California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday proclaimed a state of emergency Saturday for a large portion of Southern California, as the state prepares for a historic hurricane expected to cause extreme rain and flooding.

Datasette Cloud is the new SaaS hosting platform for the Datasette open source project. It enables teams to create a private collaboration space, upload and share data securely with each other, and then selectively publish that data to the world.

Training an RAF air traffic controller costs around £86,000. Lesley Judd tries out the multi-million-pound simulator at RAF Shawbury, and reports on a new micro-based training aid that will soon be installed in control towers around the country. How many…

The Apple Macintosh combined brilliant design in hardware and in software. The drawing program MacPaint, which was released with the computer in January of 1984, was an example of that brilliance both in what it did, and in how it was implemented.

August 16 was an especially big day for this island of stability

YAGNI

Astronomers have found a star that has a magnetic field rivaling the strongest magnet humans have ever built.

Photoshop maker Adobe's co-founder John Warnock died on Saturday aged 82, the company said in a statement early on Sunday.

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

How could a book about the Maui, Hawaii fires be written, edited, published and up for sale on Amazon already? About once a week I peruse Amazon for new books and releases. Imagine my shock when I came across a completed book on the August fires in Maui already…

“That’s clearly left !” 3D hearing is a learned skill where your brain deducts the direction that a sound is coming from based on …

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements—A Review

My understanding of the expansion of space itself is very shaky,
but if space itself is expanding,
then shouldn't very very distant objects appear magnified?
For example these James Webb Space Tele...

Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project

Track real-time and historical electricity data worldwide — see production mix, CO2 emissions, prices, cross-border exports, and much more.

An announcement from Nivenly about Kris Nóva