In a previous edition of this magazine, we argued that English was so pervasive in our industry, nobody even questioned its use anymore. The same can be said of Git. It is difficult to imagine that merely twenty years ago, the landscape of source control…

A recent subpoena request shows that film companies are trying to obtain information on a Redditor's piracy habits.

My wife uses Windows and over the years I've helped her move things to new systems. Win8, 10 and now 11. With every upgrade the UI changes. ...

Inside the incredible rise and insane fall of a premium snack startup

Brussels on Monday fined Apple 1.84 billion euros ($2 billion) for thwarting competition from music streaming rivals via restrictions on its App Store, the iPhone maker's first ever penalty for breaching EU rules.

Experiments demonstrate some of the unusual features of molecular reactions that occur in the deep cold of interstellar space.

This is the Corvette that Windows zip folders bought.

Back in '93 or so, I was working at Microsoft on COM, and at home for fun I started writing a shell extension to browse zip folders in the new Win95 user interface, making them appear as if they were…

With mere hours of experience in the art and science of optical design, the team at SUPERCHROMAT remain novices in the field. As such, this prime lens, with 6 elements over 4 groups, provides inferior optical performance at a price affordable to few.

Regardless…

Understanding the functional architecture of complex systems is crucial to illuminate their inner workings and enable effective methods for their prediction and control. Recent advances have...

Today, we're announcing the Claude 3 model family, which sets new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. The family includes three state-of-the-art models in ascending order of capability: Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3…

Singapore Airlines once operated a Concorde between the Lion City and London. Here's the full story of a mostly ill-fated venture.

The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now turning a mathematical eye to literature.

Nature - An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge.

Apple today announced the new MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip, taking its power-efficient performance and portability to a new level.

The Economist posted a controversial article arguing that wages are driving inflation. Let’s revisit why this is not the case.

Embedded software is used in safety-critical systems such as medical devices and autonomous vehicles, where software defects, including security vulnerabilities, have severe consequences. Most...