Fast prototyping revives a 70-year-old reactor design

Google is doubling down on AI internally to make its business more efficient.

Jean-François Cudennec University of Derby, College of Science and Engineering, Derby, United Kingdom. Email: jf.cudennec (at) live (dot) fr Download PDF A thick layer of time In the realm of Ninte…

This post describes my lessons learned after 10 years running production environments in sizes ranging from "just getting started" to a "Series F" company wi...

Timezones are weird. But only finitely so. Here's the exact conceptual model you should have of them.

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Edward G. Fox and Zachary Liscow propose a tax on billionaires that would apply to borrowing against assets and explain how it could be designed and how it relates to other wealth tax proposals, as well as potential critiques.

New law, letting people cross street outside of crosswalk, ends racial disparities in enforcement, council member says

Gunnar Morling discusses some of the tricks employed by the fastest solutions for processing a 13 GB input file within less than two seconds through parallelization and efficient memory access.

I took a databases class last year. In it, we learned about some theory and some practice and one of the most oft-cited papers was “On the Universal Relation” (1979) by Marc H. Graham (“MH Graham” on Google Scholar) at the University of Toronto. It’s apparently…

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a fault protection system prompted the spacecraft to turn off a transmitter. Engineers at JPL are investigating the incident, facing the challenge of managing commands and data over a 15 billion-mile distance. The team…

It has been eighteen years of libcurl ABI stability.

For simplicity, assume all relevant fields are NOT NULL.

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The long read: John Burton was just 27 when he was put in charge of creating Thorpe Park’s biggest-ever project. Once too scared to go on rides himself, how did he become the architect of so many daredevils’ dreams?

Peter B. Kaufman reviews the 18th edition of “The Chicago Manual of Style.”

Today, our cofounder and CEO Drew Houston shared the difficult news that we’ll be making reductions to our global workforce. Here's the email he sent to all employees.