USB-IF's new USB-C spec supports up to 120Gbps across three lanes.

People who use their Macs to back up or sync their iPhones and iPads have discovered they must enter their device passcode for every connection. What’s up with that?!? Adam Engst explains: it’s Apple’s ham-handed response to a security vulnerability.

Mathematicians have uncovered a surprising wealth of rock-paper-scissors-like patterns in randomly chosen dice.

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Sandboxed kernel mode WebAssembly runtime. Contribute to wasmerio/kernel-wasm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Maintaining our security commitment to our customers

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GNU Octave is a programming language for scientific computing.

Version 1.0 of the Swift Visual Studio Code extension is out. It is no longer in preview. This version has a couple of minor additions to v0.10.0 plus a number of bug fixes. You can find the changelog here.

Royce Williams was a real-life "Top Gun" 10 years before Tom Cruise was even born.

A dump of the Raw Stadia controller BT Firmware. Contribute to Scyne/stadiaRawBtFw development by creating an account on GitHub.

Area 120, Google's division for experimental projects that sometimes graduate to become core Google services, has largely been shuttered.

Enacted dreams could be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease

Kids scream, “Monster in the hallway!”, and hide behind the couch. They stack up cushions for protection, and plan their defense. They know it’s not true — there’s not really a monster in the hallway — but it’s exciting to feel the adrenaline of panic, then…

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One battery for the powertrain, another for the house functions and rooftop solar.