In 1978, my cousin August Palmisano died in a car bombing in downtown Milwaukee. Many suspected crime boss Frank Balistrieri. Could I find the truth?

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Installation artwork by Vitling

In *Going Infinite*, the famed chronicler of American finance proves he’s more interested in myths than morals — or even math.

The brain’s sensitivity to rewarding experiences — a critical factor in motivation and attention — can be shaped by socioeconomic conditions, according to an MIT study.

Creators still face "name and likeness" complaints; lawyer says suit will continue.

Today we revisit the FBI's tracking of two French existentialists, Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. We also discuss how the FBI grew concerned that Sartre could upend the belief that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman after the JFK assassination.

Years ago I spent some time analyzing Candle-Flicker LEDs that contain an integrated circuit to mimic the flickering nature of real candles. Artificial candles have evolved quite a bit since then, …

Another omnidirectional treadmill has been making the rounds this week. This one from Disney looks very cool, with a creative mechanism for moving the feet around that has a lot of advantages.

Scientists have identified 85 new exoplanets, a major advancement in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Spam on GitHub is getting out of control and affecting 10,000's of users daily. GitHub is seemly doing nothing about it, here is the proof.

No shots fired. No flags raised. No land gained. Still, the U.S. recently grew by the size of about two Californias.

Stable Diffusion may soon have some competition when it comes to open-source image generators. In its latest iteration, PixArt becomes faster and more accurate while maintaining a relatively high resolution.

Welcome to the open review site for Mireille Hildebrandt’s Law for Computer Scientists, forthcoming Oxford University Press 2019.

Composer and bassoonist brin solomon on Peter Schickele (aka, P.D.Q. Bach), who died at his home on January 16, 2024, at the age of 88.

DuckDB can attach MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite databases in addition to databases stored in its own format. This allows data to be read into DuckDB and moved between these systems in a convenient manner.

By Eric Niderost When Albert Einstein arrived in Pasadena, California, in early 1933, he was to take up his duties as visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology for about three months. CalTech President Robert Millikan had made all the arrangements…

An OCR (Optical Character Recognition) utility for text extraction from images.