The special effects for the computer-display in the glider from John Carpenter's Escape From New York (1981) are really neat. They're a neat wireframe display of the city, presumably from some kind of radar. https://t.co/o2kPgghoIJ

In days gone by businesses proclaimed “we’re gonna do Hadoop Jase!”, no word of a lie, they used to phone me up and tell me so…… my response was fairly standard. Now t…

Documents alleged to contain revelations on data and privacy controls that led to Cambridge Analytica scandal

It took the power of the internet to crack it.

America Online said Tuesday it will acquire Netscape Communications, a leading Internet browser company, in a $4.2 billion deal that sets the stage for a competitive tug-of-war with software titan Microsoft Corp.

Python package for earth-observing satellite data processing - pytroll/satpy

Tau Prolog: A Prolog interpreter in JavaScript.

After almost 7 years of developing and maintaining this project, I've decided that it's time to archive this (and all other) repositories in the Fine Uploader organization and effectively s...

There’s a scientific reason no one outside the South can nail them.

LinkedIn, the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users, has been called out a number of times for how it is able to suggest uncanny connections to you, when it’s not even clear how or why LinkedIn would know enough to make those…

Knut Karnapp posed this very interesting question over on Twitter. His answer: To me you own a part of the Bitcoin UTXO set uniquely assigned to you, and only you — by virtue of the corresponding p…

Minimal yet super-functional serverless boilerplate - harijoe/serverless-boilerplate

Gathering detailed information on exoplanets is extremely difficult. The light from their host star overwhelms the light from the exoplanet, making it difficult for telescopes to see them. But now a team using cutting-edge technology at the Keck Observatory…

China’s plan to judge each of its 1.3 billion people based on their social behavior is moving a step closer to reality, with Beijing set to adopt a lifelong points program by 2021 that assigns personalized ratings for each resident.

Nearly two years ago, on February 2012, one of the largest library on Earth burned, and no “mainstream” media, no politician denounced it. The reason for this silence is that the librar…

Evidence for life in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks appears to be crumbling away.

Industrial Raspberry Pi for Maximum Reliability
The Strato Pi units transform a standard Raspberry Pi computer into a rugged, industry-ready solution, adding hardware features and industrial compliance that ensure reliability, security, fault tolerance,…

Chinese affiliation raises a sign of alarm in light of China's recent clampdown of "unauthorized" VPN services.

Do we need Facebook?