A history of the visual expression of ideas, from cave paintings to emoji.

It seems like this time of year anyone with a blog is doing some sort of ‘advent calendar’, i.e. 24 posts leading up to Christmas. For instance there’s a F# one which inspired a C# one (C# copying from F#, that never happens 😉)

· Read in · 1499 words · All posts in series · [dropcap]This[/dropcap] trick is unlike the others we’ve conjured. It will not reveal a clever manipulation of a probability or an integral or a…

Move over, trap-jaw ants and mantis shrimp: There's a faster appendage in town. According to a new study, the Dracula ant, Mystrium camillae, can snap its mandibles at speeds of up to 90 meters per second (more than 200 mph), making it the fastest animal…

TweetDeck for GitHub - Filter Issues, Activities & Notifications - Web, Mobile & Desktop with 99% code sharing between them - devhubapp/devhub

Not too many years ago there was a spate of newspaper and magazine articles asking where all the “protest” songs were. Well, here they are...…

The online retailer has teamed up with police in New Jersey to fight parcel theft with dummy packages.

That’s not a typo—today we’re shipping Bootstrap 3.4.0, a long overdue update to address some quality of life issues, XSS fixes, and build tooling updates to make it easier for us, and you, to develop.
While we’d planned for ages to do a fresh v3.x update…

Objective To determine if using a parachute prevents death or major traumatic injury when jumping from an aircraft.

Design Randomized controlled trial.

Setting Private or commercial aircraft between September 2017 and August 2018.

Participants 92 aircraft…

The government of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has spent billions to counter selloffs in recent months following the killing of a dissident journalist, a corruption crackdown and a showdown with Qatar.

Like many others, we have been following the latest developments in Australia related to the “Assistance and Access” bill with a growing sense offrustration. The widespread adoption of strong cryptography and end-to-end encryption has given people around…

A web-based animation tool for Google Earth’s satellite and 3D imagery.

When the former CTOs of YouTube, Facebook and Dropbox seed fund a database startup, you know there’s something special going on under the hood. Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane saved YouTube from a scalability nightmare by inventing and open-sourcing Vitess…

Join the community & support this channel. Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/SwapnilBhartiyaIn this interviews, Linus Torvalds talks about why Linux h...

The theft almost always benefits China's official economic policy.

The greatest hardware hacks of all time were simply the result of finding software keys in memory. The AACS encryption debacle — the 09 F9 key that allowed us to decrypt HD DVDs — was t…