Wayfair employees learned last Wednesday that a $200,000 order of bedroom furniture had been placed by BCFS, a government contractor that has been managing camps at the border. | Continue reading
Former students recount their experiences dropping out | Continue reading
Mat Taylor of the gadget video channel Techmoan (previously) examined and then dismantled a non-functional bright red Japanese Panasonic triple tape deck | Continue reading
This month, in many parts of the world, the LGBTQ+ community is celebrating Pride and, both online and off, the tech industry has paid lip service to supporting the community. Many social media companies participate in Pride parades or offer photo filters or other digital swag fo … | Continue reading
A lawsuit filed by FedEx against the U.S. government over export rules follows a dispute over diverted shipments that were intended for Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications-equipment giant. | Continue reading
In December of 2016, the city of San Francisco boldly enacted the “Occupant’s Right to Choose Communications Services Provider” ordinance (also known as Article 52) that hinders a payola scheme cooked up between big cable companies like Comcast and landlords. In just a few short … | Continue reading
SpaceIL, the Israeli company that attempted but failed to put an unmanned craft on the moon earlier this year, says it will not try a second moonshot. | Continue reading
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday the US central bank will be closely scrutinizing Facebook's newly announced cryptocurrency Libra with an eye toward potentially regulating the virtual coin. | Continue reading
As cosmologists ponder the universe—and other possible universes—the data available to them is so complex and vast that it can be extremely challenging for humans alone to comprehend. | Continue reading
Stories about drug use by Hitler and German forces during World War II have been widely told. What’s less well known is the Allied commanders’ embraced pharmacological “force enhancers” as well. By 1941, rumors about Nazi soldiers using a “super-drug” identified as the methamphe … | Continue reading
A new store brand is rising out of what was formerly Orchard Supply Hardware. | Continue reading
The Russo Brothers will partake in a Hall H panel at this year's Comic-Con, talking about their MCU films, and their non-MCU films to come. | Continue reading
Failed coup results in an Internet shutdown in Ethiopia. | Continue reading
We are happy to announce the release of Mender 2.0.1!
Being a patch release, it includes bugfixes for the Mender 2.0.0 release.
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Mississippi Department of Education says that the rules haven't changed but the problems are arising now because local school leaders did not pay close enough attention to those requirements. Educators say "there is no confusion here." | Continue reading
Climate change and human sprawl have triggered a pandemic | Continue reading
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Astronomy, Backup, Advertising, and Recognition. Highlighted are three new Payments APIs including the Openbucks cash alternative payment service API. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
It was Monday around noon and our ETL just completed the load of the previous day after dealing with several issues over night. We were… | Continue reading
Slate’s Use of Your Data | Continue reading
In 2018, the Cybereason Nocturnus team identified an advanced, persistent attack targeting global telecommunications providers. Read about it first here. | Continue reading
I miss drinking all the time. Drinking was the most fun I’ve ever had, and, more than three months sober, I still wonder if I’ll ever have… | Continue reading
Comcast charged tens of thousands of Washington residents for its “Service Protection Plan” without their consent. | Continue reading
Marijuana is having a moment. Experts recently dubbed cannabis the fastest-growing industry in the U.S. Legal weed generated $10.4 billion in the United States in 2018, and the number of... | Continue reading
Boeing and Kitty Hawk Corporation today announced a strategic partnership to collaborate on future efforts to advance safe urban air mobility. | Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court struck down a section of federal law Monday that prevented businesses from registering trademarks seen as scandalous or immoral, handing a victory to California... | Continue reading
Today, police confirmed the death of Desmond “Etika” Amofah, a well-known gaming YouTuber, after discovering him in Manhattan’s East River yesterday evening. Amofah’s body was found two days after police recovered his belongings on the Manhattan Bridge. Last week, he had publishe … | Continue reading
As any avid reader will attest, humans can envision even complex scenes given just a few well-chosen words. Artificial intelligence… | Continue reading
Users may have noticed that their notifications or engagements on LinkedIn have increased. | Continue reading
New debugging and visualization tool TensorWatch allows researchers and engineers to easily implement a variety of advanced scenarios when training their machine learning models. The possibilities abound. | Continue reading
It’s eerie. | Continue reading
You know Brendan Leonard, yes? Semi-Rad? Well, you may be familiar with Brendan, at least digitally, but you probably don’t know Kathy, his mom. Kathy went on her first whitewater rafting trip with OARS last year, through the Gates of Lodore, and Brendan filmed it. You know what? … | Continue reading
Scream season 3 is still happening, and now it's on VH1. Watch the trailer. | Continue reading
A driver from Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, gave an impressive demonstration their fully restored two-wheeled, self-balancing, cherry red | Continue reading
BigQuery users can now query and create BQML models within an integrated development environment using Kaggle Kernels. | Continue reading
The price of Bitcoin is through $11k for the second time in history, and comparing those two moments shows how crypto is evolving. | Continue reading
Share with friends and colleagues on social media This series of blog posts and corresponding talks aims to provide you with a pragmatic view on containers from a historic perspective. Together we will discover modern cloud architectures layer by layer, which means we will start … | Continue reading
Ever wondered what Feist thinks about Bruegel the Elder? Well wonder no more, my friend! She & other musicians have recorded their thoughts on the details of famous paintings. To wit:More than 10,000 artworks from 208 partners worldwide have been captured with Art Camera and digi … | Continue reading
Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul have teased a possible Breaking Bad reunion by sharing a mysterious photo. What's going on here? | Continue reading