As developers, we want to reduce fear of our code failing and increase trust in our code working well. Many developers working with JavaScript borrow | Continue reading
Help MIT Annual Fund reach 500 Donors for the project: A 500-Donor Challenge for OCW. A donation of any amount can make a difference! | Continue reading
There is a recurring theme I see with novice developers. They've put in their time to learn the basics of a programming language or two and they feel pretty comfortable doing programming exercises, but they don't know how to apply what they've learned. It usually comes in a phras … | Continue reading
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Is looking at how someone works “under pressure” a good thing? | Continue reading
Moments after the big bang, calculations show the universe could have collapsed into black holes. The reason it didn’t could be explained by the Higgs boson | Continue reading
The US Copyright Office has published a list of new exemptions to the DMCA's anti-circumvention rules. Several new freedoms were granted this year, including the right for preservation institutions to break DRM to play abandoned online games. It's a small change that only applies … | Continue reading
The Library of Congress expanded the types of DRM that can be legally broken. | Continue reading
Wine for EVE Online at WineConf 2018 in The Hague, by Snorri Sturluson. | Continue reading
Apple will unveil new iPads, but the Mac prospects are even more intriguing. | Continue reading
Golang Tutorials for Beginners. Learn Go by Example. | Continue reading
A vulnerability that is trivial to exploit allows privilege escalation to root level on Linux and BSD distributions using X.Org server, the open source implementation of the X Window System that offers the graphical environment. | Continue reading
Chad Walde believed in his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then he got a rare brain cancer linked to radiation, and the government denied it had any responsibility. | Continue reading
In an excerpt from ‘The Library Book’ — inspired by a historic California library fire — Susan Orlean challenges her respect for the printed word with a match and a copy of ‘Fahr… | Continue reading
The Strand, New York City’s largest independent bookstore, is owned by a millionaire — and the booksellers who work there are all broke. | Continue reading
Circle Medical is a Y Combinator-backed startup that is reimagining primary care from the ground up. We combine technology and artificial intelligence with some of the nation's best physicians to deliver a better experience that scales faster and more efficiently than ever before … | Continue reading
A New Chinese Missile Could Cripple American Air Power | Continue reading
Breaking down barriers between users & programmers | Continue reading
Officially designated by Heckler & Koch as the ‘Spezialkoffer’ or Special Case, the Briefcase Gun, sometimes referred to as the Operational Briefcase, is a clandestine weapon system… | Continue reading
Scientists say just 1 cubic centimetre of the carbon nanotube material won’t break under the weight of more than 800 tonnesTsinghua University researchers are trying to get the fibre into mass production for use in military or other areas | Continue reading
I’ve been looking a bit at DCT algorithms recently. Most fast DCTs are designed under two assumptions that are worth re-examining: 1. Multiplies are a lot more expensive than additions and sh… | Continue reading
Just blocks away from the press museum is a George W. Bush Street, and another named for the Russophobic late Polish President Lech Kaczynski. | Continue reading
The 'keeper test' is reportedly employed by CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings. | Continue reading
Most programs encourage the purchase of privately owned electric vehicles but that's not where the highest ecological impact will be, says WSJ Leadership Expert James Allen. | Continue reading
Mr. Handsome (Fuji X-H1, radical center crop) As usual when a new camera arrives, the first thing I did when the Fuji X-H1 got here was to wander around my quotidian environs snapping meaningless snaps, because, what else are ya... | Continue reading
By Robert Barton – Senior Big Data Platform Engineer At King, data helps us understand the full picture of our games, from prototype to fully live product, and how our hundreds of millions of monthly active users are engaging with our games. On any given day, more than a hundred … | Continue reading
Researchers and autistic artists are exploring immersive visuals to study and simulate autism traits | Continue reading
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Before, conservatives insisted the bomber’s method told us everything about his ideology. Now they insist it tells us nothing. | Continue reading
What does fairness look like when artificial intelligence shapes decision-making? How can we create AI in a way that reflects diverse communities and complex social dynamics? “A People's Guide to Artificial Intelligence” is now available. | Continue reading