The CEO is the first woman to receive IEEE's highest semiconductor award

Large-scale solar hydrogen production through water splitting using a powder photocatalyst is considered one of the most promising methods of producing sustainable fuels in the future. In 2018, this research ...

This is what "democratization" looks like

toybox. Contribute to landley/toybox development by creating an account on GitHub.

Lazy programmers often prefer to substitute computing effort for programming effort.

[Hacker News discussion, Twitter thread]

Every year or two I remember what’s probably the most scarily/stunningly impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen. Every time, I think I must be mistaken, then I read the thing, and I just shake my head in disbelief. It’s been twenty years. Let me tell you…

Communications in distributed teams: a write-up of my talk from FrOSCon 2020, Cloud Edition.

The last time I wrote about the timezone database on this blog, the database was under threat from a lawsuit. Fortunately that lawsuit w...

The most advanced solution in groupware, communication and collaboration: grommunio offers an open source platform for everyone!

The problem — lack of private incentives to repurpose off-patent drugs

Creator economy is a buzzy, often catchall term used to describe independent contractors. But in reality, most of the innovation has revolved around passion-project content (Substack for writing, Teachable for courses, etc.) and niche side projects. To date…

The main options are espeak, Gnuspeech, spd-say, MBROLA, PicoTTS and the festvox project which festival and flite are part of. While I found espeak to be the simplest system to use, festival produced the best results when used with the right voices. This…

As Europe prepares to ban combustion engines, Italy, home of high-powered, high-testosterone sports cars made by Ferrari and Lamborghini, is already looking for ways around the proposed restrictions.

— By Shrey Mehta, Kaushik Barodiya