Recent proposals to grant workers equity in the economy have been met with skepticism by those who fear that radical intervention in the market inevitably paves the road to serfdom. But profit-sharing schemes, if designed properly, could be an ideal response to today's dangerousl … | Continue reading
Back in April, all was well with our community of busy adults learning to code. We were communicating using Gitter.im, a GitHub based… | Continue reading
I’d originally thought I’d be blogging from the opposite viewpoint. | Continue reading
It's been eight years since Robyn's last release, which seems like a Donna Tartt-esque wait in the pop music world. Her new album, | Continue reading
You have a Right to Repair what you own, either by yourself or at a repair shop of your choice. Here's how you can stand up for your Right to Repair everything. | Continue reading
The Trump administration is announcing plans to come up with a strategy for supporting the development of next-generation wireless networks known as "5G." | Continue reading
Weighing only 2.6KB gzipped, Squirrelly is fast, lightweight, and flexible. It supports partials, helpers, filters, and native code. | Continue reading
Using engineered nanocomposite structures called metamaterials, a City College of New York-led research team reports the ability to measure a significant increase in the energy transfer between molecules. Reported in the journal ACS Photonics, this breakthrough breaks the Förster … | Continue reading
If you use Linux and enjoy playing video games, life has been pretty good lately. Valve, Unity, Unreal Engine, and other big-name forces have pulled the video game industry into Linux compatibility so thoroughly that if you use Steam, you likely own more Linux-compatible games th … | Continue reading
NASA's GPM Core observatory satellite captured an image of Super Typhoon Yutu when it flew over the powerful storm just as the center was striking the central Northern Mariana Islands north of Guam. | Continue reading
Baby birds learn to fly. Baby mammals switch from milk to solid food. Baby bats, as winged mammals, do both at the same time during their transition from infants to flying juveniles. According to a new report from researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) … | Continue reading
I really liked the idea of trying to work towards a binding theme in your Instagram posts. I decided to go for yellow/orange/red theme. This creates some restrictions on what I am allowed to take pictures of. I found this type of limitation can be a really good tool for creative … | Continue reading
When a coworker or employee is struggling, is it better to offer help on the job or just a shoulder to cry on? A new study led by San Francisco State University researchers shows that the two forms of support do roughly the same thing—but that sometimes, it's best not to address … | Continue reading
The Jupyter Notebook is a web-based interactive computing platform. The notebook combines live code, equations, narrative text, visualizations, interactive dashboards and other media. | Continue reading
GDPR-US is needed, warns Apple CEO Tim Cook, as he denounces the weaponization of personal data. | Continue reading
Empowering Enterprises with Improved Edge and Multi-cloud Management and Operational Controls. | Continue reading
A University of Oklahoma meteorologist, Elinor R. Martin, expects severe drought and long-lasting rainfall events to worsen in the future. In Martin's new study just published, she determines how frequent, intense and long lasting these types of events will be in the future. Mart … | Continue reading
This much is clear: The tiny bacteria that live on and inside us are tremendously important for our health and well-being, affecting everything from our mood to the risk of autism. But understanding how those multitudes of microbes interact—and how they influence human health—is … | Continue reading
Gyroscopes are devices that help vehicles, drones, and wearable and handheld electronic devices know their orientation in three-dimensional space. They are commonplace in just about every bit of technology we rely on every day. Originally, gyroscopes were sets of nested wheels, e … | Continue reading
APIs, via B2B partnerships and B2C applications, can increase a company’s reach and make digital assets and services available to broader audiences. There are dangers posed by the adoption of insecure APIs in the enterprise. Hence, businesses need a strategy for building and oper … | Continue reading
Our liver keeps us safe by clearing out the toxins we voluntarily (and involuntarily) ingest each day, protecting us from that blur of a wine-y weekend, that hormone-fueled junk food high, or even the on and off cycles of antibiotics we sometimes self-diagnose. | Continue reading
A network metric called the K-core could predict structural collapse in mutualistic ecosystems, according to research by physicists at The City College of New York. The K-core appears able to forecast which species is likely to face extinction first, by global shocks such as clim … | Continue reading
What I learned from growing up online. | Continue reading
Canary deployment pattern is very similar to Blue green deployments, where you are deploying a certain version of your application to a subset of your application servers. If everything is alright and you have tested out that everything is working fine, you route a certain percen … | Continue reading
Controlled image synthesis and editing using a novel TL-GAN model | Continue reading
Many of your favorite mobile apps are currently using some form of neural networks and/or machine learning techniques to personalize your… | Continue reading
You can now create monitoring integrations for your technology stack easier than ever before. We’ve recently opened-sourced Sematext’s Monitoring Agent, reworked it, and made it fully pluggable, making it possible for you to collect metrics from a number of additional sources. … | Continue reading
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Mueller’s investigators examined a series of meetings between an Israeli social media strategist, the general blamed for Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, and Trump adviser Michael Flynn. | Continue reading
Egyptian authorities have arrested an author for publishing fake news. Except, Farouk didn't publish fake news, he just criticized Egypt's government. | Continue reading
Our survey indicates 44 percent of Amazon advertisers plan to add automation tools for campaign management in the coming year. | Continue reading
So we all know about the ‘free wifi’ at airports, shopping centres etc – and we all expect it to be monitored beyond belief. What we don’t realise is that there is more to t… | Continue reading
Within two years, the city of Chengdu aims to swap out its ground-based street lighting with the soft glow of an artificial moon, casting light across 50 square miles of the urban landscape. Wu Chu… | Continue reading
While experimenting with enhancements of the prediction model of Guess.js, I started looking at deep learning. I’ve focused mainly on recurrent neural networks (RNNs), specifically LSTM because of their “unreasonable effectiveness” in the domain of Guess.js. In the same time, I s … | Continue reading
The new exemptions are a major win for the right to repair movement and give consumers wide latitude to legally repair the devices they own. | Continue reading
Information recall goes beyond memory access to powerfully allow long-term memory enhancement. Using human brain imaging, researchers in the UK and US have observed that an attempt to remember a specific event, accompanied the re-activation of additional information from the same … | Continue reading
The most interesting and contentious four hours of discussion at the FTC Antitrust Hearings last week were cancelled. The planned sessions… | Continue reading