PoW currencies ranked by energy efficiency

Do men and women have different brains? Previous neuroimage studies sought to answer this question based on morphological difference between specific brain r...

Almost a year ago I started using a delightful little iOS app called Receipt Box. It did exactly what I wanted: I could tap in an expense and a category, and the app added a geo location to the exp...

PSA: Starting in August this year, for newly published Android apps, Google will require that *they* sign apps, not you. This means that the Android security model is fundamentally broken, because the app is signed by the distributor and not by the developer.…

Caveat: Elasticsearch is a multi-purpose, distributed, battle-tested, schema-free, log and document storage engine. We’ll be replacing it with a single-purpose, relational schema, me-tested, and custom nginx access log storage engine. Knowing that, let’s…

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The rich world suffered relatively badly, but most of the dying has been elsewhere

Bette Nesmith Graham invented one of the most popular office supplies of the 20th century. Today, she’s largely been forgotten.

The question was directed at one of Apple's economist expert witnesses.

The Southern California city of Fullerton has agreed to pay $350,000 and take back its accusations of criminal computer hacking to settle a lawsuit against two local bloggers, a newspaper reported.…

Kaufmann's Posographe - an analog mechanical photographic exposure calculator

A unique feature of the SARS-CoV-2 genome controls protein synthesis and presents an Achilles heel of the virus.

Meet Jonna Mendez, the former CIA Chief of Disguise (a real job!). During her tenure, Mendez oversaw the equipment used by spies to conceal their i...

Making sense of authorization, policy and access management systems.

Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX...