The actor on disparate creations Mr Bean and Blackadder, cancel culture and his first starring TV role in decades

The Library of Congress is now home to a huge collection of nearly 100 pocket globes -- miniature globes that were fashionable art objects from the 17th to 19th centuries, during the age of exploration. The globes, perhaps three inches in diameter, were made…

For the past few years, every company I interact with doesn't get the same email address from me. I'm trying to be as plain as possible w...

An unprecedented trove of 8,000 bones presents archaeologists at a road dig with a prehistoric mystery

A shortage of chemical fertilizer, worsened by the war in Ukraine, has growers desperate. It just so happens that human urine has the very nutrients that crops need.

Transparent memory offloading (TMO) is Meta’s data center solution for offering more memory at a fraction of the cost and power of existing technologies In production since 2021, TMO saves 20 perce…

Apple's feedback system is fundamentally broken, and they don't seem to care.

A game of gravity.

The Microvium JavaScript engine for microcontrollers takes less than 16 kB of ROM and 64 bytes of RAM per VM while idle, making it possibly the smallest JavaScript engine to date with more language features than engines 4x its size

A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.

The official site of the Checkbox Olympics, home of all checkbox games.

IDEA is a series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions, created by Sándor P. Fekete and blinry.

Famously, engineers tend to make wrong assumptions about a lot of things: Names and time are two well-known examples. Maps are a rich source of edge cases. Especially when you start dealing with gl…