U.S. prosecutors are alleging officials used a fake bomb scare to divert the plane so a dissident journalist could be arrested. | Continue reading
Virtual hang-outs, digital currency, weddings? Online games have been making space for these things for decades. | Continue reading
Farmers across the developing world say they are curtailing production, which means global hunger could worsen. | Continue reading
During the pandemic, a growing number of families have chosen to home school their children, with an especially large increase in the number of Black home schoolers. | Continue reading
A negative version of the placebo effect may be behind many instances of mild side effects associated with the jabs, a study suggests. | Continue reading
Can the planet’s ecosystems be replicated? | Continue reading
I'm trying to grasp the semantics of call/cc in Scheme, and the Wikipedia page on continuations shows the yin-yang puzzle as an example:(let* ((yin ((lambda (cc) (display #\@) cc) (call-... | Continue reading
Two New York Times journalists who write their drafts by hand sing the praises of pen and paper. | Continue reading
As you may now, Google is going to charge us $6 per user for using our personal domains from Google Workspace. Here is what I am doing to… | Continue reading
Attorney General to ask for injunction against story that broadcaster says is in the public interest | Continue reading
A libre, cross-platform client to browse Medium. Contribute to cloneconf/nedium development by creating an account on GitHub. | Continue reading
On today's menu let's build the world's first all new C64 using the Ultimate64 & with every part commercially available for you to do the same, even new keyc... | Continue reading
Live embedded commenting, fast. | Continue reading
The Great Resignation has rippled across headlines and boardrooms as employees' values and priorities evolve. Has the Great Resignation been caused by a silent stagnation in compensation?Let’s compare data from 2010 and 2021 to understand the longitudinal trends in cash and equit … | Continue reading
In this post of my syntactic sugar series, I want to tackle literals. Now some literals don't really require any code changes and are really just an alternative way to write the same thing, no call of code required (e.g. writing integers in hexadecimal format versus in base-10). … | Continue reading
How exactly will Webb observe the universe? This animation takes you out to the Second Lagrange point (L2), beyond the Moon, the vantage point from where Web... | Continue reading
January 1, 2017 isn't just New Year's Day… it's also the Internet's 34rd birthday. On January 1, 1983, all the computer systems on the ARPANET, created by the Department of Defense in 1969, were required to switch over to the TCP/IP network protocol that it still uses today, givi … | Continue reading
A 12-year-old Big Mac, to be exact. | Continue reading
Imperial College London was founded in 1907. It is one of the top 20 universities in the world, and among the leading technical universities in Europe. Two individuals were central to its foundation. The first is 19th-century English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, who became know … | Continue reading
"We're not building a computer that executes at a PC, we're building a computer that takes AI graphs, lays them out naturally as graphs, then executes in par... | Continue reading
Portugal has recorded 58,530 new infections with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a new high since the start of the pandemic, and 49 more deaths associated with covid-19, indicate figures released today by the Directorate General of Health (DGS). | Continue reading
Google is filing a Motion to Dismiss the Texas Attorney General’s antitrust lawsuit over advertising technology | Continue reading
Let’s be honest, spending tons of time moving data around is not a fun or valuable activity for software engineers. Most of the tooling to… | Continue reading
TSA revealed that unlawful immigrants who are unable to obtain proper identification are being allowed to pass through security using an arrest warrant to prove their identity. | Continue reading
How much do we pay for a system to be programmable? It depends upon who you ask. | Continue reading
I created a remote dev environment with Coder, installed the editor (code-server) as a PWA, and used VS Code as if it were a native app on my iPad. | Continue reading
The country cancels the mining licence for the Anglo-Australian firm's controversial $2.4bn project. | Continue reading
Tesla Inc shareholders urged a judge on Tuesday to find Elon Musk coerced the company's board into a 2016 deal for SolarCity and asked that the chief executive be ordered to pay the electric vehicle company one of the largest judgments ever of $13 billion. | Continue reading
The government asked owners to turn in their pets for culling after Covid-19 cases were linked to pet shops. Volunteers are saying no, mobilizing across the city to save the rodents. | Continue reading