Donald Knuth’s Annual Christmas Tree Lectures are back! 🌲✨

This year Dr. Knuth will present on Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans. Three fascinating concepts, which seem at first to be entirely unrelated to each other, are in fact in one-to…

@mtaibbi: 1.THREAD: The Twitter Files TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" After weeks of “Twitter Files” reports detailing close coordination between the FBI and Twitter in moderating social media content, the Bu...…

After decades of promises, AI has finally leveled up. What does that mean for us?

A disturbing trend in consumer electronics has been a steady disappearance of replaceable batteries on our devices. Finding a mobile phone with a swapable battery is a struggle, and many other devi…

It finally happened!

Philip Ball on the visual ordering of all the elements known to humankind—and how we might order them differently.

This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim … Continue reading →

Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem of increasing proportions that we cannot afford to look away from. Our Editorial shines a light on the crisis and ways we can all help to address it.

<p><em>The idea of an all-knowing computer program comes from science fiction and should stay there. Despite the seductive fluency of ChatGPT and other language models, they remain unsuitable as sources of knowledge. We must fight against the instinct to…

This week is a twofer! We have the long-awaited Wayland fractional scaling support, and the equally long-awaited ultimate fix for Plasma’s multi-screen woes! Let’s take them one at a ti…

Spear-tip techniques may have made their way from Japan more than 16,000 years ago

CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY TO MASSACHUSETTS!

@MIT’s faculty votes to adopt the “MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom”!

For several months now, 20 teams of Australian high-school students have been designing fuel-cell cars to compete in the country’s inaugural Hydrogen Grand Prix. They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing…

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Who would have thought that adding a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes would actually sound good!😅

It's time for this myth to die.