Hank Asher was a drug smuggler with a head for numbers — until he figured out how to turn Americans’ private information into a big business.

Few people outside of semiconductor manufacturing have ever heard of Applied Materials and its competitors—but what they do is more essential than ever to maintaining the global pace of technological progress.

Wowed by a new paper I just read and wish I had thought to write myself.

The disease hits farmworkers and outdoor laborers disproportionately hard

Designing software systems for Geometric Computing applications can be a challenging task. Software engineers typically use software abstractions to hide and manage the high complexity of such...

Watch a spacecraft deliver an asteroid sample to Earth! Our OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft is approaching Earth, and on Sept. 24, 2023, it will release its sample return capsule…

Free RDS for PostgreSQL —— Pigsty. Contribute to Vonng/pigsty development by creating an account on GitHub.

Last week we celebrated the end of YC's S23 batch. It seems like a good time to share some thoughts on the batch, and on the ways YC has changed in the last year.

Yes, if you have enough CPU RAM

The booming popularity of countertops made of engineered stone has driven a new epidemic of silicosis, an incurable lung disease, researchers have found.

The blog is now closed, but you can read the full story about the successful Osiris-Rex sample touchdown here

A team of researchers, led by a University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa planetary scientist, discovered that high energy electrons in Earth's plasma sheet are contributing to weathering processes on the ...

Use your Kindle Paperwhite as a writing device. Contribute to rberenguel/PiWrite development by creating an account on GitHub.

Escape the maze of nested code. Embrace simplicity with the early return approach.

What did Australians do online in the 1990s? Shared bioinformatics data, made cyberfeminist zines, cruised the information superhighway …

Back in the late 1970s, the most popular memory chip was Mostek's MK4116, holding a whopping (for the time) 16 kilobits. It provided stor...

It’s getting harder than ever to find a home in Australia with less than 1% of rental properties available for occupancy. That’s sending rents soaring to eye-watering levels, deepening a cost-of-living crunch.

The population growth of Greater Sydney is…

The warnings have taken on a new urgency after Canada alleged that India was involved in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.