Amid a national housing crisis, giant private equity firms have been buying up apartment buildings en masse to squeeze them for profit, with the help of government-backed Freddie Mac. Meanwhile, tenants say they’re the ones paying the price.

Hungarian scientists claim that samples of Antarctic soil sent to a Shanghai firm in 2019 became contaminated with an unknown variant

Starting March 10, you'll need a Microsoft account to play Java

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TL;DR: OpenSCAD users: download a nightly build & enable fast-csg in settings for 10x faster render (YMMV). Make your models more ambitious and report is...

Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.

Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator.

A log-structured merge-tree (LSM tree) is a data structure typically used when dealing with write-heavy workloads. The write path is optimized by only performing sequential writes. LSM trees are the core data structure behind many databases, including BigTable…

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That "rapper" accused of billions in crypto fraud was also a Forbes contributor. Is it finally time to move past the contributor network?

_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.4 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. Command-line Racket provides a new expression editor by default for its read-eval-print loop (REPL). The new REPL is based on the Chez Scheme expr...

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Hulu has ordered 20 new episodes of the beloved animated series from the creator of The Simpsons.

The HAL 9000 computer and the ethics of murder by and of machines.

Developers have opinions on what a good API1 is, but rarely have a shared vocabulary to describe what makes them good. This essay puts forward one set of considerations (out of many) that we started using at Stripe in 2019 to discuss API design2. You can…

Technology is complicated. These days building even the simplest website requires knowing at least half a dozen separate technologies, almost double if you want your site to be scalable and modular. Learning to program has always been challenging for beginners…

Now we can show you what they censors didn't want you to see: the black hole photographs.

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