Event Store today announces it has secured Series A financing from strategic investor Qualasept Holdings (‘QH’). The Series A investment represents Event Store’s next stage of growth towards EventStoreDB’s adoption in the broader database market. | Continue reading
Recently there was a minor controversy over a blogpost from Coinbase’s CEO discouraging employees from thinking about politics, and encouraging them to focus on profit-making. | Continue reading
I decided to write an article about a thing that is second nature to embedded systems programmers – low level bit hacks. Bit hacks are ingenious little programming tricks that manipulate integers in a smart and efficient manner. Instead of performing operations (such as counting … | Continue reading
Some of Europe's biggest car giants including BMW and Jaguar Land Rover use leather linked to deforestation in South America, threatening the most vulnerable tribes, environmental campaigners Earthsight claimed on Wednesday. | Continue reading
Canadian based D-Wave has announced on its blog that it has developed a new quantum computer for use by businesses. Called Advantage, the new system has 5,000 qubits and 15-way qubit connectivity. The new machine will be made available to business customers over the Internet via … | Continue reading
Spring has arrived, and all over the country the hills and riversides are burnished with the green and gold of Australian wattles, all belonging to the genus Acacia. | Continue reading
Regular attendance in schools is a factor that affects positive and healthy childhood development. Students with poor school attendance are at an increased risk for a number of negative outcomes. Students who experience chronic stress, such as socio-economic disadvantage, mental … | Continue reading
“Horrific.” “A total mess.” “An embarrassment.” “A national humiliation.” “An epic moment of national shame.” “Off the rails.” “A pure trainwreck.” “A hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a trainwreck.” “A stressful, chaotic trash fire.” “A shitshow.” “The great American shitsh … | Continue reading
Is it a new asteroid mini–moon or a human-made mini-moon? That's the question about a small object approaching Earth, called 2020 SO. NASA's Small Body Database predicts the object will captured by Earth's gravity in October 2020 and temporarily be trapped in orbit. | Continue reading
In a study of gorilla skeletons collected in the wild, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers and their international collaborators report that aging female gorillas do not experience the accelerated bone loss associated with the bone-weakening condition called osteoporosis, as their … | Continue reading
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has used a 3-D tumor model and magnetically driven nanomotors to probe the microenvironment of cancer cells. The team consists of researchers from the Center for Nano Science and Engineering (CeN … | Continue reading
A trio of researchers, two with Philipps-University Marburg, the other with the University of Würzburg, has discovered how a sun compass works in the brain of the desert locust. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Frederick Zittrell, Keram … | Continue reading
Invisibility is a superior self-protection strategy of long-standing interest in academia and industry, although the concept is thus far most popularly encountered in science fiction. In a new report on Science Advances, Su Xu and colleagues in engineering, nanotechnology, nanobi … | Continue reading
A team of researchers from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Charles University and the Max Planck Research Group Neurobiology of Magnetoreception, has found that Ansell's mole-rats use their eyes to orient their nesting habits based on the Earth's magnetic field. In their paper, … | Continue reading
Ubuntu 20.10 includes a new icon for the Ubiquity installer (the Ubuntu install tool). Not exactly breaking news but it's an important usability fix. | Continue reading
(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The TV Series: A Wilderness of Error Where You Can Stream It: FX on Hulu The Pitch: A docu-series based on the book by aw … | Continue reading
This was a pretty long show. | Continue reading
The modernization of Pixelmator continues apace with the addition of more iPad-friendly features in version 2.6. Earlier this year, Pixelmator 2.5 added the native iOS and iPadOS document browser along with nine categories of preset image templates. The latest version picks up wh … | Continue reading
National Press Secretary for the Trump campaign Hogan Gidley on Wednesday tried to clean up the President’s refusal to condemn... | Continue reading
The first data are in for Regeneron’s COVID-19 antibody cocktail—and they’re encouraging. The top dose of the treatment lowered virus levels and relieved symptoms more quickly than placebo in patients infected with COVID-19 but not sick enough to be hospitalized. | Continue reading
Array.map() is a very useful function but unfortunately it only works with synchronous functions. A simple workaround to run async map… | Continue reading
There is one correct way to install Java on macOS. If you don't follow it, everything will work... until you need to switch which version you're using. | Continue reading
Great adults are built from a very young age. Become a better parent by getting more involved in your child's development. Get accustomed content for your child, read articles on the most important child development topics, test them and increase their skills with fun exercises. … | Continue reading
Scientific workloads have traditionally exploited high levels of sparsity toaccelerate computation and reduce memory requirements. While deep neuralnetworks can be made sparse, achieving... | Continue reading
The LibreTexts libraries collectively are a multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access texts to improve postsecondary education. | Continue reading
Social media platforms are our modern digital public squares in which the public, press, and policymakers come together on what amounts to digital private property to debate our nations future.... | Continue reading
Questions are swirling following the conclusion of the first of three scheduled presidential debate about whether or not the remaining... | Continue reading
Working memory isn't confined to one area of the brain. It requires synchronous activity of at least two brain areas. | Continue reading
Five-month study finds sustained methane reductions with no changes in animal health or beef quality. | Continue reading
Arm is leading a UK government research program called the Morello Project, which focuses on the development of more robust processors that can deter security breaches. | Continue reading
Today we are launching a new service, Cloudflare Radar, that shines a light on the Internet’s patterns. | Continue reading
Having had a night to sleep on it – and sleep very soundly – I’m much closer to what I... | Continue reading
Lange habe ich mich gegen massive Möbel gewehrt. Gegen solche, die ich niemals ganz allein oder mit ein paar Freundinnen an der Seite hätte raus tragen können. Weil ich ja sowieso nirgendwo bleiben wollte, jedenfalls nicht lange. Auf der Durchreise sein, das war mir lieb, in jede … | Continue reading
“Incogmeato” is a delightfully bad name. | Continue reading
According to Mobile Marketing Watch, mobile penetration has reached 95%. Here are SMS surveys and how to increase your response rate. | Continue reading
Everything you'll need to stock a full Jamaican pantry. | Continue reading
An international team of astronomers has discovered a new gas giant alien world as part of the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). The newly found exoplanet, designated NGTS-12b, is about the size of Jupiter, but more than four times less massive than the solar system's bigges … | Continue reading