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Ukraine said Belarus could be planning to invade its territory on Friday and accused Russia of trying to drag its ally into the war by staging air attacks on Belarus from Ukrainian air space.

China's censors, who quietly determine what can be discussed on the country's buzzing social media platforms, are silencing views of citizens protesting against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

India cited a "technical malfunction" during routine maintenance, after Pakistan summoned India's envoy to protest.

Shopify’s Data team uses these foundational approaches to data warehousing and analysis empowering us to deliver the best results for our ecosystem.

This paper  from Sigmod 2021 presents FoundationDB, a transactional key-value store that supports multi-key strictly serializable transacti...

These posters were published in the Soviet anti-religious magazine, Bezbozhnik (“The Godless”) from 1922 to 1941.

From Mazes and Monsters to Dark Dungeons, D&D was a lot scarier in the 1980s.

Recently my PhD student gave a rehearsal of their 20 minute oral presentation. It was ok. Average. In other words, (seemingly) long, and boring. Like so many people’s technical talks. What ca…

This video describes a volumetric display I designed and built that uses a phased arrray of ultrasonic transducers to levitate a 1mm foam ball and move it at speeds greater than 1m/s. The POV effect makes it seem as if you're drawing in mid-air!

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Hello all, The HLSL compiler community is interested in contributing HLSL, DirectX and Vulkan graphics support to Clang and LLVM. Why do we want to do this? The existing HLSL compiler, the DirectX Shader Compiler (DXC), is a fork of LLVM/Clang 3.7 and…

As the west focuses on oligarchs, a far smaller group has its grip on true power in Moscow. Who are the siloviki — and what motivates them?

A deep dive into the UX of current single sign-on and an overview of possible solutions.

Incident Report: Spotify Outage on March 8, 2022 - Spotify Engineering