The world is hungry for semiconductors, and not all of them need to be made with cutting-edge technology. The race is on to find older machines that can still crank out chips.

How the fruit got a bad rap from the beginning

The newest iPhone disables Face ID after a screen swap, unless you take it to Apple—or learn to microsolder. It’s a turning point for fixers everywhere.

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Article describing why applications based on DirectX 12 no longer work on 4th generation Intel graphics (codename Haswell)

The 1st part in a 4 part series on how to approach every programming interview, regardless of the topic.

Tobacco was the most profitable industry for U.S. stockholders over a 115-year span. But tobacco was also profitable for everyone - from raw material to retail. FARMERS Each fall, farmers supplied the leaf tobacco. How did they fare economically? Tobacco…

I had thought that SABRE, a joint development of IBM and American Airlines, was the first computerized airline reservation system, going live in 1960. However, “The Univac Air Lines Reservati…

“The brain is a funny thing,” guitarist Pat Martino told Nautilus in 2015. “It’s part of the vehicle, but it’s not part…

Two alumni explain why they are withdrawing their financial support.

Understanding what makes Tokyo so special is noticing the aspects of Tokyo’s urban design that make the city so easy to be in.

_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.3 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. Racket removes syntax arming and disarming in favor of a simpler system of protected syntax operations, along with other updates to the syntax sys...

Rule 90 Simple rules can generate complex behaviour. I’m reading A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram. A key idea of the book is that a simple rule, applied iteratively, can generate complex behaviour. The difference between Rules 222, 90, and 30 are…

When large crowds assemble, is there a way to keep them safe?