Apple has made a quiet update to the tech specs of the M2 iPad Air, which first launched last month....

For years, Professor Juan Manuel Corchado demanded that his collaborators include up to 20 references to his own work in their papers. On Friday he took office as the new rector of Salamanca University in Spain

Fast compilation is important when compilation occurs at runtime, such as query compilers in modern database systems and WebAssembly virtual machines in modern browsers. We present copy-and-patch,...

SPI Flash reader built from a Teensy or Arduino

Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.

The medieval service magicians who would find missing spoons, identify a thief, or help you win at cards.

The medieval service magicians who would find missing spoons, identify a thief, or help you win at cards.

This tide-predicting machine was one of many advances he made to maritime tech

The Mac’s original father envisioned a radically different machine than what Apple shipped in 1984. Then Canon gave him the chance to do things his way.

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Some forms of distributed snapshots were around for a while already when Chandy-Lamport's distributed snapshots paper was first published in 1985....

Artificial Intelligence and Law - Perhaps the most widely touted of GPT-4’s at-launch, zero-shot capabilities has been its reported 90th-percentile performance on the Uniform Bar Exam. This...

I'm sick of complex blogging solutions, so markdown files in a git repo it is - francisrstokes/githublog