Hot on the heels of Linode offering up AMD EPYC processors, DigitalOcean has started to offer “premium” CPUs as part of their Shared CPU Basic plans. Unfortunately, this new offering comes with a slightly elevated price, clocking in at $6 per month instead of $5. This new product … | Continue reading
By the way, Charlie Chaplin really got screwed. | Continue reading
Apple has confirmed Comcent as the first community media app on the Apple App Store. This signifies a significant win for the tech in Ghana | Continue reading
Our portfolio company SoundCloud is introducing fan powered royalties to share revenues more equitably with musicians. The streaming music business pools its revenues and pays out based on a mathematical formula. There is no direct connection between a fan and artist. This graphi … | Continue reading
Cloud provisioning is a critical element of the modern cloud computing model. We live in the age of microservices, where automation is not a nice-to-have anymore. It became an integral part of everyday operations. | Continue reading
The first observations of a space hurricane have been revealed in Earth's upper atmosphere, confirming their existence and shedding new light on the relationship between planets and space. | Continue reading
An ideal reality. A formal game. The poetry of logical ideas. Or none of the above. | Continue reading
Finding a voice for difficult data | Continue reading
Today we’re introducing the newest member of the Microsoft Power Platform family: Microsoft Power Fx, an open source formula language for low code that’s based on Microsoft Excel. | Continue reading
Fog Linen Work founder Yumiko Sekine's new book, 'Simplicity at Home,' is full of thoughtful solutions for decluttering, decor, DIY—and more. | Continue reading
A research team led by CU Boulder has designed a new kind of synthetic "skin" as slippery as the scales of a snake. | Continue reading
In order to realize the full potential of reforestation in the United States, the nation's tree nurseries need to increase seedling production by an additional 1.7 billion each year, a 2.4-fold increase over current nursery production. These numbers, taken from a new study, show … | Continue reading
Catastrophic floods due to the emptying or rupture of glacial lakes in Chilean Patagonia have taken place cyclically since the last glacial maximum 10,000 years ago. Nevertheless, the magnitude of these mountain 'tsunamis' has declined over time, according to a paper published in … | Continue reading
Since they came into use in 1938, electron microscopes have played a pivotal role in a host of scientific advances, including the discovery of new proteins and therapeutics and contributions made to the electronics revolution. But the field of electron microscopy must incorporate … | Continue reading
SoilGrids250m 2.0 - A system for digital soil mapping based on global compilation of soil profile data and environmental layers | Continue reading
How many new particles has the LHC discovered? The most widely known discovery is of course that of the Higgs boson. Less well known is the fact that, over the past 10 years, the LHC experiments have also found more than 50 new particles called hadrons. Coincidentally, the number … | Continue reading
Six healthy alternatives to doomscrolling. | Continue reading
If there is anyone that knows what it’s like to spend long periods of time alone, it’s lighthouse keepers. Serena Coady gets advice from former custodians about how to weather the loneliness of the pandemic | Continue reading
Few terms are more ubiquitous in the scientific arena these days than "quantum." | Continue reading
Accounting firms that overwork their employees are less likely to produce high-quality audits—even if the employees are satisfied with their careers, according to new research from the University at Buffalo School of Management. | Continue reading
While consumers look out for the Dolphin Safe mark on seafood purchases, a major research stocktake of Australian-New Zealand waters gives new guidelines to managers of dolphin fisheries. | Continue reading
Across the nation, environmentally minded scientists and engineers are leading a new generation of nuclear reactor designs. They see nuclear power as a clean, carbon-free energy source along with hydropower, wind, and solar. | Continue reading
Today, we’re sharing information about a state-sponsored threat actor identified by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) that we are calling Hafnium. Hafnium operates from China, and this is the first time we’re discussing its activity. It is a highly skilled and soph … | Continue reading
Southern Politics and Government from the Heart of Tennessee | Continue reading
"A problem well put is half solved" - John Dewey | Continue reading
Climate experts have revealed that rising temperatures will intensify future rainfall extremes at a much greater rate than average rainfall, with largest increases to short thunderstorms. | Continue reading
Despite a century of measurements, astronomers can't agree on the rate at which the universe is expanding. A technique that relies on measuring distances to a specific type of aging star in other galaxies—called the J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch, or JAGB method—might be able t … | Continue reading
Just as James Cameron's Terminator-800 was able to discriminate between "clothes, boots, and a motorcycle," machine-learning could identify different areas of interest on 2-D materials. | Continue reading
In recent years, strong TCs have been making landfalls in Japan, such as Typhoon Jebi in 2018, which severely hit the Kinki region, and Typhoon Hagibis in 2019, which severely hit eastern Japan. While Japan has suffered from a number of TC impacts throughout its history, meteorol … | Continue reading
Researcher Remco Hartkamp and Ph.D. student Max Döpke of the Process & Energy Department have taken an important step in making simulation results for electrokinetic transport more reliable by using molecular simulations. In electrokinetics, ions play an important role in the tra … | Continue reading
It's an idea worthy of a Jules Verne novel; a mysterious layer at the center of our planet. | Continue reading
Four strategies to break down the systemic barriers facing Black Americans. | Continue reading
The New York State Center for Clean Water Technology (CCWT) at Stony Brook University has made a series of critical discoveries regarding a new approach to protecting Long Island's drinking water, groundwater, and surface waters. Some of the discoveries involve the likely human c … | Continue reading
When and how bone marrow first originated in the limbs of early four-legged animals is disputed in evolutionary biology. With the help of powerful X-ray technology, an international research team, led by Uppsala University, has now discovered that this evolutionary adaptation mos … | Continue reading
Key to the usefulness of climate models as tools for both scientists and policymakers is the models' ability to connect changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas levels to corresponding shifts in temperature. Equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is one such measure, representing the … | Continue reading
Researchers from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed the response mechanism of rhizosphere microorganisms of deep-rooted leguminous plant to water and nitrogen changes in desert ecosystem. | Continue reading
With Education Secretary Miguel Cardona finally installed, the administration is intensifying its efforts to meet its 100 day-goal for in-person learning. | Continue reading
We separate the navigation logic from the view logic and implement deep-links in SwiftUI, using our new open-source library XUI. | Continue reading
The United States Capitol Police is bolstering security on Capitol Hill this week due to “concerning information and intelligence” related... | Continue reading
Open Source is everywhere. It is in many proprietary codebases and community projects. For organizations and individuals, the question today is not whether you are or are not using open-source code, but what open-source code you are using, and how much.If you are not aware of wha … | Continue reading
Die ACM-Konferenz für Fairness, Rechenschaftspflicht und Transparenz sieht Google aufgrund von Rassismusvorwürfen nicht länger als passenden Sponsor für 2021. | Continue reading
Przyjmujemy zgłoszenia do udziału w polskim stoisku na targach Bologna Children's Book Fair (14-17 czerwca) oraz The London Book Fair (29 czerwca - 1 lipca). Zainteresowanych prosimy o wysłanie formularza w terminie do 17 marca - poinform | Continue reading