In honor of Star Wars Day, skilled stuntwoman Michelle C. Smith performed a badass routine using a brightly illuminated Flowsaber martial arts tool that | Continue reading
Intel revealed a new speculative execution attack that would allow malicious actors to obtain sensitive information that would otherwise be protected by the processor. The flaw could affect system performance. | Continue reading
Quantum walks are the quantum analogs of classical random walks, which allow simulating large-scale quantum many-body systems and realizing universal quantum computation without time-dependent control. We experimentally demonstrate quantum walks of one and two strongly correlated … | Continue reading
In our Jac Schaeffer interview, we speak to the screenwriter behind The Hustle, the upcoming Black Widow movie, and the Disney+ series WandaVision. | Continue reading
It is a confusing time in insurance-based businesses. Consumer behavior is changing how insurance business models are working. | Continue reading
Who's Hiring? Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundr... | Continue reading
Let’s break some code! | Continue reading
Although the genomes of thousands of plant and animal species have been sequenced, for most of these genomes a significant portion is missing—the highly repetitive DNA. In the midst of these mysterious genome compartments are the centromeres—essential chromosomal regions that all … | Continue reading
Engineers at CoinTracker talk about their culture, key values, current team members, open jobs, and what it is like working at CoinTracker. | Continue reading
Defaunation—the loss of species or decline of animal populations—is reaching even the most remote and pristine tropical forests. Within the tropics, only 20% of the remaining area is considered intact, where no logging or deforestation has been detected by remote sensing. However … | Continue reading
Ryan Stauffer of Enharmonic describes in detail how you can combine the power of Scylla, JanusGraph and Elasticsearch for a complete graph data solution. | Continue reading
Philippe Lemoine in Nec Pluribus Impar: Karl Popper famously defended the view, known as falsificationism, that what distinguishes science from non-science is falsifiability. On this view, a theory is scientific if and only if it’s falsifiable, at least in principle. What this me … | Continue reading
The spyware allowed the attacker to take over iPhones and Android phones by simply placing a WhatsApp voice call to them. | Continue reading
That's how you pronounce 😾😾😾: A means to bury spyware deep inside pwned networking gear | Continue reading
Rage 2 uses my birth defect as a crude shorthand for mutant freak | Continue reading
Recent versions of the Google Chrome browser have a bug that prevents some users from deleting the browsing history of the browser. | Continue reading
Sean Carroll in Preposterous Universe: Most of us have no trouble telling the difference between a robot and a living, feeling organism. Nevertheless, our brains often treat robots as if they were alive. We give them names, imagine that they have emotions and inner mental states, … | Continue reading
My favorite book by Jon Kabat-Zinn is “Wherever You Go There You Are.” That’s why I was looking forward to reading “Full Catastrophe Living” when I saw that it was ava… | Continue reading
Also: The “Airbnb of cars” gets heat from the rental car industry, and new ideas for Paris’s outdated infrastructure. | Continue reading
Expressive code in C++ | Continue reading
Humans, not computer models, need to make the final call. | Continue reading
Peter Conrad in The Guardian: Liberalism has become a tricky and even dirty term, which may be why it is banished to the subtitle of Adam Gopnik’s supremely intelligent but tortuous polemical essay. American leftwingers nowadays avoid the adjective and prefer to call themselves “ … | Continue reading
Einstein’s Wife, Einstein’s War, Gravity’s Century and No Shadow of a Doubt reviewed. Four books focusing on Albert Einstein | Continue reading
A Confluent Community Catalyst is a person who invests their time and energy relentlessly in the Apache Kafka and Confluent communities. They make it a habit of contributing knowledge, enthusiasm, support, encouragement, mentoring, and code to one of the most innovative communiti … | Continue reading
Do Conv-nets Dream of Psychedelic Sheep? Deep dreaming at successive layers of abstraction. From top to bottom: input image, conv2-3x3_reduce, inception_4c-1 | Continue reading
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In a chic video essay for Vox written and researched by author Genevieve Valentine, host Gina Barton explains how Cersei Lannister and Sansa Stark almost | Continue reading
Bill Nye frolicked in a ball pit to explain how the planet's populations compete for resources. He took a chain saw to a loaf of bread, comparing it to Earth's crust, and he was nearly blown away in a wind tunnel while shouting "science!" | Continue reading
Comedian Tim Conway passed away today, and I posted a thought on Facebook which I'll share here as well: "It occurs to me that one day every celebrity I ever loved growing up will be gone, and it will feel a little bit like being orphaned." I will add that at age 50, their ranks… | Continue reading
New Australian research is raising questions over the safety of a common food additive after mouse studies found titanium dioxide can induce gut microbiome changes associated with the development of several diseases, including colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. | Continue reading
The Bond 25 production was temporarily suspended after star Daniel Craig was injured shooting one of his final scenes on location in Jamaica. | Continue reading
Download Disabled Add-on Fix for Firefox 52 - 56 for Firefox. This extension will re-enable extensions that were disabled on May 3, 2019 for Firefox versions 52 - 56. | Continue reading
A dubious project raises serious questions about the world’s most prestigious consulting firm and its work for corruption-plagued regimes. | Continue reading
At Grubhub, we want you to get your food. We don’t care if a powerline falls on an AWS datacenter, a construction worker accidentally… | Continue reading
It's easy to get lost in metrics. You've got A/B tests, time series tests, keyword tests, every kind of test you can think of. You're measuring engagement, clickthrough, funnel progress, time-on-site, everything. But do you really know who your customers actually are? Do you r … | Continue reading