In a room full of non-native speakers, ‘there isn’t any chance of understanding’. It might be their language, but the message is often lost

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Supermassive black holes emit jets of white-hot plasma that stretch thousands of light-years across the cosmos. For the first time, researchers have identified what’s creating these jets.

There may be realistic ways to create cosmic bridges predicted by general relativity

May 19 (UPI) -- On Tuesday, voters in five counties in eastern Oregon urged county officials to begin to promote border relocation and joining Idaho.

Chia is a few months old, and we are already witnessing the impact of Chia on all our products. Speculative farmers are forcing their way in to make as much money as possible, as quickly as possible.

A fungus called Massospora produces an amphetamine in some cicadas and makes them lose control. Cicadas that are infected lose their genitals — and they don't even notice.

A language and runtime for distributed, incremental data processing in the cloud - grailbio/reflow

This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON 'API' requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance.

Shortly after I picked up ‘Dead Souls,’ my mother died a gruesome, absurd death, and I quickly found that Gogol’s surrealism was not so surreal after all.

A parasite gives its hosts the appearance of youth, and an unmatched social power in the colony.

(RTTNews) - Marriott International, Inc. (MAR) announced Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Virginia against the unknown perpetrators (John Does) responsible for illegal and fraudulent "robocalls" misusing Marriott's name.The suit claims…

Face masks are highly effective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission because, in most environments, airborne virus abundance is limited.

The RISC-V CPU architecture has been
gaining prominence for some years; its relatively open nature makes it an
attractive platform on which a number of companies have built products.
Linux supports
RISC-V well, but there is one gaping hole: there is no support…

This is the companion reference for A Brief Introduction to Esoteric Languages, my lecture for a friend’s college class. The video should be legible to other viewers, and the material here should be (mostly) understandable without watching the video.
The…

Ida Nelson says lighting up the runway is just another example of the community coming together. "It’s something that we in Igiugig do constantly, like almost every day.”

And yet we have very little idea where anuses come from.

Simplevisor : SimpleVisor is a simple, portable, Intel VT-x hypervisor with two specific goals: using the least amount of assembly code (10 lines), and having the smallest amount of VMX-related code to support dynamic hyperjacking and unhyperjacking (that…