Behind the recent wave of 80s revivals are real questions about the types of stories we enjoy—and how they teach us to approach the world

Tame Complexity through Community Involvement Tools Edit: I’d just like to say that I think 2018 has been a great year for rust. Rereading this, I realize may have come off as a little negative. End edit. Rust has a “big” problem. Our feedback loops have…

Firefox 64.0 has been spotted serving a hotel booking ad in the snippet section of its New Tab page. That section is traditionally used to provide updates from Mozilla concerning its services.

At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters – and broke a space exploration record.…

Elizabeth Anderson thinks we’ve misunderstood the basis of a free and fair society.

Fluoroscopes were used in shoe stores from the mid-1920s to 1950s in North America and Europe -- even though the radiation risks of x-rays were well-known.

TL;DR, Even though wages have risen a lot for engineers in fast growing economies like China
or India. From my perspective as a Chinese who’s been working here for many years, Sweden might still be
a very attractive place to work and settle depending on who…

A BIM Workbench for FreeCAD. Contribute to yorikvanhavre/BIM_Workbench development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Internet stopped another copyright extension without firing a shot.

There are plenty of ways to deliver tech jobs to rural communities.

In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart. For example, a study of 43 use cases found a 0% success rate. theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/blo… Let's talk about some mistaken assumptions about decentralization that led to the blockchain hype, and…

What Hannah Arendt can tell us about LinkedIn’s content problem

Articles on computer graphics, math and art

Mozilla has confirmed that a Firefox ad for a Booking.com and Amazon gift card offer on the browser's new tab page was an experiment.