They've been discovered at Roman-era sites, but no one knows what they're for.

Insurers need experts to calculate risk. Among those number-crunchers’ riskiest endeavors are the tortuous exams for credentials; ‘Calculate the number of blue balls in the second urn.’

This is not a “fuck SF” post. This is a lament of what has been lost, and a wistfulness for what could have been.

GitHub is where widevinedump builds software.

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On a barren lava plateau in Iceland, a new facility is sucking in air and stashing the carbon dioxide in rock. The next step: Build 10,000 more.

John Madden, a legendary figure known to one generation as a Hall of Fame coach, another generation as the sport’s greatest announcer, and yet another generation for the video game that bears his name, has died at the age of 85.The NFL announced Madden’s…

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Amedia, the largest local news publisher in Norway, announced on Tuesday that several of its central computer systems were shut down in what it is calling an apparent “serious” cyberattack.

To make more successful technical calls & advance careers, engineers actually need to develop better strategic decision making skills.

Beyond the ‘blah blah blah’ of climate summits lies the real solution our leaders refuse to acknowledge. First of two parts.

The newspaper Izvestiya dismissed the film of Dr No as ‘rubbish’; but Novy Mir had a shrewder, more prescient take on the Bond ‘brand’, James Fleming discovers

In a containerized world, is there a material difference between communicating over local network TCP vs local Unix domain sockets?

Oven stoves are greener, more efficient, healthier, safer and cosier than all modern heating systems. Why are they gone and how do we get them back?

Mathematicians and computer scientists answered major questions in topology, set theory and even physics, even as computers continued to grow more capable.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) makes it clear that apps and services must delete their customers’ data when it’s no longer useful.