I write stuff about math, simulation, graphics, gamedev, and programming.

When the first mainframes were running businesses seven decades ago, software was an afterthought. The real, differentiated and thereby commercial value lay in the design and construction of the hardware – everything from the processor to the storage. Thus…

Arturo programming language: Simple, expressive & portable programming language for efficient noscripting

/PRNewswire/ -- Parlement Technologies announced today that it has entered into an agreement in principle to sell Parler, the world's pioneering uncancelable...

Nature - The US National Science Foundation has decided to instead open an educational centre at the site.

Over the past 10-20 years, and particularly in recent years, the computer vision research community has produced an abundance of frameworks capable of taking a single image and using it to perform 'deepfake puppetry' – the use of the facial and body movements…

Contrary to his original intentions, cryptocurrencies and DeFi platforms are now more vulnerable to privacy breaches and hacking than…

Live counter of Uber's net losses. $30B and counting.

New research provides evidence that narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism -- maladaptive personality traits known as the "Dark Triad" -- are ...

Kanye West was recently locked out of his Twitter and Instagram accounts for making antisemitic comments. Parler says the acquisition will help create an “uncancelable ecosystem.”

Luke Page has a great post up with his list of YAGNI exceptions. YAGNI—You Ain’t Gonna Need It—is a rule that says you shouldn’t add a feature just because it …

American Airlines is using sophisticated ‘bot detection’ software to stop the developer of an iPhone app that has become popular amongst the airline’s flight attendants from accessing vital data that is needed to keep the app working. The ‘Sequence Decoder’…

Two of the largest U.S. supermarket chains hope to join forces as inflation pushes food prices higher and as Amazon and Walmart become more powerful.

The games are a bonanza for the companies that states hire to administer them. But what about the rest of us?