A mathematical derivation on how to create a unbiased coin given a biased coin

The God Machine

We’ve come a long way in the last couple of centuries and our lives have improved significantly. But the path to get to where we are now was not always

When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem— if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything…

Archives says it has alerted Department of Justice about former president’s removal of files from White House

Luxury homes and a thriving gold trade have been a magnet for corruption

The James Webb telescope has taken exceptional images of an unexceptional star as a test of its capabilities. The star, known as HD84406.

One man is challenging Nigerians' belief in magic after a wave of killings that has gripped the country.

World’s first CPU designed for terabyte-scale accelerated computing.

I’ve been programming since 1999. This year I’ve officially coded for 20+ years. I’ve started with Basic but soon jumped into Pascal and C…

Employers are trying desperately to ignore that we’ve become fundamentally different humans

In May 2021 I took a sabbatical to take care of family, but things did not go as planned.

Eavesdropping flourished after WW II, aided by legal loopholes, clever hacks, and “private ears”

Earlier this week, I was writing a Dockerfile to download and run a binary when I noticed the image size was way more than what I would expect. I’m using ubuntu:21.10 as the base image, which is about 70MB. The binary I’m running is about 80MB. Other packages…

The genome-edited cattle were bred to endure climate change, and their offspring will be used in meat production.

Cortisol, the “stress hormone,” alters brain activity in regions linked to social decision making, reducing altruistic behavior.