Chatty gamers are apparently worth billions.

inflected Polish-language word adopted as a catchphrase by Mad magazine in the 1950s, and also the name of a system of weights and measures

The extraordinary insights of science fiction writer Robert Heinlein in anticipating the technologies and shifts ahead

First developed by Canada’s indigenous peoples, spruce beer was commonly used to prevent scurvy, even by French navigator Jacques Cartier. Today, it continues to have a following.

The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

Emergence is the story of natural laws and processes, their inherent beauty, and their action to yield the universe, us and the world we live in.

Two days ago, we updated our system for applying location information to comply with U.S. trade embargoes and economic sanctions regulations. Soon after updating, we discovered that we made a series of mistakes and inadvertently deactivated a number of accounts…

The Mersenne prime was discovered by a computer in Ocala, Fla., on Dec. 7. Mathematicians have spent the past two weeks verifying the calculations.

I’ve been heads-down for the last month or so working on a new spline, and now I’m excited to show it to the world. It is a continuation of the Spiro work I did for my PhD thesis, and solves most of the problems that held that back from wider popularity.

In this blog post, we’ll make a brief introduction to what Bazel is and how we can build our TypeScript projects with it. If you’re already familiar with the problems that Bazel solves, feel free to skip to the section “Building TypeScript with Bazel.” You…

Presented December 4th 2018 by Prof. Michael Levin (Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University)

Michael Levin
Vannevar Bush Professor
Director, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts
Director, Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology
Morphological…

Facebook and Cloudflare are piloting DNS over TLS to better understand how the protocol behaves in a production workload.

If you don't know about QUIC, go read the excellent Cloudflare post about it. If you're lazy, just think about it as:

Google wanted to improve TCP (2.0™️)
but TCP can't really be changed
so they built it on top of UDP (which is just IP with ports, check…

Hongjin Tan allegedly downloaded confidential files to a flash drive, relating to a proprietary product worth US$1 billion But an FBI agent said that when Tan’s suspicious US employer inspected the drive, it found the confidential files had been deleted…

A man and a woman are being questioned as inquiries continue into drone use that grounded flights.

An alternative to REST and GraphQL. Contribute to vasilakisfil/Introspected-REST development by creating an account on GitHub.

The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.