This is one of my favourite essays from my MA in Translation Theory and Practice. The MA certainly focuses more on the theory side of translation which is evident from this essay. The point of the essay was to compare

A documentary travelogue through aging virtual worlds.

Today, we are introducing a revised privacy policy to address the concerns raised with the previous privacy policy published earlier in July. The original policy, which was drafted in anticipation ...

Windows 11 contains some quite drastic and visual changes compared to the good-old Windows 10. After installing Windows 11 preview builds, which are

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) algorithms are increasingly developed in health care for diagnosis and treatment of a variety of medical conditions ([ 1 ][1]). However, despite the technical prowess of such systems, their adoption has…

The birds can bust open garbage lids—and the behavior is catching on fast, which could be a sign of social learning

Today I'd like to share some math connecting ideas from information theory, algebra, and topology. It's all in a new paper I've recently uploaded to the arXiv (https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09581), which describes a correspondence between Shannon entropy and…

“We're in a science fiction novel now that we are all co-writing together.”

Google now list several of the factors it used to rank a result in the about this result section.

iDOS 2, an app designed to allow users to play classic DOS games, will soon be pulled from the App Store, the app's creator said today. ...

TLDR: read the paper and view the gallery of pretty Perl programs. In this paper, we aim to answer a long-standing open problem in the programming languages community: is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?

GitHub’s supply chain security features are now available for Go modules, which will help the Go community discover, report & prevent vulnerabilities.

This site changes design and makes you feel weird each time you blink.

Computing devices are wonderful; they surely must be, since so many
of us have so many of them. The proliferation of computers leads directly
to a familiar problem, though: the files we want are always on the wrong
machine. One solution is synchronization…

Indicted Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith is back to jail after allegedly breaching bail conditions by checking his Coinbase balance.

I recently bought a house in Madison, Wisconsin, but before I did I went through a series of adventures in different parts of the state exploring the property market. I was initially interested in Wisconsin because I have extended family there and they encouraged…

A Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of time you linger over a piece of content. Every second you hesitate or rewatch, the app is tracking you. Photo illustration:…