Sometimes I post in an online community of computer touchers, as one does. When talking flippantly about programming languages, it’s sometimes useful to glob a bunch of them together based on characteristics, whether superficial or not. This started with…

Somalia has long played host to one of the world's strangest monetary phenomenon, a paper currency without a central bank. I explored the...

Scientists may have discovered a major flaw in their understanding of that mysterious cosmic force. That could be good news for the fate of the universe.

It’s only me, and my colleagues can assure you that I’m mostly harmless. I do software development and work at one of Vincit offices in Phoenix, Arizona.

The cancer patients saw their tumours disappear after the treatment, and have been cancer-free for two years.

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Apple today updated its App Store guidelines to comply with an anti-steering mandate levied by the European Commission. Music streaming apps like...

Some Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-25 school year. The school doesn’t really want to talk about it.

Learn how to deliver the best possible code with JetBrains code analysis. Use our 3,000+ inspections in and out of your IDE and CI/CD pipeline to find and fix security issues, performance concerns, and coding bad practices.

As decisions over the future viability of deep sea mining are under review, Planet Tracker’s latest report ‘The Climate Myth of Deep Sea Mining’ examines deep sea mining companies’ claim that mining polymetallic nodules could be a low carbon alternative to…

A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world.

Throwing people out of windows (or defenestrating them, as the Latin has it) is an act imbued with longstanding political significance in Prague. From the Hussite revolt in the late Middle Ages through the Thirty Years’ War to modern instances of “autodefenestration”…

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We present a fully autonomous self-recharging drone system capable of long-duration sustained operations near powerlines. The drone is equipped with a robust onboard perception and navigation system that enables it to locate powerlines and approach them for…

For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure. 

Scientific inquiry once flourished in the Arabic world. Why did it disappear? On the rise and fall of the Golden Age of Arabic science. 

The new SDXL 1.0 text-to-image generation model was recently released that generates small artifacts in the image when the earlier 0.9 release didn't have them.

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In this blog post, we share our journey to build a ClickHouse-powered logging solution that today stores over 19 PiB of data (1.13 PiB compressed) in our AWS regions alone, and costs 200x less than Datadog.