Update (Dec. 15): This, by former Shtetl-Optimized guest blogger Sarah Constantin, is the post about SBF that I should’ve written and wish I had written.Update (Nov. 16): Check out this new intervi…

This really sucks to say after putting so much effort into it, but for regulatory reasons that have just come to light we’ve had to remove the open source passive radar code that we previously provided. We’re currently consulting with legal experts to see…

It was a painstaking process.

Euclidean what?! Over the last couple of years Euclidean rhythms became relatively popular in (electronic) music creation and production. Essentially they are a way of spacing out events (or pulses) across positions (or steps or time intervals) as evenly…

Saving reefs is possible—but there are challenges.

A pair of researchers, one with the University of Missouri at Saint Louis, the other at Johns Hopkins University, has found evidence of tattoos on the bodies of women who lived in Egypt thousands of years ...

They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There's a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.

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Why throw away your old Camera? In this guide we'll show you how simple it is to reuse your old Camera as a webcam using the NixOS linux distribution.

Among the young, social media, gaming and “rough sex” may contribute to this trend

Nature Metabolism - Malita, Kubrak et al. show that the gut-derived hormone neuropeptide F suppresses sugar intake and increases the consumption of protein-rich food in Drosophila. This gives...

What is "software dark matter"? And how popular is it in open source containers? Chainguard Labs finds out.