For example, that universal basic income (UBI) could ameliorate the loss of jobs due to automation, a straw man would be, “So you want people to sit at home all day and collect free money?” Recently, the term has become a cudgel in the culture wars.

‘After the Revolution’ is the latest work of speculative fiction drawing on our real-life deadly climate, big money, sinister villains, and true believers.

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UK experts believe they can now explain the recent spate of mysterious liver problems in young children.

I just returned from the joint WG5/J3 meeting (the international and US committees in charge of producing the next revision to the Fortran standard). The Generics subgroup, of which I am a contribu…

Just as Microsoft built Typenoscript to update JavaScript, and Kotlin was created to shore up weaknesses in Java, Carbon could serve as a successor language to C++, one that offers an easy jumping off point for developers to a newer language that addresses…

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Casablanca is widely remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, coming in at #2 on the AFI’s top 100 list and similarly regarded by many other critics. You can quibble with its exac…

Tool and policy library for reviewing Google Kubernetes Engine clusters against best practices - GitHub - google/gke-policy-automation: Tool and policy library for reviewing Google Kubernetes Engin...

In the days after the mega-telescope started delivering data, astronomers reported new discoveries about galaxies, stars, exoplanets and even Jupiter.

Late last week came this report in Science about doctored images in a series of very influential papers on amyloid and Alzheimer’s disease. That’s attracted a lot of interest, as well it should, and as a longtime observer of the field (and onetime researcher…

U.S.- German auto parts company ZF has engineered a strut suspension front axle concept called EasyTurn, and it allows the front wheels to turn up to an incredible 80 degrees.

In 2021, I built my own floating-point interpreter system on my PERSEUS-8 computer. However, this system required a serial terminal for input/output, which was somewhat inconvenient to use for programming and calculation whenever I wanted. Therefore, I have…

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The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of road dust on human health. A PubMed search was used to extract references that included the words “road dust” and “health” or “fugitive dust” and ...

The dream of owning a home is increasingly out of reach. Democratic and authoritarian governments alike are struggling with the consequences.

I remember feeling derisive about marketing as a young techie — it wasn’t creating the value. Nowadays, I often marvel at how much amazing value is present that people just don’t know about. If only there was a way to bring it to their attention…