Linus might be waiting for one Great Pumpkin in particular, but giant pumpkin enthusiasts are growing increasingly colossal squashes, some weighing more than 2,000 pounds.

Chinook salmon spark excitement among local Klamath Tribes, who have advocated for decades to restore the flow of the river in California and Oregon

Paul Graham's essay noscriptd "Good and Bad Procrastination" argues that procrastination can be virtuous when it means putting off small tasks to work on more important ones.

The only EVs that sold better in the third quarter were other Tesla vehicles, according to Cox Automotive estimates.

How I discovered mysterious hidden signals on a public radio channel and eventually found out their meaning through hardware hacking, rev...

Now disappearing, long wave radio broadcasts once gave a taste of far flung countries and cultures.

Learn the background of the JPEG XL image codec, its advantages, and the current status of its standardization process at the JPEG Committee.

Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.

If vulnerable patients are going to take powerful hallucinogens, they deserve better evidence.

Shivaun Raff and her husband, Adam, describe their long court battle with technology giant Google.

Canvas fingerprinting is a tracking method that uses HTML5 Canvas code to generate a unique identifier for each individual user. The method is based on the fact that the unique pixels generated through Canvas code can vary depending on the system and browser…

We really did this! We work in a very large Javanoscript monorepo at Microsoft we colloquially call 1JS. Using some new changes to the git client it went from 178GB to 5GB.

If you trace the path of the Dora Baltea River in early spring, when it swells with melting snow from the Matterhorn, you will quietly…

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect ancient lonely quasars with murky origins. They appear to have few cosmic neighbors, raising questions about how they first emerged more than 13 billion years ago. A quasar is an incredibly bright…

Can you imagine using a keyboard where it took a key press two seconds to show up on screen? That’s the typical latency for most voice interfaces, so it’s no wonder they’ve failed…

Now that we’re increasingly concerned about the dominance of ‘big tech’, Open Source is often mentioned as an alternative, especially since our governments are carrying out a Total Migration to Microsoft.
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