years ago

Italian Alpine glacier close to collapse, officials warn

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@phys.org | 4 years ago

Writing Smart Contracts with Python on Ontology. Pt 1: Blockchain and Block API

This is an official tutorial published earlier on Ontology Medium blog Excited to publish it for Habr readers. Feel free to ask any related questions and... | Continue reading


@habr.com | 4 years ago

How to Enable IPv6 in Applications

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@ungleich.ch | 4 years ago

TalkScript Episode 49: Beyond JavaScript – Time Zones, Gesture Recognition

Our final episode from JSConf US features interviews with Daniel Cousineau and Charlie Gerard around the theme of using JavaScript beyond the typical web site. Daniel's talk pulled back the curtain on the problems inherent in using timezones that can't be fixed just by using a li … | Continue reading


@sitepen.com | 4 years ago

MacArthur Foundation announces $625K genius grant recipients

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@phys.org | 4 years ago