In this edition of DTV Descent, we offer up an Inside Man Most Wanted review, looking at the low-budget sequel to Spike Lee's biggest hit. | Continue reading
New Year's Eve is a great time to have the tradition of making a family time capsule. Here are some suggestions on what to put in a time capsule... | Continue reading
Allows Snap Circuits connectors to integrate with LEGOs and other such building bricks. | Continue reading
Cybercrimes are disastrous. Businesses, governments, and individuals are singled out by cybercriminals. Use three strategies to burst cybercrime in 2020. | Continue reading
AI and algorithmic decision-making raised important civil liberties issues in 2019, with developments good, bad, and in-between.Starting off in the “disappointing” category, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced in August that it was considering new … | Continue reading
Saying no to the expensive dream schools may hurt now, but a debt-free life is worth it. | Continue reading
The Latte Dock v0.10 development release adds floating panel support and two new visibility modes, letting you add an iOS-style dock to KDE Plasma desktop. | Continue reading
An Observable notebook by Vladimir Agafonkin. | Continue reading
Russia’s central bank, The Bank of Russia, has reportedly started testing stablecoins pegged to real assets in a regulatory sandbox. | Continue reading
A problem with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft prevented it from visiting the ISS on its first flight to space | Continue reading
Apropos the previous post, Roger Bartlett wrote: Having coined the term 'bokeh' you have a track record for instigating new stuff—so if such a lens were to be created, no matter who the manufacturer, then a lens with this feature... | Continue reading
China Friday launched one of the world's most powerful rockets in a major step forward for its planned mission to Mars in 2020. | Continue reading
A union-backed police charity spends just a sliver of its money on those it purports to serve | Continue reading
Ever thought topology and complex analysis could help you optimize your GPU data transfers ? How about non-classical mathematics ? Yeah, thought not. | Continue reading
Tropical Cyclone Sarai barrelled off the coast of Fiji early Saturday, forcing hundreds of residents to move to higher ground ahead of possible flooding. | Continue reading
No if it remains what it should never have ceased to be: a game! | Continue reading
Someone emailed me: What approach to building a site should I take? Build a single responsive website Build a site on a single domain, but detect mobile, | Continue reading
On a Baltic Sea island once used by the Nazis for biological weapon research, German scientists are developing virus vaccines that could save lives. | Continue reading
Florida is known for many things. It is home to VC’s stalwart, Geolurking. It has beach life, of the teenage variety. It has Disneyland, of the toddler-of-any-age variety. It has launched space mis… | Continue reading
But Chinese Android brands such as Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo and Realme still have more than half of the country's smartphone market | Continue reading
Photos of my daughter in the last decade, in roughly chronological order, starting and ending with birthday photos from 2010 and 2019, respectively. It's been a privilege to be here as she's grown up. I wouldn't have missed a moment of it for all the treasures of the world. I can … | Continue reading
Camp Aerial is a transforming Portaledge that is fast to set up, functional on both flat grounds and rock walls, and provides protection from fierce weather conditions. Big Wall Climbs are an increasingly popular sport with more people attempting bigger challenges, and leading at … | Continue reading
From Week #14: What I want to say to the designer of this motorized lift for the disabled: "Yeah, looks real cool. Where the fuck is the rest of it?" From Week #15: "Over time, using these chairs may put some wear on the steel edges. If that | Continue reading
California has given counties more than $8 billion to handle thousands of new inmates. But lax spending rules and limited scrutiny have allowed some sheriffs to use that money for other things, which may violate state law. | Continue reading
Brian Kim Stefans at Poetry Magazine: I often think that my obsession with Ezra Pound’s poetry was due to his well-known formula “DICHTEN = CONDENSARE” (dichten means “to write poetry” but also “to seal” or “to tighten” in German) or to those chestnuts from “A Few Don’ts by an Im … | Continue reading
Looking ahead to the year to come, Dan Moren lays out some of the big things to expect (and not) out of Cupertino. | Continue reading
You might have gift cards! | Continue reading
Here is the best anime of the decade, from sweeping action stories to brainy science fiction to more low-key relationship tales. | Continue reading
Efforts to save many endangered animals from extinction are doomed to fail as conservationists are not taking climate change into account | Continue reading
Hannah Stamler at Artforum: Unlike Armstrong or Cukor, who stay true to Alcott’s timeline, Gerwig begins in the middle of the narrative, depicting the second half of the book while weaving in scenes drawn from the first. We open on the March sisters in their late teens or early t … | Continue reading
2019 was a banner year for data exposures, with billions of people affected. | Continue reading
Mallika Rao at The Believer: Jugaad is a hack, a hustle, a fix. It’s a lot from a little, the best with what you’ve got—which is likely not much, if you need jugaad. A “very DU word,” a Delhi University grad once explained to me, and I thought about how college students as a rule … | Continue reading
Andrew Elrod in Dissent: A facility that saw 53,000 emergency room visits per year disappeared from Philadelphia this summer with the prolonged and still-unfinished closure of Hahnemann University Hospital. The 496-bed hospital employed 2,700 people and saw 17,000 admissions in 2 … | Continue reading
The Long March-5 rocket, China's largest carrier rocket, was successfully launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province on Friday night. | Continue reading
Surface electromyography (sEMG) is widely used to investigate human motion including athletic performance. Baseball pitchers require very precise movements to pitch the ball to the strike zone, where the palm muscle plays a key role during movement. Recording the sEMG from the pa … | Continue reading
Cira, the organization that manages the .ca top-level domain, is offering a free stock photo library featuring typically Canadia | Continue reading
Everyone thinks they’re hiring the top 1%. Martin Fowler: “We are still working hard to hire only the very top fraction of software developers (the target is around the top 0.5 to … | Continue reading
Central Asia, between China and Europe, is bustling | Continue reading
The company said it will pause political advertising in early 2020. | Continue reading