Recent announcements of NVIDIA’s new Turing GPUs, RTX technology, and Microsoft’s DirectX Ray Tracing have spurred a renewed interest in ray tracing. Using these technologies vastly simplifies the…

September 11, 2015 – Everyone knows Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”—and almost everyone gets it wrong. From The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves

Hey there 👋 I’m Fabio, a self-taught developer passionate about open source and empowering people. I also like to make my own tools, so…

Insight Fellow Carlos Atico Ariza discusses Malaria Hero, a web app that screens and helps diagnose malaria using machine learning.

On the eve of the midterm elections, peer pressure apps make it easy to instantly snoop on the voting history of friends, family and strangers.

Boston Metal has developed technology to electrify steelmaking, and a pending funding round will kick-start a large demonstration project.

A new proof from the Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan and a 2011 proof anonymously posted online are now being hailed as significant advances on a puzzle mathematicians have been studying…

The clinic’s practices are unsafe and unethical, five former clinic employees said.

Around a year ago, the research team presented a molecule that was capable of storing solar energy. The molecule, made from carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen, has the unique property that when it is hit by sunlight, it is transformed into an energy-rich isomer…

loopholes, licenses, and realpolitik in open source

I’ve been a big fan of Azure DevOps since the early days when the service was still named Visual Studio Online. I use it for both professional and personal projects, and I regularly recommended it …

We know that climate change is happening – but there are plenty of things individuals can do to help mitigate it. Here’s your handy guide to the most effective strategies.

We commissioned an independent human rights impact assessment on the role of our services in Myanmar.

In 1976, construction workers accidentally cut into a petroleum pipeline running under the streets of Culver City, California, resulting in a fatal explosion that essentially leveled half of a city block. It wasn’t the first or last accident of its kind,…

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In light of Oracle’s recent announcement indicating an end to free long-term support for OpenJDK after January 2019, we re-affirm that the OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 Java runtimes in Amazon Linux 2 will continue to receive free long-term support from Amazon…

Lizenzen: Wir verwenden für Bilder soweit angegeben Creative Commons Lizenzen ( Links zu den Linzenzen finden sie aus technischen Gründen hier CC BY SA, CC BY ND, CC BY )Thanks for the discussion on HN and all the feedback. As pointed out by 255kb, there…