Crystal is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language. With syntax inspired by Ruby, it’s a compiled language with static type-checking. Types are resolved by an advanced type inference algorithm.

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Why can't Meta A/B test its way back to greatness? To move Instagram beyond short-term engagement metrics, we ran a personalized human evaluation asking 100 users to compare TikTok vs. Instagram Reels. Learn why Gen Z considers Reels the place where TikToks…

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USB-C is getting yet another specification.

Following the cancellation of thousands of flights this summer, the German state of Lower Saxony, in the country’s north west, has renewed calls to abolish advance payment for flight bookings.

Fog Reveal is "almost invisible" when attempting to search for it online.

John Aristotle Phillips, founder of political data-analytics firm Aristotle, graduated from Princeton University with a degree in aerospace engineering in the class of 1978[1]. Known as the “A-bomb kid,” Phillips is known for a project he did in a physics…

Play the numbers game from Countdown. New round every day!

For today’s episode of War Stories, Ars Technica sat down with Naughty Dog Co-founder Andy Gavin to talk about the hurdles in bringing the original Crash Bandicoot to gamers around the world. When Andy and his partner Jason Rubin made the decision to bring…

Wavacity is a port of the Audacity audio editor to the web browser. Free and open-source. No install required.

Elixir v1.14 is out with a focus on debugging and developer experience

People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems

A 14-year-old Tasmanian boy cracks four levels of code imprinted on a commemorative 50-cent coin in "just over an hour" after it was released by the nation's foreign intelligence cybersecurity agency — and the spy boss says she wants to meet him so she can…

Extroverts are such a pain and a poison that we feel Virgil Starkwell’s agony when, in “Take the Money and Run,” he breaks the rules while working on a chain gang and “for several days he is...

Milestone was passed in quarter ending in June, says Counterpoint Research

Animating prompts with stable diffusion

“Quiet quitting” is a new name for an old behavior. The authors, who have conducted 360-degree leadership assessments for decades, have regularly asked people to rate whether their “work environment is a place where people want to go the extra mile.” Their…

The Off-Site Source Recovery Program recovers unwanted, excess, and abandoned radioactive sealed sources.