It seems that the problem of calculating the absolute value of a number is completely trivial. If the number is negative, change the sign. Otherwise, just leave it as it is. In Java, it may look...

An academic has been sacked over tweets calling me a ‘house negro’. This is nothing to celebrate.

Electrifying a bike can be electrifyingly easy

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Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of people walking and federal regulators seem to be asleep at the switch.

Energy consumption for heating and cooling is expected to triple in the next thirty years, as populations grow, and more people move into cities. A lot of that energy demand is used in compressing and pumping fluids. Now a market disrupting technology has…

LLVMPipe, my shoddy display controller, and hours of @svenpeter42's patience presents.... GNOME Shell on the Apple M1, bare metal. No, it's not GPU accelerated. Yes, I'm sending this tweet from it.

To mitigate heat waves and climate change, cities can use cool paving materials that reflect more light and emit less heat. Research from the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub finds that cool pavements would reduce Phoenix’s emissions by up to 6%.

The former Amazon worker claimed in a lawsuit that she had a bowel condition and was fired before she could get a doctor's note.

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The numbers were clearly faked. No one will admit to faking them

Cameron Kerry discusses the pressing need for privacy legislation in the U.S., and outlines seven broad principles that should guide any efforts to protect consumer privacy.

Towards infinite possibilies in visualizing and acting on data

Concerned that they could be targeted by Taliban online surveillance operations, U.S. Afghan allies are reportedly scrambling in ...

Smart speaker maker Sonos just won its first victory in a year-long patent lawsuit against Google.

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One night, a young man who we’ll call Student went to sleep and fell into a strange dream.  Student: Huh, where am I? I don’t recognize this place.  In front of him was a large black box,…