Scotch whisky maker Glenfiddich has announced that it will convert its delivery trucks to run on low-emission biogas made from waste products from its own whisky distilling process. The company said it has installed fuelling stations at its Dufftown distillery…

When tech companies take it upon themselves to arbitrate what is or isn't misinformation they think they're the patricians of internet discourse. The reality is they're the plumbing. Meanwhile, most of the mainstream media coverage around the pandemic can…

Recently while searching for a book on Bookshop.org, I was interrupted by a popup apparently generated by Microsoft Edge advising me of an alternative:

WebAssembly is a safe, portable, and low-level binary instruction format.

An antenna’s radiation can be turned off using a dielectric disc, creating a non-radiative “meta-atom”

A prototype AirPower mat has surfaced online, complete with photos and a video of it being used in action to charge a phone.

BioNTech aims to develop the first mRNA-based vaccine for Malaria prevention with the initiation of a clinical trial by end of 2022 BioNTech is evaluating sustainable mRNA vaccine production capacities in Africa; the Company’s efforts are supported by the…

The Kawa Scheme language

Your parents had to have let you stay up till midnight Friday/Saturday August 1, 1981 to have ever seen this. This probably all seems totally quaint and archaic now but this collectively blew us ALL away back in the day :)
EDIT: Had to remove about 3.5 mins…

Follows this logic for verifying a connection to Elasticsearch:
Before the first API request:

Make an API request to /, inspect the response:
If call to / fails with 401 or 403 pass the check and ...

The lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser. - Textualize/textual