Homicides went up in 2020 and 2021 and are now rapidly coming back down. Violent crime nationwide hasn't increased. But the perception of a crime wave still colors U.S. politics.

The USS Recruit (1917) served an important purpose during the conflict.

We talked to famed tech writer Cory Doctorow about his new book, The Internet Con; the fight against Big Tech; and how technology itself isn’t the problem — it's about who holds the reins.

LX Studio: the modern digital lighting workstation

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It's not much bigger than your finger, it looks like a leftover from an electronics factory, but its makers believe their £15 computer could help a new generation discover programming....

There are 13 divorces among the 10 richest men in the world.

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There is no full version of this video on Youtube, so I decided to upload it. I do not own this video nor claim copyright to it's use. It is currently available in two parts on the Internet Archives, here: https://archive.org/det…

A diverse set of species, from snails to algae to amoebas, make programmable DNA-cutting enzymes called Fanzors—and a new study from scientists at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research has identified ...

Wealthiest 3,000 working on ‘edge of legality’ using shell companies to funnel dividends and own property to avoid income tax, says study

In Kotelniki, a town in the Moscow region, OMON (riot police) officers raided a mosque and took the worshippers to a military enlistment office, where they were forced to sign a contract with the Defense Ministry under threat of criminal charges, according…

I got sucked into researching the origins of the 3.5in floppy disk after looking into one of my recent HP drives. That sent me on a long quest to better understand the format and finding out some very interesting things I didn't even know existed!

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Comparing two identically designed websites, their weight, amount of HTML and CSS, rendering speed, and best practices.

We've combined lab-grown neurons with silicon chips and made it available to anyone, for first time ever.

Base64 encoding converts binary data into ASCII text. Let's do a deep dive to learn how it works.