The Intel 8086 microprocessor was introduced 42 years ago this month, 1 so I made some high-res die photos of the chip to celebrate. The ...

We were priviliged and excited to have the opportunity for a behind-the-scenes tour of wild bee colonies at Blenheim Palace led by Filipe Salbany, an internationally experienced bee expert who emit…

Haiying Tang takes you on a tour of LZ$ TOAST, the new column opton compression in PostgreSQL 14, and shows the speed and compression ratio gains.

On 19 October 2021, Israeli Minister of Defense, Benny Gantz, announced the designation of six leading Palestinian civil society organizations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as “terrorist organizations” under Israel’s Anti-Terrorism Law 2016. The groups…

There’s a new plan to find extraterrestrial civilisations by the way they live. But if we can see them, can they see us?

Nearly every modern smartphone is equipped with an accelerometer, which, as the name implies, is a sensor that measures acceleration. It's most commonly used for detecting the device's orientation. It also has many other uses, whether as a game controller…

When someone passed me hundreds of thousands of records on kids taken from CloudPets a few years ago, I had a nightmare of a time getting in touch with the company. They'd left a MongoDB instance exposed to the public without a password and someone had snagged…

I'm currently unemployed. A recruiter lined me up an interview. ...With the employer that just fired me. I wish I was making that up

The constant discomfort of a genital injury creates a covenant of pain. It is impossible to think about anything else.

Teardown and analysis of electronics. Integrated circuit design analysis.

CEO Anne Wojcicki wants to make drugs using insights from millions of customer DNA samples, and doesn’t think that should bother anyone.

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So I couldn't sleep the other night, and my brain wanted to think about odd problems…
Ever had a noscript that's compatible with both, Python 2 and 3, but you didn't want to bother the user to know whic

@PlanetZooGame @shadowofwargame your DRM provider has let their domain name lapse, and it's killed your game startup... along with multiple other games I imagine.

There’s no way to confirm that a crop was grown organically. Randy Constant exploited our trust in the labels—and made a fortune.

No phone calls after hours, help with internet bills and remote working rights for parents are just some of the changes in a new law approved by Portuguese lawmakers.