Radioactive waste generated from treating highly contaminated water used to cool crippled reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has thrown up yet new nightmarish challenges in decommissioning the facility, a project that is supposed to be completed…

Today, December 31, 2021, marks the official dissolution of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org).   Founded in 2011 with support from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Nutrition…

Some reasons why you might not want to remove data from the database between automated tests: speed, correctness, data growth issues and parallelism advantages

In this post we’re going to look at how Flare deserializes JSON documents stored on disk using a very fast bespoke, sparse, vectorized deserializer called squirrel-json.

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The need for signed integer arithmetic is often misplaced as most integers never represent negative values within a program. The indexing of arrays…

An intuitive explanation of how audio fingerprinting works helping users in identifying music from short snippets

Several new cases in New Brunswick involve caretakers of those afflicted, suggesting a possible environmental trigger

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can

An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python - seemoo-lab/opendrop

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