Forty years ago, Canadian physicist Bill Unruh made a surprising prediction regarding quantum field theory. Known as the Unruh effect, his theory predicted that an accelerating observer would be bathed in blackbody radiation, whereas an inertial observer would be exposed to none. … | Continue reading
Floating equipment in the stratosphere prevents the need for extensive infrastructure on the ground | Continue reading
China's Chang'e-4 lander contains a living experiment that could lay the groundwork for agriculture at its future lunar base. | Continue reading
The market for expensive shortwave radios collapsed in the early 2000s. But before it did, Grundig created a blaze of glory | Continue reading
You can help your team be happy while optimizing for the overall impact on the business by choosing the right things to work on, using… | Continue reading
China’s bike-sharing firms were supposed to be the next big thing. What happened? | Continue reading
As corporations rush in to make a buck, some farmers are pushing back — and fighting for the soul of organic food | Continue reading
Years late and massively over-budget, Europe’s first EPR reactors in Finland and France are on the verge of “energizing”, as the sector jargon goes. | Continue reading
Part 2 of a 2-Part Classic TV Retrospective about TV’s Top Female Superheroes | Continue reading
Part 1 of a 2-Part Classic TV Retrospective about TV’s Top Female Superheroes | Continue reading
The overall UI of iOS hasn't changed too much since iOS 7 got rid of skeuomorphism, but an ex-Apple employee has come up with a brilliant UI concept that Former Apple software engineer Bob Burrough created a UI concept for iOS that lights objects based on the environment a phone … | Continue reading
As testosterone levels decline in America, executives at the highest levels of industry are supplementing with human growth hormone and testosterone to build their empires and engage in corporate trench warfare well into their 70s. | Continue reading
The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud may be on a collision course with the Milky Way - and it could make our galaxy less strange when they smash in 2 billion years | Continue reading
“My dad comes from a place called Morocco that even my friends don’t know about. It takes a whole day to get there. It’s a little country with a little amount of people and little buildings made of sand. At night there are a lot of bugs. The people are nice but you can’t unde … | Continue reading
Stream é uma API que veio para facilitar a vida dos desenvolvedores, reduzindo a quantidade de linhas e facilitando a leitura dos códigos. | Continue reading
No one, Nobody | Continue reading
This list of APIs from 2018 encompasses earth and Human Health, Environment, and the Internet of Things. Developers looking to develop applications for Home Automation, Fitness, Healthcare, Weather, Climate, Energy, and Sustainability may find these choices worthy of a look. | Continue reading
Grubhub has been the industry leader in online food delivery, but going forward will have to spend heavily to maintain its lead over numerous upstart competitor | Continue reading
This one of my favourite parts of any project. After picking a name, which took me way too long this time around, I start designing a style for the entire project. Elements of this style usually come up in the development process so I use pieces of the design I | Continue reading
In 2017 I asked, “Can You Write Code on an iPad?” In 2019 the answer is basically the same: not really. But things ar... | Continue reading
On Earth, oxygen is a signature byproduct of life. But what if astronomers found oxygen in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant sun? Would that prove life exists there? Not necessarily, says a new study. | Continue reading
Some of the best technical talks I've heard over the years. | Continue reading
A recent report emerging from the center of U.S. auto manufacturing rains on the AI parade with research results claiming autonomous vehicle algorithms | Continue reading
While still in the early stages, this breakthrough could help those suffering from diseases like ALS to communicate easier. | Continue reading
Download Containers with Transitions for Firefox. Fork of Multi-Account Containers that adds transition rules, which let you choose the container to open a page based on the opening container. It also adds other improvements to reduce papercuts and unwanted prompts. | Continue reading
CSL team works in chaotic creativity to find new solutions for Japan's future | Continue reading
Nokia's next flagship Android phone features five cameras, a 5.99-inch PureDisplay, more. | Continue reading
January 1st marks the 40th anniversary of U.S.-China ties. What happens next? | Continue reading
In an interview with 60 Minutes the Egyptian government later asked not be shown, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi denies estimates of 60,000 political prisoners in his country. See the full interview, Sunday, January 6 at 7 p.m. ET/PT. | Continue reading
You should choose a monorepo because the default behavior it encourages in your teams is visibility and shared responsibility, especially… | Continue reading
Seattle built the fourth-most apartments of any metro area in the country over the past year, with only New York, Los Angeles and Dallas — all with far bigger populations than Seattle — building more. | Continue reading
Discussing the design of RKMS, a highly available key management service built on top of the SLA-less AWS KMS. | Continue reading
The start of a series of blog posts, all related to one of my yearly themes: automation. | Continue reading
In one of the companies where I worked, I was a part of a pretty small team of five developers. We had a support rota, so each week, one of us was responsible for handling tickets from users. Apart from requesting new features, users often asked for changes in the system that onl … | Continue reading
Welcome to the “Building a new MySQL adapter for Ecto” series: Part I: Hello World Part II: Encoding/Decoding Part III: DBConnection Integration Part IV: Ecto Integration (you’re here!) After DBConnection integration we have a driver that should be usable on its own. Th … | Continue reading
Mikkel created 10er, a Patreon-similar service for Danish creators. He built it as a Rails app and soon launched it on his podcast, where he already had a target audience. During the last few months, the site has grown a lot and almost reached the $2,000/month goal. | Continue reading
The rover is named Yutu-2, China's space agency announced. | Continue reading
Scientists waste substantial time writing grant proposals, potentially squandering much of the scientific value of funding programs. This Meta-Research Article shows that, unfortunately, grant-proposal competitions are inevitably inefficient when the number of awards is small, bu … | Continue reading