The online sports gambling industry employs teams of data analysts to build forecast models that turn the odds at sports games in their favour. While several betting strategies have been proposed...

Getting Started with FPGAs

The best book for beginners, making FPGAs easy and fun!

I wrote a book! Whether you have been toying with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for years or are completely new to these reprogrammable devices, this book will…

Pixel-Perfect Multi-Platform Applications with C# and WinUI for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux

A lawsuit by the world's wealthiest man against one of the fastest growing companies of all time is necessarily interesting stuff. But while the

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Nature Astronomy - A reanalysis of the Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shows that it occurred during an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere by the upstream solar wind. This would have...

A bug, most probably in the early part of kernel boot in guest macOS, prevents M4 Macs virtualising macOS prior to 13.4.

The picture that emerges is that a placebo pill has almost no effect when administered by researchers who do not care about the placebo effect, but the exact same pill has an enormous effect larger…

LLMs don’t make chips better. Good engineers do.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) advancements over the past few years have had an unprecedented and revolutionary impact across everyday application areas. Its significance also extends to technical...

As Adobe’s public perception continues to struggle, Apple is making moves to take advantage; it's had a decade to ponder a return.

An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens. The group has written a paper describing the findings and ...

The query optimizer is an important part of any analytical database system as it provides considerable performance improvements compared to hand-optimized queries, even as the state of your data changes.

Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects

After 14 years with MailChimp, I decided to switch. I researched the top 26 email marketing tools to find a replacement and here’s what I discovered.