See Other Entries of the Games That Pushed The Limits Series As somebody that has a computer science background, I’m always fascinated by games that are the work of skilled developers that learned the intricacies of a console’s hardware to squeeze every last bit of performance fr … | Continue reading
Farmers are scrambling to cash in on the CBD boom. But when their hemp crops tip over the .3% legal limit for THC, they lose everything. | Continue reading
Most Californians are aware that the way property taxes in the state are divvied out is uneven, skewed by a state law known as Proposition 13 that could be amended next year through a vote at the ballot box. But a recent report outlining property values in Santa Clara County brea … | Continue reading
A new project reveals not just where birds live now—but where they’ll live decades from now. | Continue reading
There’s something to be said for making your own tech tools; you certainly know quickly if something goes awry (though you cannot complain much about the tool provider). Something I made firs… | Continue reading
His new book is coming out in January, and the subtitle is The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class. I will get to the details shortly, but my bottom-line review is “Not as controversial as you might think,” but do note the normalization at the end of that phrase. Here is one bit f … | Continue reading
A Pentagon proposal would retire the first four LCS in an effort to save money. | Continue reading
How UX design is impacting the way we binge watch television. | Continue reading
ESPN has debute The Last Dance trailer chronicling the Chicago Bulls during their 1997-98 season, Michael Jordan’s final season as a Chicago Bull. | Continue reading
With the help of our developers, we have gathered top Haskell highlights of 2019 in one place. Check out if there’s anything you have missed. | Continue reading
What drives us to buy fashion? And in a climate crisis, how do we tackle our consumption guilt and change our relationship with what we wear? | Continue reading
The list of curated resources and software engineering blog posts for 2019-12-27 | Continue reading
Special thanks to Gav Knafo for his quantitative analysis work which made this article possible. We reverse engineered Instagram’s algorithm to find the magic number of likes it takes to viral. I commissioned a 3-day study that followed 31 posts, tracking likes and comments at di … | Continue reading
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The most life-changing mindset I learned in the past five years is “Growth Mindset.” It’s from the book “Mindset” by Dr. Carol Dweck — a… | Continue reading
Our ending begins with a ghost story. | Continue reading
On betting, predictions, and the language we use to forecast | Continue reading
On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Tom Lyon, Sun employee #8, network storage pioneer and systems software polymath. Join us as Tom recounts losing bits in the hallway at Princeton, the peril of software-refreshed DRAM, and how to write a token ring driver from scratc … | Continue reading
Instant rental comps and property investment analysis | Continue reading
Breaking up big firms like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google could make things worse. | Continue reading
Cristiano Ronaldo made $47.8 million in 2019 from 49 sponsored Instagram posts. | Continue reading
The Common Voice corpus is a massively-multilingual collection of transcribedspeech intended for speech technology research and development. Common Voice isdesigned for Automatic Speech... | Continue reading
As we head into 2020, the number of hydrogen cars available to the public is still dreadfully low. There are less than a handful of them and existing infrastructure is woefully behind anything that would sustain any realistic, widespread usage. But had automakers invested in hydr … | Continue reading
From traditional hand-drawn work to cutting edge CG animation, these movies represent the 10 best animated shorts of the decade. | Continue reading
An Exchange 2007 real world situation in which a mailbox clean up inadvertently generated thousands of read receipts. | Continue reading
Maybe you love yourself. Maybe you don’t. Either way, this question will put some distance inside your head between you and your actions… | Continue reading
Well here we are, the end of another year. I should offer my apologies for the slowdown in posts in recent weeks – real life has been all-consuming with one thing and another so work on the b… | Continue reading
Exploring how we can use sound data and machine learning in JavaScript to recognise human activities to augment smart systems. | Continue reading
Second screens and the sickness unto death. | Continue reading
The Central Bank of the Bahamas (CBOB) is planning to introduce a digital version of the Bahamian dollar in the Exuma district. According to an official press release, the CBOB will launch its digital… | Continue reading
Bay Area parents are using these right now… | Continue reading
In 2019, gig workers across the United States suffered a series of changes to their pay algorithm that have left many scrambling to pay for food and utilities, and seeking assistance from charities over the holidays. | Continue reading
Mayor London Breed calls for more street cleaning as man uses a Marina Safeway aisle as a toilet. That’s while city is spending $257,534 a day to keep the place tidy, without much effect. | Continue reading
El Reg pulls up a chair next to the fire and chats to box giant's CEO Antonio Neri | Continue reading
So I haven’t posted a tweet in nine months. How am I doing? I’m still in recovery. Over the previous 10 years, I had written 180,000 tweets. Yes, I said 180,000. That’s 18,000 a year, 1,500 a month… | Continue reading