Novel material mimics enamel’s complex structure with stronger components

In April 2021, Russia's financial intelligence unit met in Moscow with the regional head of Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange. The Russians wanted Binance to agree to hand over client data, including names and addresses, to help them fight crime…

This entrepreneur plans to revive the famous urban ecosystem with a billion oysters.

Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.

A revolutionary cryogenic tank design promises to radically boost the range of hydrogen-powered aircraft – to the point where clean, fuel-cell airliners could fly up to four times farther than comparable planes running on today's dirty jet fuel.

Hotel guests leave behind millions of half-used bars of soap every day. A nonprofit is on a mission to repurpose them.

For reasons I won’t get into, I’ve been working on a tricky reverse engineering puzzle recently: how to patch the operating system of a 26-year-old synthesizer. To be specific, the Kurzweil K2500, a sample-based synthesizer released in 1996. As...

Europe gets the option to "reject all" of Google’s cookies

How a Swedish skier was basically frozen—but lived.

In the discussion on my minimal chords post, someone commented: I have no idea what any of this means (what is a chord? what is a major chord? what is a note? what is a first/fourth/fifth note? is there a 65th note? what is a scale? what is a major scale?…

The upcoming Fedora release includes a change proposed by Peter Robinson and yours truly, that disables all the Frame Buffer Device (fbdev) drivers in the Linux kernel package. This means that star…

High-End-Netzkabel für extrem audiophile Anlagen und kompromisslose Spannungsfilter. 72V DBS-System und Leiter aus massivem PSC+-Kupfer und PSS-Silber.

We've been waiting since April 24, 2012 for a Google Drive Linux client.

On TikTok and online, the youngest workers are rejecting work as we know it. How will that play out IRL?

Twitter went mad last week because somebody had transferred almost $150m in a single Bitcoin transaction. This tweet was typical: There was much comment about how expensive or difficult this would …

A French defense contractor riding in a Dassault fighter learned the hard way that the grab bar next to his seat was actually the ejection handle.

I was just alerted to this story by one of the followers of this blog…  Last month Voyager 2 began returning some unusual signals.  This story is being reported by alternate news outlets as s…