The life and death of the Prevue channel, which showed you what to watch.

The oil giant’s unexpected boardroom defeat by an activist investor hinged on a few key moments.

A brief but surprisingly exciting 1984 video showing the preparation and live, real-time cutover from Step By Step switching system (SXS) to a new electronic switching system (ESS) in Glendale, California.

Western Electric offered the Speedy Cutover Service…

Burn it all down...for GDP growth!

Air France (AIRF.PA) cancelled two more flights to Moscow on Monday after Russian authorities failed to approve flight plans that avoid Belarus airspace.

A Notion API SDK, written in Golang. Contribute to jomei/notionapi development by creating an account on GitHub.

Native to China’s Yangtze River, these fish grew 23 feet in length, but haven’t been spotted since 2003.

In tribal communities across Namibia, older, eccentric people are often accused of witchcraft and violently attacked. One man realized it was something else entirely.

Twenty years ago today, the first email on the postgis users mailing list (at that time hosted on yahoogroups.com) was sent, announcing the first numbered release of PostGIS.



The early history of PostGIS was tightly bound to a consulting company I had…

A new report says that Apple's iOS 14.5 App Tracking Transparency measures have seen ad spending fall by 10% as users choose not to be tracked.

Android 12’s privacy-focused permission deepens the woes of Facebook by vowing to end invasive location-targeted marketing

🖥️ A small, customizable and extensible MCU-class 32-bit RISC-V soft-core CPU and microcontroller-like SoC written in platform-independent VHDL. - stnolting/neorv32

A woman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, watched State Police place a tracking device on her vehicle last weekend and contacted her local NAACP president, who was frankly unimpressed by the agency’s spycraft.

In Japan, local authorities are giving away renovation subsidies to incentivize people to move into the country's rural areas.

How to put a price on the limits of knowledge

It was a winter Sunday morning and the island of Oahu was asleep — its military at Pearl Harbor less alert than they might have been any other day of the week. The winter trade winds blow steadily from the northeast against the Hawaiian island, rushing…

You can mount code from your development machine into a container and save yourself tedious waiting times during development.