Detail of a 1921 map that visualizes its own accuracy: red regions are accurately mapped, orange less so, etc. Historians love maps, b...

In a study from beyond the grave, the theoretical physicist sings (mathematically) of memory, loss and the possibility of data redemption.

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Breaking: @joyent, Gab’s new hosting provider, has just pulled our hosting service. They have given us until 9am on Monday to find a solution. Gab will likely be down for weeks because of this. Working on solutions. We will never give up on defending free…

Beijing-based Landscape says ‘something abnormal happened’ in the third stage of its ZQ-1 rocket

For DC and other cities concerned about rising traffic, a new study in Portland suggests scooters could be a solution. Residents and tourists are using e-scooters in place of car trips, and scooters are drawing people who've never ridden a bike or never traveled…

DuckDuckGo has been a profitable company since 2014 without storing or sharing any personal information on people using our search engine. As we like to say, what you search on DuckDuckGo is private, even from us! We’re proud to have a business mo...

Convolutional Neural Networks. Contribute to pjreddie/darknet development by creating an account on GitHub.

[More in the series of excerpts from the conversations in my new collection, The Innovator’s Cookbook. This is part of my exchange with the brilliant Ray Ozzie, who recently stepped down as…

Sharat Chander, Director of Product Management, Oracle Aurelio Garcia-Ribeyro, Director of Product Management - Java Platform Group, Oracle With the new late...

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When writing my master thesis about resource allocation in containers I wanted to show the relevance of performanceby citing something I always knew to be tr...

Based on the denoscription of the book in the World Scientific Press catalogue, I asked my university library to order a book ennoscriptd Automa...

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An investigation into the US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at almost every level.

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The Z Garbage Collector (ZGC) is a new JDK garbage collector designed for low latency and high scalability. For an industry-standard latency-sensitive benchmark, it achieves throughput over 36% higher…