Here’s a recent result I’ve been meaning to highlight. Most readers here will have heard of CAR-T therapy, chimeric antigen receptor T-cells. That’s the technique where you take T-cell precursor cells from a patient and modify them to where they’re “tuned…

More on the iOS/Android cultural divide: Technology is not enough.

Dr. Jack ReVelle disarmed two hydrogen bombs that accidentally fell near Goldsboro during the Cold War. But a military career of cleaning up nuclear accidents may have cut his life short.

Youtube is a great free source of information and entertainment that we’ve all used at some point. Here’s a guide on how to make it less distracting

On the 30th anniversary of The Muppet Christmas Carol, one writer considers the Muppets’ many spiritual insights

What is the best way to compress data in the browser? Is Wasm faster than JS? I have put together a small site that will let you run benchmarks within the browser.

Debug, simplify and execute.

Gina Apostol explores the works and cultural meanings of the great Filipino rebel-poet José Rizal....

If you’ve read my first post about assembly language, you might expect that this is another post on how to understand assembly language. I will write more about that at some point, but this post is not that. Instead, this post is going to talk about some…

Google’s parent company reported its fourth consecutive drop in quarterly profit, weeks after culling 6 percent of its work force to cut costs.

Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings

Your employer sees you as disposable.

John Carmack, the iconic Dallas game developer, rocket engineer, and VR pioneer, is taking aim now at solving AGI. If successful, his moonshot effort would be a ‘change-the-world-level’ event.

This morning I received an interesting scam email. It might not be a new scam, but it was the first time I’d seen it.

Astrée is a static program analyzer that proves the absence of runtime errors and invalid concurrent behavior in safety-critical applications written or generated in C or C++

The name "critical zone" may give off 1980s action thriller vibes, but it's the term scientists use to refer to the area of Earth's land surface responsible for sustaining life. A relatively small portion ...

Today I added support for sendmsg() and recvmsg() to my Blink virtual machine. Suddenly it's now able to run GUI programs. This might make it possible for us to run Linux desktop executables on other OSes and the web using WASM. https://t.co/ram0UF2Csf