The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.

Follow the saga of the Computer History Museum's IBM 1401

I’m in San Sebastián, Spain, but I could really be anywhere. I’ve flown halfway across the world, but from inside this coffee shop, I can’t tell what country I’m in.  They say that travel allows you to see different ways of living, but that’s definitely…

MIT researchers have developed an autonomous system for drones to collaboratively search under dense forest canopies for lost hiker search-and-rescue missions. The system uses only onboard computation and wireless communication, without GPS.

<p>Many writers anecdotally report they write best first thing early in the morning, apparently even if they are not morning people. Do they, and why?</p>

The world has two years to secure a deal for nature to halt a ‘silent killer’ as dangerous as climate change, says biodiversity chief

How folk tales and traditional life snuck into avant-garde kids' books in the 1930s.

The data that powers the most cutting edge technology in Silicon Valley begins in Nairobi's slum.

Regular readers of this blog will know that I went through a process of de-Googling my life a while ago. For the most part I think the process was pretty ... More -->

This summer, I’ve been working on coming up with better ways to solve network congestionon the internet. In this post, I’m going to talk about why congestion...

People are sharing their deepest secrets on Facebook. Does the social network understand what it’s gotten into?

The Swedish ISP Bahnhof has a strong historic commitment to free speech, so when the notoriously corrupt science publishing giant Elsevier (previously) sought to force the ISP to censor connections…

A guide to a secure and streamlined installation of OpenBSD 6.4 on a laptop.