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?

A comprehensive benchmark of multiple Image content filtering API providers across different categories like Nudity, Pornography and Gore.

Why Chips Die Semiconductor devices face many hazards before and after manufacturing that can cause them to fail prematurely.

In 1958, the U.S. military detonated atomic weapons high in Earth’s atmosphere—and found itself in a battle with scientists and the press to control just how the world found out.

Notes by `dpc`

Visualize and compare the impact of news events on industry share prices

I don't know since when VPN extensions have become popular, but VPN extensions should actually be called proxy extensions. The underlying involves no VPN but proxy, yet they claim they are as secure and private as a regular VPN. After several pentests and…