The underrepresentation of women in academic science is typically attributed, both in scientific literature and in the media, to sexist hiring. Here we report five hiring experiments in which faculty evaluated hypothetical female and male applicants, using…

Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines, culminating in a 2m37s build on a 160-core ARM machine.
I don’t have a giant ARM behemoth, but I have been working on a tool I call Llama, which lets you offload computational…

Any cicada that tries to break the pattern is simply taking her offspring’s life into her own hands…

TLDR: My Macbook Pro 16" is hot and noisy when connected to a 2560x1440p60 monitor, even when idle and the lid is closed. This article…

Get any text on your screen into your clipboard. Contribute to schappim/macOCR development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Jim Waldo assesses how the internet fared during the pandemic and how well it stood up to huge shifts of work, education, and commerce online.

One of the oldest scams around -- the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data -- is on the rise, the FBI warns. Here's the story of a recent LinkedIn impersonation scam that led…

Learn how we build Outer Wonders for Linux using our custom game engine.

Ancient latrine sediments, which contain the concentrated collective biological waste of past whole human communities, have the potential to be excellent proxies for human gastrointestinal health o...

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For many people who’ve had COVID-19, the infections were thankfully mild and relatively brief. But these individuals’ immune systems still hold onto enduring clues about how best to neu…

The US imposes an almost total economic embargo on Iran, including a ban on all Iranian imports and sanctions on Iranian financial institutions.

The <1 kb state machine hook for React. Contribute to cassiozen/useStateMachine development by creating an account on GitHub.

In this article, we cover metaprogramming and macros in Elixir. Discover how you can use Elixir to write code that writes code.

A recent study shows that people with power embrace a "choice mindset" — and apply it to those with fewer resources