The Suez Canal Authority said this week it plans on widening and deepening parts of the waterway to improve the movement of ships in the area.

When your commonplace book is a public database

PEP 654 was authored by Irit Katriel, Yury Selivanov, and Guido van Rossum. This PEP is currently at the draft stage. At the 2021 Python La...

Research is characterized by allowing yourself to make mistakes: performing experiments; drawing conclusions; later, realizing that your experiment was not sufficient and you got it wrong; and trying again. Back in March, we thought that we knew how to deal…

SeaGlass is a system designed by security researchers at the University of Washington to measure IMSI-catcher use across a city.     Cellular sensors are built from off-the-shelf parts and installed into volunteers’ vehicles Sensor data is continuously uploaded…

prototype nine-wing flying boat airliner

This post sparked quite a discussion on hackernews. You can read all the interesting comments in this thread. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Ancient technology inspires a future Venus rover that can operate for years at 500 °C

They slice up the messy reality of life differently from your own

In the mid-1980s, the RAM industry and the oil industry had a lot in common: The price fluctuations could get severe. Things got really bad in 1988.

a SmartThings companion app. View and control your devices on your own house's floor plan UI. Quick overview status. Family friendly UI.

Container Queries are one of the most anticipated new features in CSS. I recently got a chance to play with them a bit and came up with this demo.

Short introduction to multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar antenna arrays

For the last decade, Richard Montañez has been telling the story of how he invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. The world has been eating it up.

By Kevin Dangoor Back in December 2019, I first wrote about Goliath, Khan Academy’s project to migrate our backend from a Python 2 monolith ... Read more

Yesterday, following weeks of anticipation, State Gov. Jay Islee signed the Public Broadband Act (H.B. 1336), removing all restrictions on public broadband in the state of Washington, according to the

Chrono Trigger, Mega Man, Metal Gear Solid, Spelunky, Baldur's Gate, Warcraft, SotC, EarthBound, NBA Jam, Katamari, Star Wars KotOR, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Shovel Knight, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Red Dead Redemption, Retrogaming, GoldenEye, TLoZ…