If drones are to take over any of the numerous tasks they are supposed to, they’re going to have to get a lot smarter — and learn to work together. In a demonstration of both of these things, Chinese researchers show off a swarm of drones collectively navigating…

A modern classic that's almost 30 years old, let's find out how it works!

x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser - copy/v86

Introduction The GitLab team handbook is the central repository for how we run the company. Printed, it consists of over 2,000 pages of text. As part of our value of being transparent the handbook is open to the world, and we welcome feedback. Please make…

In the latest Numberphile video , Marcus du Sautoy introduced me to the notion of n+7 writing/poetry. Take an existing text, and replace the nouns with words seven places advanced in the dictionary . I decided to apply this treatment to the most famous…

There’s a roundabout in Garthdee in Aberdeen that’s home to a colony of rabbits. It’s a very busy junction in a fairly industrial area with large shopping centres and building sup…

The Nim team is happy to announce version 1.6.6, our third patch release for Nim 1.6.

Here is a piece of advice I often give to people who are a few years into their career.

A whimsical challenge to see how far one can go in a Kaggle competition with limited time, limited resources and pretty much limited everything else.

The majority of server programs are Linux programs. They consist of a file system, some executable files, maybe some shared libraries, they probably
interface with system software like systemd or nsswitch.

The original book is far more grisly than the beloved Disney classic—and has an unsettling message about humanity.

Sending greetings to friends and family from places we visit has always been popular. Whether we text, call or just post something on social media, we love to let others know about where we travel and what we see there. Although we may associate tourism with…

Crossrail's tunnels under London are long, so long that when they were being planned, they were affected by something you might not expect -- the curvature of the earth.

Faster, easier and more secure sign-ins will be available to consumers across leading devices and platforms 

There is a lot of work going on right now on speeding up Python; Kevin
Modzelewski gave a presentation at
PyCon 2022 on some of that
work. Much of it has implications for Python programmers in terms of how
to best take advantage of these optimizations in…