I’m continuing my coverage of dangerous Internet bills in the California legislature. This job is especially challenging during an election year, when legislators rally behind the “protect the kids” mantra to pursue bills  that are likely to hurt, or at...

On June 23rd, the WebKit project froze its Subversion tree and transitioned management and interaction with our source code to git on GitHub.

Communications Earth & Environment - High bicycle ownership does not necessarily correlate with high bicycle use, with substantial health and environmental gains possible by worldwide...

Ever since first hearing about Entity Component Systems and their implications in game development, I’ve wanted to build one for my own usage and knowledge. There are a few examples that people have built and posted online (1, 2), and there are a few full…

Engineers like automating tasks. You find yourself running a set of commands, copying values between files and prompts, and you think I can automate this!
Aside from the joke: “why spend 30 minutes doing something when you can spend 2 days writing a program…

In an exclusive interview with TV 2 SPORT, former Chinese badminton star Ye Zhaoying discloses details hitherto held secret.

Americans born in 2021 can expect to live for just 76.1 years — the lowest life expectancy has been since 1996, according to a new analysis. It's the biggest two-year decline in almost 100 years.

Privileged ports were a security feature in the days of dumb terminals, in the age of the World Wide Web, they are a security vulnerability.

The men's marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, took place on August 30 of that year, over a distance of 24 miles 1500 yards (40 km).

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Finding new homes for a cherished collection of rare books brings back a family’s complicated love affair with reading.