For decades, canneries around San Jose’s Diridon Station processed the fruits of the fertile “Valley of Heart’s Delight,” now known as Silicon Valley. Opened in 1935, what was then called Cahill Depot was a rail depot for the Southern Pacific Railroad. The…

The authors of an much-ballyhooed 2017 paper about the spread of fake news on social media have retracted their article after finding that they’d botched their analysis. The paper, “Limited individ…

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AWS launched DocumentDB today, a new database offering that is compatible with the MongoDB API. The company describes DocumentDB as a “fast, scalable, and highly available document database that is designed to be compatible with your existing MongoDB applications…

From Markdown to PDF via HTML and CSS.

In many parts of America, like Corinth, Miss., judges are locking up defendants who can’t pay — sometimes for months at a time.

Hi fellow Elmers, IBM has just released Decision Composer, a free and limited offering of our Operational Decision Management (ODM - ex ILOG JRules) product. A good portion of the front end is written in Elm, so I thought I’d share the link here, and post…

Nature Medicine - Analysis of electrocardiograms using an end-to-end deep learning approach can detect and classify cardiac arrhythmia with high accuracy, similar to that of cardiologists.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of a close neighbour of the Milky Way — the Triangulum Galaxy, a spiral galaxy located at a distance of only three million light-years. This panoramic survey of the third-largest…

Susan Greenhalgh investigates how, faced with shrinking Western markets, the soft drink giant sought to secure sales and build its image in China

Ever since 2001, when the US surgeon general called on all Americans to fight the newly named epidemic of obesity…

Sometimes the best hacks come from the most basic of questions. In this case, [CNLohr] was wondering what would happen if he started to reduce the clock speed of the ESP8266’s Baseband PLL (B…

And why I stopped listening to growth hackers.

Posted by Marshall Vale, Product Manager and Puneet Sood, Software Engineer Google Public DNS is the world’s largest public Domain Name Se...

In October 2018, we won a Robotics Innovation Award from Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which is run by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). Then a month later they took it back. The CTA contacted us and said they were disqualifying our product and…

With At the Gates now only two weeks away from release I’ve had a lot of time to look back at its development, as well as my own. It’s not news to anyone that AtG took much, much longer…

This is part of the opening monologue of the Ozark series and when I first heard it, I immediately stopped the show and dropped it into this blog post. It's a post that has been many years coming, one I started drafting about 5 years ago. One I kept dropping…

The richest families in Florence, Italy have had it good for a while—600 years to be precise.

Scientists at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research are part of the CHIME team that has discovered 13 fast radio bursts (FRBs), as well as the second repeating FRB ever recorded, using a revolutionary radio telescope.