I recently purchased an original Macintosh User Manual (thanks eBay!). I had seen one at a garage sale, and was struck by how it had to explain a total paradigm shift in interacting with computers.…

We've known for some time that we're in the midst of Peak TV, but now FX has quantified that ongoing phenomenon. Its annual research report reveals that, for the first time ever, streaming shows now outnumber their traditional-TV counterparts. 495 noscripted…

All 16,000 buses in the fast-growing Chinese megacity are now electric, and soon all 22,000 taxis will be too

Since its inception in the 1950s, radiocarbon dating has proven indispensable to archaeologists and climate scientists, who rely on the technique to accurately date organic compounds. But a good thing just got better, owing to the discovery of two stalagmites…

We all know that classic aphorism: Year comes to an end, Rust blog post press send. This is mine.
There are lots of cool technical improvements to Rust that I want the project to achieve this year, …

What if we got the business model of the web wrong?

The economy is thriving, but many Americans say they aren’t seeing a difference in their paychecks.

There’s a lot you can make with a 3D printer: prosthetics, corneas, firearms — even an Olympic-standard luge.

While we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people’s biases and entrenched behaviors get in the way. In this article a Darden professor explains how design thinking helps people…

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A C++ HTML document constructor only depending on the standard library. - tinfoilboy/CTML

Amazon.com has trained people to buy everything online. Now it is having second thoughts about some of those sales because they don’t make money—and is pushing big brands to change how they use its site.

I’m on Team Firefox.

Leonard Susskind is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and he’s regarded as one of the fathers of string theory.

The director restored archival combat film to pristine clarity for his latest project.

What it shows:Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and random motion. One might call this kinetic art and the choreography of the dance of the pendulums…