Thomas Claiburn's FYI: Today's computer chips are so advanced, they are more 'mercurial' than precise – and here's the proof discusses two ...

Born nearly two thousand years before Darwin and Freud, Epictetus seems to have anticipated a way out of their prisons.

Scientists warn of efforts to insert commercials into dreams

This specification defines a mechanism for expressing user decisions about personal data processing under the European Union’s data protection regulations, and similar regulations outside the EU. The mechanism functions through the exchange of HTTP headers…

A significantly faster alternative to the classic Unix cp(1) command, copying large files and directories in a fraction of the time. - Svetlitski/fcp

Eight Pacific countries created a revolutionary system that brings in $500m a year and prevents the overfishing that blights other regions

Michael Braude decries the popularity of web programming:

The reason most people want to program for the web is that they’re not smart enough to do anything else. They don’t understand compilers, concurrency, 3D or class inheritance. They haven’t got a clue…

Build your own old-fashioned typewriter in LEGO® style

Types of register explained, and which are available to pass arguments of different types. Call by value and call by reference distinguished.

A list of things that we can do when we need to scale a SQL database.

Amazon's hourly staffers quit so frequently that executives are worried the company will run out of hirable workers, The New York Times reported.

The company best known for its search engine is launching a new set of tools aimed at creating an “easy button” for protecting your data online.

In 1978 he was music’s next big thing. Then his album bombed, he began a long slide into obscurity, and a bizarre fraud sent him to prison. Will Dane Donohue finally get his encore?

It may not be too late to put the evil "Slaughterbots" genie back in the bottle, if the world acts now