Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization of iron and steelmaking, between roughly 1200 and 1850. To briefly recap, making steel was an involved, multistep process. Iron would first be smelted from…

Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”

On its 40th anniversary, we look back at the machine that brought the GUI to personal computers.

It has resistance or reduced susceptibility to all drugs recommended for treatment.

An award-winning Twitter Client for iOS.

NuScale power module becomes the first SMR design certified by the NRC.

My experience hunting for a job in late 2022, and advice for other job seekers

On January 8, 2024, GitHub will remove support for Subversion.

A common criticism directed at F-Droid is that F-Droid signs published APKswith its own keys. Using our own keys doesn’t mean insecure — we have a goodtrack ...

Animal rights activists have captured the first hidden-camera video from inside a carbon dioxide “stunning chamber” in a US meatpacking plant.

Throughout the Zero to main() series of posts, we demystify what happens between when power is applied and your main function is called. In the process, we’ll learn how to bootstrap a C environment, implement a bootloader, relocate code, and more!

Observations of the night sky by citizen scientists show that it is rapidly getting brighter due to light pollution.

"The hope was that the verdict would be different and Ms. Holmes would be able to make this trip to attend the wedding of close friends in Mexico," an attorney for Holmes said in a filing.

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and his cofounders weren’t interested in starting a business, and even less interested in making a profit on the tech. Eight years later, at least three are billionaires.

[Updated on 2023-01-24: add a small section on Distillation.]
Large transformer models are mainstream nowadays, creating SoTA results for a variety of tasks. They are powerful but very expensive to train and use. The extremely high inference cost, in both…

The tech giant held a Sting performance in Davos where the business elite is attending the World Economic Forum, according to The Wall Street Journal.