By Michael Nielsen, December 2018

Banned from a meeting because of #GDPR. The Romanian Ministry of Education won't allow me to attend a meeting in which it might discuss the possibility to exempt high-ranking politicians' PhD theses from being checked for plagiarism. #journalism

People's names and addresses were listed on the FCC's website beside net neutrality comments they didn't make. Now the FBI is interested.

The latest test flight by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic makes it to the edge of space and back.

One of those awesome 90ies computer stories...

How do you test shell commands? Recently, I came across several cases where I wanted to run shell commands for testing, but couldn’t find…

The national housing slowdown is spreading to markets like Las Vegas and Phoenix, where only weeks ago prices were still accelerating.

Commenting without the comments. Contribute to tessalt/echo-chamber-js development by creating an account on GitHub.

Forced harvesting of organs from prisoners of conscience in China has been “substantial,” says an interim judgment of an independent “people’s tribunal” set up to determine whether the country’s transplantation practices breached international criminal law.…

Program a Linux GUI that runs on Ubuntu, Arch Linux and Fedora. In less than five minutes, your friends will be able to download and install your app.

Introduction
Writing documentation is like trying to hit a moving target. The way a system works changes constantly, so as soon...

The subway’s leader, Andy Byford, is raising the speed limit for trains on parts of the system and fixing faulty signal equipment.

Removed is a photographic series that explores the way personal devices play a role in society, relationships, and the body. Artist Eric Pickersgill physically removes screens from the hands of his subjects. The resulting images cause the viewer to question…

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Clarity, an analytics product that empowers webmasters to visualize user behavior at scale to make data driven decisions on what exactly they should change and improve on their sites to optimize conversion…

Creating fun photomosaics, GIFs, and murals from your family pictures using ML & similarity search - worldveil/photomosaic

You won't be able to order Whole Foods groceries on Instacart soon.

Here is how Istio and Hystrix differ in the implementation of the circuit breaker pattern, handling the lack of availability of a service.

Customers rely on us to help navigate the increasingly competitive cloud wars. This inspired the 2018 Cloud Report, a benchmark of AWS and GCP on performance, latency, CPU, network, I/O, and cost.

Several proposals expand the existing JavaScript class syntax with new functionality. This article explains the new public class fields syntax in V8 v7.2 and Chrome 72, as well as the upcoming private class fields syntax.

A report that a fish can pass the “mirror test” for self-awareness reignites debates about how to define and measure that elusive quality.