From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

The MARSIS instrument on ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, famous for its role in the discovery of signs of liquid water on the Red Planet, is receiving a major software upgrade that will allow it to see beneath the surfaces of Mars and its moon Phobos in more…

Battersea Power Station has revealed the fully restored Control Room A, the first of the Grade II* listed building’s two original Control Rooms which managed the distribution of electricity across London from the early 1930s

Arm introduces next-generation big core: Cortex-A715.

The earth doesn't give up its secrets easily—not even in the "Cradle of Humankind" in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found.

The newsletter start-up discussed raising funding last year but abandoned the plan after the market for venture investments cooled.

Matthew Geouge raked in $10 million for selling the devices which made trucks produce hundreds of times more pollution, prosecutors said.

What can Reddit comment data tell us about the rules governing the formation of insulting compound words like 'fartface', 'scumwad', or 'assgoblin'?

Monorepo performance can suffer due to the sheer number of files in your working directory. Git’s new builtin file system monitor makes it easy to speed up monorepo performance.

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While Orca has 8 collector containers each about the size and shape of a standard shipping container, Mammoth will have 80.

My book 'Mastering Nim - A complete guide to the programming language' is now available on Amazon

Archaeological analysis suggests an arms race in ironworking and cavalry spurred bureaucracy and bigger populations

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New research suggests that the sun’s spectacular magnetic arches seen in countless snapshots could be an optical illusion.

Mycroft’s newer, better, privacy-focused neural text-to-speech (TTS) engine. In human terms, that means it can run completely offline and sounds great.

The fxt library of algorithms and the fxtbook