This is the fifth and final part (I, II, III, IV) of our series asking the question ‘Who were the Romans?’ How did they understand themselves as a people and the idea of ‘Roman’ as an i…

Once upon a time, Groups was an app that accepted two "social logins": Google and Facebook. All was well. Apple, a company known for enclos...

Researchers from Israel have developed a neural network capable of generating ‘master' faces – facial images that are each capable of impersonating multiple IDs. The work suggests that it's possible to generate such ‘master keys' for more than 40% of the…

Nearly ten years ago I graduated with a degree in Mathematics & Computing, with a keen interest in pursuing a career involving maths and programming, but with little idea how. First and foremost I had decided to stay in Manchester after uni, rather than risk…

Submarine robot takes photos of vessel and cargo of amphorae dating back to second century BC

This release represents a huge improvement for elm-pages in terms of features, developer experience, and performance.

The Maersk Triple-E Class container ship is 1,300 feet long, carries over 18,000 containers across 11,000 miles between Europe and Asia, and… Its entire crew can fit inside a passenger van.

"Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book." - Joseph Brodsky

Posted by Kees Cook, Software Engineer, Google Open Source Security Team To borrow from an excellent analogy between the modern computer ec...

DataHen Till is a companion tool to your existing web scraper that instantly makes it scalable, maintainable, and more unblockable, with minimal code changes on your scraper. Integrates with any sc...

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This evening, Facebook suspended my Facebook account and the accounts of several people associated with Cybersecurity for Democracy, our team at NYU. This has the effect of cutting off our access to Facebook's Ad Library data, as well as Crowdtangle. 1/4

Some allegations potentially center around accessing Google user or employee data.

A lightweight (350MB) Lisp interpreter in Malbolge Unshackled, often dubbed the hardest turing complete programming language. - kspalaiologos/malbolge-lisp

By focusing on relationships between solutions to polynomial equations, rather than the exact solutions themselves, Évariste Galois changed the course of modern mathematics.

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Whether your game surfaces its numbers to the player or not, odds are it has underlying systems that rely on them, and you use functions to determine how those numbers affect each other. In other words, a mathematical function is usually at the core of the…

Facebook is researching ways to analyze encrypted data, such as WhatsApp messages, without actually decrypting the information, according to a new...

Today’s show: How to quit your job and work on open source full time. This story has it all -- balancing side projects and full-time employment, building up enough supports to leave your job, and explaining quitting to your family and friends.And also: what…