Lawyers have rigged the system through ever-bolder property rights, and that is fueling inequality and the rise of populism. | Continue reading
You think if Darwinian theory had emerged not in the dark age of the 19th century but in our own woke era, it would be different? No, it wouldn’t. | Continue reading
Spoiler: no, you can’t, unless you also encrypt the quantum state. In this post we are going to look at recent scientific results about the potential and limitations of cryptography on a quan… | Continue reading
Google’s policy is to store your passwords with cryptographic hashes that mask those passwords to ensure their security. However, we recently notified a su | Continue reading
Regular speed bumps are a very strong sign that their eye is back on the ball, especially in the pro market, where artists, video pros, developers, and scientists really can use every CPU and GPU cycle they can get. | Continue reading
Earlier this year, a critical free speech law in Texas came under attack. Texas bill H.B. 2730, as introduced, would have gutted the Texas Citizens Protection Act, or TCPA.The TCPA has been one of the strongest laws in the nation protecting citizens against SLAPPs. SLAPP is a sho … | Continue reading
The first full post in my series about making a mobile phone from scratch. | Continue reading
Contributed by Nathan Taber and Michael Hausenblas At re:Invent 2017 we introduced the Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes, or Amazon EKS for short. We consider these tenets as valid today as they were at launch: EKS is a platform to run production-grade workloads. Th … | Continue reading
The Air Force has reportedly seized an attorney's computer and phone as part of an investigation into whether the Navy improperly spied on defense attorneys. | Continue reading
There may come a time in your career when you have to move from platforms such as Firebase and Netlify for app deployment to a more enterprise-focused platform such as Microsoft Azure. Here's an empathetic post for all the Spoiled People. | Continue reading
G Suite users have who have been affected between the dates of January 13th, 2019 and May 9th, 2019 have been contacted to inform them… | Continue reading
John Waters, self-described garbage guru, wonders how he stumbled into what every young artist fears: acceptance. | Continue reading
Winston empowers you to reclaim your online privacy and use the internet without being watched, packaged, and sold. | Continue reading
Africa is rapidly adopting the same software and hardware technologies that have transformed the western world over the last few decades. But access to computers and technology education is still uneven. Where there is access to computers, smartphone adoption often comes before a … | Continue reading
The line to enter Barcelona’s most famous church often stretches around the block. La Sagrada Família, designed by Antoni Gaudí, draws so many people to see it that the neighborhood is congested with tour buses and taxis and scooters. It’s estimated that some three million people … | Continue reading
To date Microsoft has stayed out of the increasing skirmishes in the cloud-native world around service-mesh technology, but on Tuesday it plans to introduce a new specification in hopes that everyone… | Continue reading
Blizzard aimed for a faithful recreation of the original game—flaws and all. | Continue reading
Many ways to approach the Riemann Hypothesis have been proposed during the past 150 years, but none of them have led to conquering the most famous open problem in mathematics. A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggests that one of these old … | Continue reading
The proposed "Big Bend"—the world's longest building—would straddle Billionaires' Row | Continue reading
New Coke is back after being discontinued for 17 years, with Coca-Cola bringing back the unpopular brand as a tie in with the release of Stranger Things 3. | Continue reading
I’m a member of the Strong Towns movement because I love the place I live, enough to want to change the destructive path it’s on. I know there are many thousands out there like me. Our movement needs you more than ever. | Continue reading
Dean Baquet has a depressing outlook for the local media landscape. Billionaire owners may be the only hope. | Continue reading
Sixteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in the Demographics, Advertising, Telephony and other categories. Today's highlights include an API for retrieving over 350,000 memes, and an API that lets applications predict air travel delays. Here's a rundown of th … | Continue reading
Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 30 times more heat than carbon dioxide, is commonly released from rice fields, dairies, landfills, and oil and gas facilities – all of which are plentiful in California. Now Berkeley Lab has been awarded $6 million by the state to … | Continue reading
Sony Pictures has released the trailer for Quentin Tarantino's 9th film entitled Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (previously) in which a television actor | Continue reading
Another point of crossover that hints at a possible future. | Continue reading
How misinformation spread over one of the safest herbicides becoming known as one of the most harmful. | Continue reading
Announcements from KubeCon EU: Helm 3 release, Kubernetes integration with VS Code, Virtual Kubelet project 1.0 release, and Service Mesh Interface (SMI). | Continue reading
Prominent physicist Freeman Dyson recalls the time he spent developing analytical methods to help the British Royal Air Force bomb German targets during World War II. | Continue reading
An 1119-page collection of papers known as the Codex Atlanticus has been completely digitized and put online to explore. The | Continue reading
By CCN: Craig Wright has filed copyright registrations for the bitcoin whitepaper and the early Bitcoin code with the US Copyright Office. It’s the latest step in Craig Wright’s battle to prove he is bitcoin’s creator and the man behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin’s m … | Continue reading
A categorisation system for different types of hash functions. | Continue reading
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary | Continue reading
Facebook announced today that it is open-sourcing Pythia, a deep learning framework for vision and language multimodal research framework… | Continue reading