Last Friday, Marriott sent out millions of emails warning of a massive data breach — some 500 million guest reservations had been stolen from its Starwood database. One problem: the email sender’s domain didn’t look like it came from Marriott at all. Marriott…

Understanding patterns is a key concept in permaculture. But what are they? How can we 'see' them with systems thinking and how can we apply them? Michael Mehaffy, long time student and colleague of Christopher Alexander, explores this new frontier of design.

The decade-long road to recovering cash has been a striking success.

The recent world chess championship saw Magnus Carlsen defend his noscript against Fabiano Caruana. But it was not a contest between the two strongest chess players on the planet, only the strongest humans. Soon after I lost my rematch against IBM's Deep Blue…

Discovery suggests worrying transmission possibilities

After reading and writing enough code, you begin to notice certain usage patterns. For example, if a stream is open, it will eventually be closed. More interestingly, if a string is used in the context of an if-statement, it will often be to check if the…

Nowadays, the words “artificial intelligence” seem to be on practically everyone’s lips, from Elon Musk to Henry Kissinger.…

Today, Nextcloud 15 has been made available. As there is so much new and improved in this release, we have dedicated separate blogs to each main area of improvement. This blog covers a preview of the the brand new Nextcloud Social app, introducing social…

In May, Google made quite the splash when it unveiled Duplex, its eerily humanlike voice assistant capable of making restaurant reservations and salon appointments. It seemed to mark a new milestone in speech generation and natural-language understanding…

Want to add Apple Airplay to your existing hifi system? Learn how to turn a Raspberry Pi into an Airplay server. This 7-step guide shows you how.

“Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis” uses the word “crisis” in the headline, but the “crisis” cited seems imaginary: is there …

Three perspectives on whether the internet is damaging democracy.

Soulja Boy has launched two cheap emulator video game consoles called SouljaGame and SouljaGame Handheld. Peep inside for more details.

Unworthy politicians, indulgent citizens and inequality did for Rome

Voyager 2, a space probe launched in 1977, becomes only the second human-made object to enter the space between the stars.

I am a big believer in the value of mentorship, both providing and receiving. As a mentor I have found that it has frequently helped me clarify my thinking on a number of topics, and crystallize some of the ideas and ways of doing things which have worked…