In buying iRobot, the e-commerce titan gets a data collection machine that comes with a vacuum.

The digital media company’s founders, Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz, will continue to run the company.

I blog mostly about my own programming projects.

A guide and video on how to modify an Ikea Symfonisk Gen2 Speaker into a general purpose Sonos Amplifier.

The Procurement Chamber of Baden-Württemberg held that a company had to be excluded from a public procurement procedure, as its offer violated the GDPR. This is because compliance with data protection law was a requirement of the tender. The Chamber held…

If you gave a bank executive a blank canvas and asked them to paint you something, they might come up with something like this: If you showed the first painting to an executive at a second bank and asked that executive to come up with something better, they’d…

My friend Andrew is an advocate of the “spaced repetition” technique for memorization of a great many facts [1]. The ideas behind this are two-fold: When one first “learns” a new fact, it needs to be reviewed frequently in order to not forget it. However…

Technical Writing Courses for Engineers

An infinite number of machine monkeys paint an infinite number of blog thumbnails

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 was awarded to Olga Tokarczuk "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life"

Throughout evolution, individual cells have been making successful decisions on their own, even while forming parts of vast networks, such as neurons and glia in the human brain. Now scientists from the EPFL Blue Brain Project and King Abdullah University…

A deep dive into what drives gamers to keep coming back

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To mark the occasion of the eighth Federated Logic Conference (FloC), Amazon’s Byron Cook, Daniel Kröning, and Marijn Heule discussed automated reasoning’s prospects.