Long before Carmen Sandiego or The Oregon Trail there was The Sumerian Game. Not only was it the first edutainment game, it was the first narrative game.

MIT Whitehead and Broad Institute researchers designed an epigenetic editor that can silence the prion protein gene, which could potentially be developed into a therapy against fatal prion diseases. The same approach could be used against other genetic diseases.

IRS announced the collection of $1 billion in past-due taxes from high-income and high-net worth since 2023.

Authority cited by FTC just a "housekeeping statute," US judge in Texas rules.

Sociologists have shown that “third places” such as neighborhood cafés help people maintain and use their network ties. Do they help local entrepreneurs, for whom networks are important? We examine whether the introduction of Starbucks cafés into U.S. neighborhoods…

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Let's look at the numbers behind Xata's free tier. How much does a database cost us and why are we offering them for free.

Let's look at the numbers behind Xata's free tier. How much does a database cost us and why are we offering them for free.

A simple & elegant experiment tracking framework that integrates persistence logic & best practices directly into Python - amakelov/mandala

This post covers the design and creation of the Floppy8, a microcomputer and cartridge system which fits inside a floppy drive. To see it in action, checkout this video! The Floppy8 plays 4K movies and games on custom cartridges, features wireless controllers…

Open-source AI is in jeopardy. As community interest in AI models skyrocketed over the past year, we noticed that development of new open-source foundational models came to a halt. Some even boldly announced that open-source AI is dead. Not so fast!

We are…

You don't know what you've got till it's gone.

Companies are willing to lay off employees despite being profitable.

For the last four months I’ve been developing a custom container image builder, collaborating with Outerbounds1. The technical details of the builder itself might be the topic of a future article, but there’s something surprising I wanted to share already:…

The Phoebus cartel engineered a shorter-lived lightbulb and gave birth to planned obsolescence