Switzerland is set to switch off its first nuclear power station. But pressing the “off” button is just the start of an estimated 15-year process. | Continue reading
The Impractical Jokers movie trailers shows off the big screen debut of the comedians who have been embarrassing each other on TV since 2011. | Continue reading
We have updated the UCS Satellite Database, including launches through September 30, 2019. Lots of movement this time, with 209 satellites added and 53 removed for a total of 2,218 actively working satellites.Much of the growth is being driven by the deployment of large commercia … | Continue reading
Since we've launched ContractPatch, I've heard a lot of feedback from free software contributors about the successes they've had in negotiating their employment agreements. While not everyone has achieved full modification to the agreement, so far everyone who's reported back had … | Continue reading
- By Phil Siarri - As 2019 is coming to a close, here are ten technology-related articles I believe are worth revisiting. 1/ How WeWork spiraled from a $47 billion valuation to talk of bankruptcy in... | Continue reading
Thanks to the arrival of low-cost tablets, odds are that Amazon’s never going to make a Kindle with a color ePaper display. But E Ink still thinks there’s a market for high-contrast, low-power color displays — the company has introduced a new color E Ink display technology. It’s … | Continue reading
Get brand name ideas and domain name suggestions for your startup, business, company or side-project. | Continue reading
Claire Stapleton didn't just buy into the lore of Google—she helped write it. What happened when the bard of Google became one of its most vocal critics? | Continue reading
Tesla has officially launched “Acceleration Boost,” a $2,000 over-the-air software upgrade that makes the 0 to 60 mph acceleration of the Model 3 Dual Motor Long Range go down to 3.9 seconds. As we reported yesterday, the news leaked on the fine print of Tesla’s website in the up … | Continue reading
The deal will combine Shape's anti-fraud capabilities with F5 Networks' multi-cloud application protection services. | Continue reading
Apple has quietly added a year-in-review feature and playlist to Apple Music, but you won’t find it in iTunes or the Music app. Here’s the trick to accessing it. | Continue reading
Make was created in 1976 by Stuart Feldman at Bell Labs to help build C programs. But how can this 40+ year old piece of software help us develop and maintain our ever-growing amount of cloud-based microservices? | Continue reading
The list of curated resources and software engineering blog posts for 2019-12-20 | Continue reading
I read 25 books in 2019. That’s slightly more than last year, largely due to my discovery of the Kindle iOS and MacOS apps. The iOS can scroll continuously instead of flipping between discrete pages, which is ideal for the kind of non-fiction books I like to read. I still read on … | Continue reading
During an incident at Digg, a coworker once quipped, “We serve funny cat pictures, who cares if we’re down for a little while?” If that’s your attitude towards reliability, then you probably don’t need to formalize handling incidents, but if you believe what you’re doing matters … | Continue reading
The Trump administration, not known for its attention to detail, chalked it up to a lack of attention to detail. | Continue reading
Forget Big Brother. We have much more to worry about from the numerous “Tiny Brother” location data companies that track our every movement via software embedded in smartphone apps. | Continue reading
Besides being useful as a tasty seasoning for food, garlic has several documented health benefits that make it a popular item for consumption in lots of different forms. Aged Garlic Extract has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease. Garlic has been shown to treat fatigue … | Continue reading
In this companion post to “Dart declaration-site variance”, hear about an intern‘s experience with Google’s Dart team. | Continue reading
This is an extract from the internal documentation I wrote for React Screenshot Test, a library I recently built to make it easy to write… | Continue reading
The Eclipse Foundation - home to a global community, the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE and over 350 open source projects, including runtimes, tools and frameworks. | Continue reading
Did you know that Angular can generate static sites now? With Scully, it’s now possible! In this episode, Tara Z. Manicsic teaches us how to create JAMstack sites with Angular and Scully. | Continue reading
Just a week after hackers broke into a Ring camera in a child’s bedroom, taunting the child and sparking serious concerns about the company’s security practices, Buzzfeed News is reporting that over 3,600 Ring owners’ email addresses, passwords, camera locations, and camera names … | Continue reading
Donnie Yen returns for one final round as the martial arts master, as he moves to the United States to start a new life in the Ip Man 4 trailer. | Continue reading
Sissi (Bologna, 1977) emerges at the end of the 1990s, very young and still a student at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, revealing herself to be one of the most brilliant representatives of ar | Continue reading
Security researchers have determined that 267 million Facebook users’ phone numbers, names and user IDs were exposed in a database. | Continue reading
How many times have you made a mad dash out the door only to realize your kids didn't eat breakfast or hadn't finished? I've done that a few times over | Continue reading
This question occupied my mind last night as I slept. | Continue reading
Cliqz's self-learning anti-tracking: Past, Present, Future | Continue reading
In the heart of Chile’s Atacama Desert thousands of boulders, some exceeding 5 ... | Continue reading
In this blog post, I would like to share some insights into how to think about building and managing Machine Learning teams if you are a manager, and also possibly help you get a job in Machine Learning if you are a job seeker. | Continue reading
Here’s a story for the holidays about how online worlds keep families connected, even across generations. It starts a decade or so ago with an artist named Jeff Berg, who discovered a burgeoning new virtual world called Second Life. So... | Continue reading
Maskable icons are a new icon format that give you more control and let your Progressive Web App use adaptive icons. By supplying a maskable icon, your icon can look great on all Android devices. | Continue reading
Don’t worry about making reservations; Dixon Roadside, like its sister Phoenicia Diner, doesn’t take them. It won’t even have normal table service, but a counter service and staff to run orders to people…sort of like the classic old roadside spots of 50, 60 years back. | Continue reading