As I noted in Part I, the general idea of using heat and steam for mechanical work had a long and continuous history back to ancient times. But when we talk of the breakthrough “steam engine” in the eighteenth-century sense, we don’t mean a machine that exploits…

Before fame, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a master's thesis on the shapes of stories for the anthropology department at the University of Chicago.

A federal jury convicted former CIA programmer Joshua Schulte of violating the Espionage Act when he leaked CIA hacking materials to WikiLeaks

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If you're like me, you have mild OCD and like to keep things clean and organized. I've been wanting to shadow foam my tool box for quite a...

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This post describes the implementation and use of pledge() and unveil() in SerenityOS.

"Weird" access needs like mine show that true accessibility isn’t a checklist.

A thorn in NASA's side is gone. Will the next guy be any better?

To date most research on obesity has focused on studying those with a high body mass index (BMI), but a research group is now taking a different approach. The scientists looked at individuals with a very low BMI. Their findings reveal that these individuals…

Parallax scrolling – creating an illusion of depth in a 2D scene by having the background and foreground move at different speeds – is pretty much a staple of platformers and other 2D g…

If all your tools are stuffed in plastic buckets or jumbled together in a drawer, check out these simple yet clever tool storage tips. They'll help you orga

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In order to better understand how people will interact with mobile robots in the wild, we need to take them out of the lab and deploy them in the real world. But this isn’t easy to do.

Read the discussion on Hacker News Most of our tasks work like a wave. We need to do them at a certain interval. I need to pee and pay taxes every sometime. To-do waves have different lengths. There are small waves like I need to pee, eat, and drink. There…

My significant other works for Electronic Arts, and I'm what you might call a disgruntled spouse. EA's bright and shiny new corporate trademark is "Challenge Everything." Where this applies is not exactly clear. Churning out one licensed football game after…

With the threat of recession and further inflation, Vladimir Putin could deal a devastating blow to the European Union if he cuts gas supplies this winter. Should that happen, it would be a major test of solidarity for the block.

Endemic esports media outlets are in the midst of a wave of layoffs. As they pivot to new business models, some industry observers are feeling pessimistic about the long-term viability of esports journalism — at least in its current form.