David explains how philosophers think and how you can use their techniques to improve your own thinking. Read here.

Details on California SB 519 (California 2021-2022 Regular Session) - Controlled substances: study of decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances.

The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before he was born, everyone knew that COM was already so deeply obsolete tha…

JavaScript in the browser runs many times faster than it did two decades ago. And that happened because the browser vendors spent that time working on intensive performance optimizations.

Larry Brandt, a long-time supporter of internet freedom, used his nearly 20-year-old PayPal account to put his money where his mouth is. His primary use of the payment system was to fund servers to

Posted by Thao Nguyen, AI Resident, Google Research A common practice to improve a neural network’s performance and tailor it to availabl...

In the late 1990s, the Windows Shell and Internet Explorer teams introduced a bunch of brilliant and intricate designs that allowed extension of the shell and the browser to handle scenarios beyond…

Flights between Germany and Russia are back on after a brief suspension earlier on Wednesday in an an apparent tit-for-tat move.

@Zerodium This really shows the sad state of funding in open source software.. I managed to find 25k USD last year to work on @impidgin full time, but if you can find a security exploit in my and other's non paid work you can make 4 times as much as I did...…

A ransomware attack on the Steamship Authority of Massachusetts hampered operations Wednesday morning. The largest ferry service to the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, the Steamship Authority issued a statement warning that traveling customers…

Venus’s heavy atmosphere tugs the planet’s surface enough to change the length of its day by up to 21 minutes.

How the wrong settings on a photocopier has let us have a glimpse at a forbidden image of a modern thermonuclear warhead.

After imagining the perfect drum machine, LA Priest spent years scheming, tweaking, and building his own.

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Blender 2.93 LTS marks the end of a series 20+ years in the making.

King County became the first county in the country to ban government use of facial recognition software. Supporters applaud the newly approved ban on facial recognition software. They said this is a big win for civil rights and privacy. Those worried about…