Digital platforms play an ever-increasing role in structuring and influencing public debate. Civil society watchdogs, researchers and journalists need to be able to hold them to account. But Facebook is increasingly fighting those who try. It shut down New…

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Inspired by a salad spinner, Navjot Sawhney invented the hand-cranked washer four years ago.

Hundreds of spills off Gulf of Paria having ‘dire’ impact on local fishing in one of the most biodiverse areas of Trinidad and Tobago

“You can always take an existing article and rewrite it just enough to avoid copyright infringement."

Groups are urging a one-time tax on the $5.5 trillion in wealth billionaires gained during the pandemic to fund unemployment grants and vaccinate the world.

egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native - emilk/egui

VPNs promise privacy, but The Markup found their apps and websites full of trackers

Or subnoscript: Maybe distributed programming is no longer a programming problem? (For the obvious impaired: This is meant to be more thought provoking than an actual truth) Over the last decade we ha…

Enjoy a sneak peek from Androids: The team that built the Android operating system.

In a recent conversation, someone shared some code from a book about technical job interviews. They wanted to know if I agreed that the code was “Pythonic.”

I recently got stuck trying to figure out the right alt text for a particular image…

In early July, as Taliban insurgents were seizing territory from government forces across Afghanistan, fighters from the group walked into the offices of Azizi Bank in the southern city of Kandahar and ordered nine women working there to leave.

🔣 Compose Key for Windows. Contribute to samhocevar/wincompose development by creating an account on GitHub.

Also migrated Artyom's patched qemu github.com/artyom-tarasen… to Apple M1 (running on the guest aarch64 Linux + port forwarding) and now AIX 5.1 boots exactly in 90 seconds !

A new textbook on machine learning

The global land and ocean temperature departure from average for July 2021 was the warmest on record for the month of July.

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Although "adda" is a beloved pastime throughout Kolkata, the long, cerebral conversations that the city is famous for started to become an issue during Covid-19.