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 ...

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Software and hardware projects for fun from a guy who loves retro computing

The reason: unlivable wages for newcomer in-between animators

Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those…