At the company’s AR/VR-focused Connect event this morning, Mark Zuckerberg announced that despite a name change, Facebook Meta’s mission will remain the same and that its existing brands wouldn’t be changing. “To reflect who we are and what we hope to build…

A little over fifteen years ago, Adam Bosworth – then with Google, and formerly of BEA and Microsoft – noticed something interesting. For all that they represented the state of the art, the leading database vendors of the time – all of which were relational…

So, with the upcoming delivery of new #M1Pro and #M1Max hardware to customers next week, I thought I’d spend a couple of days talking about how @affinitybyserif Photo uses GPUs, how our benchmark works and what we should reasonably expect from this new hardware…

We’re thrilled to announce a new open-source package for the Swift on Server ecosystem, Swift Distributed Actors, a complete server-oriented cluster library for the upcoming distributed actor language feature!

“Gifted” dogs often make the gesture before correctly identifying a toy

Using 3D printed plastic and recycled materials like foam core, Micromek is building drones to reduce the cost of medical supply transport.

10 Reasons Truck Drivers Walk Out the Door! There are many reasons that professional truck drivers leave their truck driving jobs. In this video, we give you the top 10 reasons truckers leave their jobs, to get another truck driving job or leave the industry…

How Tim Ferriss’s 2007 manifesto anticipated our current moment of professional upheaval.

Environmental lawyer Steven Donziger surrendered himself to authorities on Wednesday, following a lengthy legal battle with oil major Chevron.

1952 Miller-Urey experiment showed organic molecules forming from inorganic precursors.

Those who speak Toki Pona say linguistic simplicity can enable a more profound form of communication.

It's took a long time—4 months of fermentation, in fact—but I made my own garum (or more accurately, liquamen), under the supervision of the world's leading archaeological authority on the subject. (Looking at you, Sally!) Here's how I did it... (thread)

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OpenBSD remains a crucial yet largely unacknowledged player in the open-source field.

Appeal hearing concludes as defense dismantles U.S. arguments On the second day of Julian Assange’s extradition appeal hearing, the defense laid out its arguments to uphold the District Judge’s ruling […]

This is the first part of a blog about putting a wifi router into a phone charger. Join us on Discord here. Check out the Github.

Despite stagnant open-world tropes, Far Cry continues to improve its accessibility options

Oculus is removing the Facebook account requirement for Quest devices a year after its announcement.