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?

US air safety bods call it 'potentially catastrophic' if reboot directive not implemented

This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in science focus on systematic biases. We broaden the lens to include conscious and unconscious decisions that…

Scientists found that the fish’s unusual broad-mouthed display is reserved only for fighting with other members of its species.

This wicked little electric beast looks like a ton of fun to drive, but it's even more impressive than it looks. The Blackbird is a visual effects stand-in for car commercials and filmmaking. Its width, wheelbase, suspension action and engine response can…

An 85-minute block interval left more than 13,000 transactions stuck in a pending state on Monday.

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Canonically a stablecoin is only issued in return for fiat currency. Everyone knows that rule is not followed 100% of the time in crypto…

A technical overview of Notado's migration to Fly.io

Almost 80 years after her death, a biography will be published this month, Tate Modern plans a 2023 exhibition, and she is the subject of a film, as she is finally recognised as a visionary artist

Back in 1931, Kurt Gödel published his first mathematical mic-drop: “Our formal systems of logic can make statements that they can neither prove nor disprove.” In this chapter, you’ll learn what this famous theorem means, and you’ll learn a proof of it that…

Tips for winning the automated testing battle.