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 :)
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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

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…

Sellers on Amazon.com are reaching out to unhappy buyers to revise or delete negative reviews, in exchange for refunds or gift cards—in violation of the terms they agree to on the retail platform.

Put This In Your Pipe | In a [previous post](/blog/2012/03/shelling-out-sucks/), I talked about why