Between early wired networks and today’s fiber optics sat a system of microwave relay towers transmitting information from coast to coast across the United States. Built in the early 1950s, this line-of-sight network spanned the continent using zig-zag patterns…

California Governor Gavin Newsom frequently touts that his state is the leader in cutting-edge manufacturing and green technology. Now one of the most recognizable companies in those fields is taking its headquarters elsewhere.

The judgment utilizes a rarely invoked law intended to stop repeat offenders from running amok and accumulating criminal cases before the system has a chance to catch up.

Reddit uses “reddit.com” itself as the endpoint for logging usage data GET for serving the webpage, POST for logging so that if you just block “reddit.com” naively (to prevent logging) it also blocks the page from loading

Michael Seibel is CEO of Y Combinator Core. He sold Twitch, the startup he co-founded, to Amazon for $1 Billion in 2014. He was also a founder of  SocialCam, acquired for $60 million. In a recent blog post he shared his story of being kicked out of Yale for…

Training the car to do self-parking using a genetic algorithm

Nature - An inexpensive type of portable filter efficiently screened SARS-CoV-2 and other disease-causing organisms from hospital air.

🧵30dys ago I was an #Apple employee. I was sitting at home, suspended, because I had raised concerns abt my office being on a triple Superfund toxic waste dump w/out safety testing for over 6yrs, then raised concerns abt Apple retaliating, intimidating, &…

Few users will eventually decide to leave your product. Offboarding is just as critical as onboarding and should be given equal attention.

Q&A for people looking to bypass life's everyday problems with simple tricks

ScummVM is a collection of game engines for playing classic graphical RPGs and point-and-click adventure games on modern hardware.

In two decades, the insect's population has declined by nearly 90 percent due to a combination of threats, including habitat loss, pesticides and diseases

Facebook's internal research suggesting that social media is harming teenage girls will not surprise anyone who is or has been a teenage girl.

Supply chains are TV for matter

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WSL is finally easy to install—and offers automatic sound/graphics support.

Secp256k1 and secp256r1 are two commonly used curves. Hyperledger / Fabric developed by IBM is using secp256r1 while Bitcoin is using secp256k1. What is the difference between these two and why did Satoshi decide to use secp256k1 which is considered as a…