Researchers have developed a new material that speeds up evaporation, enabling solar stills to provide the water requirements of a family. | Continue reading

Machine learning, especially deep learning, is forcing a re-evaluation of how chips and systems are designed that will change the direction of the industry for decades to come. | Continue reading

All revolutionary movements seek to sanctify their lawless behaviour as a spontaneous eruption of righteous fury. In some cases, such as the Euromaidan movement in Ukraine, this conceit is justified. But usually their violence is a pre-meditated tactic to intimidate adversaries. … | Continue reading

Facebook Inc will face unprecedented regulatory scrutiny over a new digital curr... | Continue reading

Claire Armitstead in The Guardian: When Guy Gunaratne was a teenager he would catch the bus home from school in north-west London, listening out for the chat of his fellow passengers. “Like this one kid who said to his friend, ‘Come on, you’re moving like molasses.’ That rattled … | Continue reading

Transactions! If you know how to cook them they can be a real life saver when it comes to dealing with inconsistent data. But... There... | Continue reading

“There is nothing more revealing than to see a thinking person walking, just as there is nothing more revealing than to see a walking person thinking… Walking and thinking are in a perp… | Continue reading

Emma Brockes in The Guardian: There is something very moving about the conversation between these young women, a sense of generational rise that, as we know from every precedent from the Renaissance onwards, has the power to ignite movements and change history. Alexandria Ocasio- … | Continue reading

If the "mirrorverse" exists, upcoming experiments involving subatomic particles could reveal it. | Continue reading

While a big part of writing testable code comes down to how our dependencies are managed, how we structure and manage our testing data is often equally important. This week, let’s take a look at a few different techniques that can enable us to define such data more easily — and h … | Continue reading

Not a week goes by when I don't get a request to post an article on this site. You'll notice that I never do so. Not because I'm an asshole, but because it's too time consuming for me to vet who folks are, what they're selling, and so forth. You'll also notice that I do occasiona … | Continue reading

Shopify is one of the largest Ruby on Rails codebases in existence. It has been worked on for over a decade by more than a thousand developers. It encapsulates a lot of diverse functionality from billing merchants, managing 3rd party developer apps, updating products, handling sh … | Continue reading

The subway is always a good hunting ground for candid photographs. I was initially intrigued by this composition because of the red coke can and red bag he was holding. However the more I thought a… | Continue reading

Do you know all 203 moons of the Solar System?! | Continue reading

After years of taking the decibel unit for granted, I finally did some research, and it turns out the decibel is actually pretty interesting. | Continue reading

By KIP SULLIVAN, JD  Three weeks ago I posted a comment here about a decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court in the case of Warren v. Dinter. In that case, the court held, by a 5-2 margin, tha… | Continue reading

The need to handle large programs and to produce ecient compiled codeadds complexity to programming languages and limits their expressiveness.Algorithms are not programs, and they can be expressed in a simpler and more expressive language. That language is the one used by almost … | Continue reading