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

Physicists in the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) have developed a new approach to control the outcome of chemical reactions. This is traditionally done using temperature and chemical catalysts, ...

For the past few months, we've been working hard to improve the Pull Request experience. One of the features we're most excited about: Pull Request File Tree. The new tree: Jump bet...

The next step could be a pig translation app for farmers.

Talk about zero to 60 in... never.

Working Draft of the RISC-V J Extension Specification - riscv/riscv-j-extension

Losses in manpower and firepower, bad logistics and new frontlines with too few soldiers: Analysts say the invasion is grinding to a stalemate

The Align-Define-Design-Refine process, known as ADDR, is a process framework that guides teams through a repeatable, scalable API design process.

I recently received a tantalizing email from a reader I’ve never met: Sam Henri-Gold.

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If true, this could have major implications for physics.