Brothers Ryan and Rory Van Tuinen are closer today than they've ever been before. Seeing one's sibling almost die repeatedly forges a powerful fraternal bond....

When you’re accessing services over the WEB – let’s pick GMail as an example – couple of things have to happen upfront:
The server you’re connecting to (GMail in our …

Databases will win based on superior developer experience not what is under the hood.

Killing portions of a product is a challenging aspects of leadership. This article offers expert perspective on why teams choose to unship, the problems that come from delaying the decision, and how to pull off a successful sunset.

In his long war against America, Osama bin Laden has won a sweeping if posthumous victory. The U.S. reaction to the 9/11 attack he masterminded is like the cytokine storm that can occur when COVID-…

Its legacy lives on today in the struggles faced by modern miners seeking workers' rights

The pitchforks are coming

App makers can email you about outside payment options

City aims to reopen parts of river but centuries-held view of it as toxic sewer remains surprisingly strong

Covid-19 has exposed many of the city’s old problems—and some new ones, too

For Zapotec artist and weaver Porfirio Gutiérrez, colour is a way to connect with his ancestors' way of life, which has sustained civilisations by living in symbiosis with nature.

See how we go from raw satellite imagery, clouds and all, to beautiful wall art.

Arm China has gone completely rogue, operating as an independent company with their own IP and R&D. This is the semiconductor heist of the century. There are many questions swirling about what…

In this story I elaborate on some key origins of the notions of interaction [design] from the art and computer science perspective

Inside the race to recover a priceless royal treasure and finally catch an audacious band of thieves.

In 2012, Michael Lewis gave a commencement speech at Princeton University, his alma mater. In the speech, Lewis, the author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, and The Big Short, talks about the role of luck in rationalizing success. He tells the graduates,

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One of the fun things about working with big data is that you can often hit weird limits with a system.
I was personally trying to load every "common" single nucleotide polymorphism for the human...