Our legal team decided to clear a few things up about using the VELCRO® trademark correctly. Don't say "Velcro", say VELCRO® Brand.

The Fourth Amendment is rarely a match for the Third Party Doctrine. In recent years, things have gotten a wee bit better thanks to a couple of Supreme Court rulings. But the operative principle st…

A new GPU generation did very little to change the speed you get for your money.

With challenges in meeting clean energy goals and new electricity demands, politicians in both parties seek to prolong and even expand reactor use.

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If you’re looking for a molecular modeling kit, head to https://ve42.co/SnatomsV to try Snatoms – a kit I invented where the atoms snap together…

Tests in animals show the material works like the body's own system.

Josh wrote recently about a serious security bug that appeared in Debian Linux back in 2006, and whether it was really a backdoor inserted by the NSA. (He concluded that it probably was not.) Today I want to write about another incident, in 2003, in which…

The new normal in tech recruiting

My current record is 44 metres – there’s definitely a special technique

We investigate the unusual way memory subsystem interacts with branch prediction and how this interaction shapes software performance.

The world’s longest land and subsea interconnector started commercial operations today (29th December 2023).

Last week, US Steel announced it was being acquired by Japanese steel company Nippon Steel.

No good deed goes unpunished (at least in Europe) Those who know me know I wrote my first code in the early 80s, and though I never made a career...

A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people.

For years doctors in the US made little attempt to save the lives of premature babies, but there was one place distressed parents could turn for help - a sideshow on Coney Island.

A study from Harvard says social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year.