The test allows customers to cash business or payroll checks at the post office and place them onto a gift card.

The mayor unveiled a plan to replace the highly selective program, which has become a glaring symbol of segregation in New York City public schools, for incoming students. It will be up to his successor to implement it.

The suspected Russian hackers who used SolarWinds and Microsoft software to burrow into U.S. federal agencies emerged with information about counter-intelligence investigations, policy on sanctioning Russian individuals and the country’s response to COVID…

Terminal front-end component written in JavaScript that works in the browser.

As much as I can recommend vim since I made the switch many years ago, there’s a bunch of anti-patterns I’ve commited myself (and later saw others repeat them), which often resulted in frustration and writing off the idea, perhaps prematurely. It’s a shame…

Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...

The valuation of Elon Musk's SpaceX crossed $100 billion following the company's latest financing round, CNBC has learned, which was announced this week.

When we think we’re multitasking, most often we aren’t really doing two things at once, but instead, individual actions in rapid succession.

Memory of a traumatic event becomes consolidated within hours. Intrusive memories can then flash back repeatedly into the mind’s eye and cause distress. We investigated whether reconsolidation—the process during which memories become malleable ...

In celebration of Steve Job’s life and his inspiration to many, I wanted to show a passion project I’ve been working on that I think Steve would be proud of. Something that wasn’t possible 20 years ago but is now. Hello, iMac G4 with an M1 chip.

Pipelines with Airflow ETL: Unveiling the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly sides of the process.

Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses - jaakkopasanen/AutoEq

Today, we're going to show you how the Facebook and affiliate sites downtime affected us, and what we can see in our data.

This is a follow-up to Error handling in Rust from a couple of days ago. The moment we want to use error propagation for different error types, we have to rely on trait objects with Box<dyn Error>, which means we defer a lot of information from compile-time…

Louis Barclay, creator of the Unfollow Everything browser extension that lets users unfollow---not unfriend---all their friends, groups, and pages simultaneously (rather than individually), writes that his program...

Failing companies ditch vessels too expensive to repair or too difficult to sell, leaving behind cargo-ship castaways trapped in ports or offshore.