Joseph Macken said he did the project as a hobby in his upstate basement.

We're releasing DuckDB version 1.4.0, codenamed “Andium”. This is an LTS release with one year of community support, and it packs several new features including database encryption, the MERGE statement and Iceberg writes.

Douglas Engelbart's 1968 "Mother of All Demos" at SRI showcased interactive computing innovations, including the mouse debut, hypertext, real-time editing, and collaborative tools, envisioning augmented human intellect.

Column: San Francisco's absurd, redundant startups are a relic of the past. 

Claude 4 is being favored over GPT-5

US auto safety regulators are probing whether Tesla Inc. door handles are defective, scrutinizing an approach the company has taken with millions of vehicles sold for more than a decade.

For the first time, researchers report that Arctic algae can hustle along in -15 C – the lowest-temperature movement ever recorded in complex, living cells.

By Sam Altman

Nothing but history's most interesting letters. Click to read Letters of Note, by Shaun Usher, a Substack publication.

A very common adage in ODE solvers is that if you run into trouble with an explicit method, usually some explicit Runge-Kutta method like RK4, then you should try an implicit method. Implicit methods, because they are doing more work, solving an implicit…

Today, we’re launching a new experimental Google app for Windows in Labs to help you find what you need, faster.Now you can search without switching windows or interrupt…

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.

On June 19th, my life changed with a phone call.

A nationwide study suggests infections with human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 have been virtually eliminated since vaccination began in 2008 – protecting even unvaccinated women.

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With many Samsung zFlip phones hitting the unfortunate fate of a broken folding screen, I took it as an opportunity to build my own silly phone. Taking only the minimum…