When we hear spectrometer, we usually think of some piece of high-end test equipment sitting in a CSI lab. Sure, a hacker could make one if he or she put their mind to it. But make one out of a web… | Continue reading
Jared Leto is joining Denzel Washington and Rami Malek in The Little Things. | Continue reading
Don't start the school year without these classroom organization hacks -- from reading nooks to supplies kits, these are the best we could find! | Continue reading
Google has begun truncating the visible URL in Chrome for desktop and Android, rolling out the change in version 76, released this week. | Continue reading
The random seaside holidays of Hackaday staffers rarely sow the seeds of our articles, but my most recent trip had something slightly unusual about it. I was spending a couple of days in a resort t… | Continue reading
“America’s Housing Affordability Crisis Spreads to the Heartland” (Bloomberg) says that Americans with ordinary jobs can’t afford to buy houses or apartments all across the U.S. &… | Continue reading
*This story is developing and will be updated.In a deadly week for the Mexican press, a third journalist has been killed in the country.Jorge Celestino Ruíz Vázquez was shot around 9 p | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Crispin Odey made £220million overnight as sterling slumped after the 2016 referendum result. | Continue reading
In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Disneyland and Walt Disney World are announcing their holiday plans. Universal Studios Orlando announced the arrival of a third theme park. And more! Are you ready to get epic? Even if that word has arguably lost most, if not all, meaning over … | Continue reading
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Class-action lawsuit filed in California against Capital One... and GitHub??? | Continue reading
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The UC Negotiating Team Ivy Anderson, (Co-Chair), Associate Executive Director of the California Digital Library; Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (Co-Chair), University Librarian and Professor, School of Information and Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley; Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Pro … | Continue reading
The HTML marquee element is used to insert a scrolling area of text. You can control what happens when the text reaches the edges of its content area using its attributes. | Continue reading
This is an audio version of "Do Things That Don’t Scale" by Paul Graham (paulgraham.com/ds.html).Read by Mark Gavagan, author of Streaker's Journal (streakersjournal.com), founder of Crushh.com (crushh.com). On Twitter: @mgavPartial transcript: One of the most common types of adv … | Continue reading
Small, high-performance imaging systems could be built using flat lenses made from specially arranged nanoscale pillars. Traditional lenses rely on the curvature and thickness of glass to focus light, but metalenses, which can be smaller, thinner, and more flexible, have surfaces … | Continue reading
The electromagnetic spectrum covers a vast range of wavelengths and frequencies, only a tiny fraction | Continue reading
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. | Continue reading
There is much to be celebrated in the rise of modern megacities, especially in developing countries. But if the trend persists in advanced economies, which is by no means certain, greater public and private innovation will be required to strike a better regional growth balance. | Continue reading
By Lane Wagner We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique passwords. Unique passwords however present a difficult problem: No one can remember hundreds of strong passwords. To fix this problem, we created password managers. … | Continue reading
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David Wootton in Lapham’s Quarterly: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. —The Declaration of Independence … | Continue reading
More Americans trust the motives of scientists than of journalists or politicians. | Continue reading
A new patent filing suggests that American retail giant Walmart may be developing its own U.S. dollar-backed digital currency similar to Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency. | Continue reading
Will Fitzgibbon over at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: A longtime possession of the Dutch, French and then the British, Mauritius was for centuries a poor agrarian society with an economy based mostly on sugarcane. Its economic prospects seemed forever … | Continue reading
When Facebook trained chatbots to negotiate with one another, the bots made up their own way of communicating. | Continue reading