WiFi is an ubiquitous feature of the modern landscape, but due to power restrictions on most hardware alongside the high-frequency signal it’s typically fairly limited in range. This of cours… | Continue reading
Lockdowns initiated to curb the spread of the coronavirus in China and Europe at the beginning of the pandemic improved air quality, averting tens of thousands of deaths in regions where air pollution has a significant impact on mortality, a new study shows. | Continue reading
After months of technology-based communication enforced by COVID-19, many of us are missing a "live" human voice. But we're not the only ones—a new study reveals that cows also prefer a face-to-face chat. The research, published in Frontiers in Psychology, discovers that cows are … | Continue reading
API stands for Application Programming Interface, and they are widely used in programming for communication between servers | Continue reading
Food and beverage, like many other features of events, will need to be adapted moving forward to ensure compliance with current health and safety guidelines. What will this look like as live events start to resume? | Continue reading
The latest update to the Vivaldi web browser comes with an arcade game baked inside. You're not misreading me; I did say an arcade game. The bods behind | Continue reading
The Video Game History Foundation is working to save the history of the making of video games. On Oct 30th they are doing a live stream special event to help raise money and I'll be a guest talking about the making of Monkey Island where you can ask me questions (as long as it's … | Continue reading
New research indicates that glitter could be causing ecological damage to our rivers and lakes. | Continue reading
English has become the de facto language of science: International conferences are held in English, the world's top scientific journals are in English and academics in non-English speaking countries get promoted based on their publications in English language journals. Even scien … | Continue reading
The US dairy industry contributes roughly 1.58 percent of the total US greenhouse gas emissions; however, it also supplies the protein requirements of 169 million people, calcium requirements of 254 million people, and energy requirements of 71.2 million people. A suggested solut … | Continue reading
Hungry giant predators, treacherous mud and a tired, probably cranky toddler—more than 10,000 years ago, that was the stuff of every parent's nightmare. | Continue reading
Plans to release a virus to reduce numbers of invasive Common Carp in Australia are unlikely to work and should be dropped, researchers say. | Continue reading
Led by Dr. Amy Pickering and Dr. Joana Alves, the lab replaced single-use plastics with re-useable equipment. Where alternatives were not available, the group decontaminated and re-used plastic equipment which would have usually been thrown away after one use. "We knew that we we … | Continue reading
To date in 2020, 1,217 wildfires have burned 1,473,522 million acres of National Forest System lands in California; 8,486 wildfires have burned over 4 million acres across all jurisdictions in California. This current fire activity comes after forests in the region experienced an … | Continue reading
PRPL is a pattern for structuring and serving web applications and Progressive Web Apps with an emphasis on improved app delivery and launch performance. | Continue reading
Low dairy consumption is common among low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); however, with the demand for milk in these countries projected to increase over the next few decades, there is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people from the nutritional benefits o … | Continue reading
Feared "Manifest V3" changes now available in Edge beta and stable releases. | Continue reading
Mapping between types can create some interesting challenges. Michal has one of those scenarios. The code comes to us heavily anonymized, but let’s see what we can do to understand the problem and the solution.There is a type called ItemA. ItemA is a model object on one side of a … | Continue reading
We all love to take credit for the work that we are proud of and there is nothing wrong with that. Whenever we work on the project, we put… | Continue reading
In the last post we looked at what tilemaps are and how they’re used in SF2, and ended with a mention of how multiple layers (or scrolls) of tilemaps can be moved at different amounts to achi… | Continue reading
Residents will be able to stop companies from tracking their locations and behavior. | Continue reading
node-badger a framework for building node applications. | Continue reading
Exclusive: The Clop ransomware gang is demanding more than $20 million from German tech firm Software AG. | Continue reading
New research from the Center for Democracy and Technology aims to help security researchers decide what level of risk is acceptable for them and their work. | Continue reading
Babel was hard enough. A GDPR compliant multilingual language selector. | Continue reading
Deception in a field that is meant to unravel reality | Continue reading
When you reinvent the wheel, you might miss a few spokes. | Continue reading
Dieser Beitrag erschien erstmals im Februar auf This is Jane Wayne. Vor wenigen Jahren, vermutlich war ich da gerade selbst Mutter geworden, schrieb ich ein paar Zeilen über das damals schon beliebte Jonglieren mit Begriffen, mithilfe derer die Menschheit seit geraumer Zeit versu … | Continue reading
MySQL 3.20 to 4.0 In the good old days, when 32MB of RAM justified the name my-huge.cnf, when nobody knew Google and Facebook didn’t even exist, security was… […] | Continue reading
PCG is a family of simple fast space-efficient statistically good algorithms for random number generation. Unlike many general-purpose RNGs, they are also hard to predict. | Continue reading
The pilot program intended to assist the city's arts community during the pandemic is drawing both interest and criticism from proponents of unconditional cash transfers. | Continue reading
These courses have made their materials available online to varying degrees. Some include video lessons. | Continue reading
Welcome to "Scare Tactics," a new video series focusing on the horror gaming genre. | Continue reading
Why the ingrained expectation that women should desire to become parents is unhealthy | Continue reading
A cheat sheet for JavaScript lookahead and lookbehind regular expressions. | Continue reading
- By CABI - Scientists from the UK’s foremost agricultural research institutes have teamed up to create a new UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank (UK-CMCB) to safeguard future research and facilitate the... | Continue reading