As I slept fitfully, still recovering from COVID, I had one of the more interesting dreams of my life: I was desperately trying to finish some PowerPoint slides in time to give a talk. Uncharacteri…

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Facebook has banned the Holocaust film ‘Beautiful Blue Eyes’ over its noscript, saying content can't include “assertions or implications about a person’s race.”

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We uncovered a campaign on the Microsoft Edge home page where malicious ads are luring victims into tech support scams.

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Foldscope makes science more accessible. Our foldable paper microscopes are low-cost devices that bring the wonders of the microscopic world to all.

Border officials can copy information from travelers' phones without a warrant.

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How we interact with programming environment matters more than the language, but such interaction has never been widely studied. Inspired by the idea of 'complementary science', this essay recovers interesting ideas from how programming used to be done using…

Winamp reimplemented in HTML5 and JavaScript

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US News relegated Columbia to 18th from second place after it was revealed the college had misrepresented key statistics