The Pacific nation's audacious bid to become the world's first dark sky nation might provide a blueprint for the rest of the world.

The Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer (1983) was the classic synthesizer in 1980s pop music. It uses a technique called FM synthesis to produ...

After years of rumours and reports, Rockstar has confirmed it's working on a new Grand Theft Auto game, and said that it's "well underway".

Nature - US kitchen appliances that burn natural gas emit much more methane than previously realized.

The tiny aircraft was engineered by a team of students at the University of Maryland.

Five proposed rules to make sure you’re using analogies for good

In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2009, Cliff Click discusses the Von Neumann architecture, CISC vs RISC, the rise of multicore, Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP), pipelining, out-of-order dispatch, static vs dynamic ILP, performance impact…

Scientist blows whistle on prominent co-author: “I don’t want to deal with this alone anymore”

More Twitter users will be able to downvote content soon

I knew I'd be making this post one day, and I figured it would make me sad, I was wrong about the latter. The last 24 hours have been some of the most horrible

For some searches literally *the whole screen!!* on google is now ads.

The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles.

This is a labor of love where I just wanted the Nerves project to have a nice promo video. Frank and crew put a lot of work into making Nerves approachable while all their day-to-day use and needs is in the nitty-gritty industry side of it. So what does all…

How would you build an operating system? My answer is I wouldn't. First off, I don't know how. And the second thing is it seems like to large of a task. It took thousands of developers to build Windows XP.But actually, it is possible to build an operating…

The answer is in its business model and algorithm.