Originally designed as a decentralized ecosystem, the Web has undergone a significant centralization in recent years. In order to regain control over our digital self, over the digital aspects of our lives, we need to understand how we arrived at this point…

Last month, I published a post discussing the mountains of abandoned Bird Scooters piling up in city impound lots, and the rise of $30 Chinese conversion kits that let you buy a scooter at auction,…

Often aided and inspired by social media, an increasing number of young Saudi women are taking enormous gambles to escape the country, rights groups say.

I've previously said Google's Project Fi was the best international phone plan. Recent experiences have me withdrawing that endorsement.

An open source Lora-based farm sensing and actuation network.

Power rules ensure lasers are safe for human eyes—but not necessarily for cameras.

The Chromecast Audio is no more. Google has decided to stop manufacturing the audio dongle that allowed you to add any “dumb” speaker to your Google Cast setup. If you still want one, you’ll have to hurry — and to entice you to buy a discontinued product…

In January 2038, the 32-bit time_t value used on many Unix-like
systems will run out of bits and be unable to represent the current time.
This may seem like a distant problem, but, as Tom Scott recently observed,
the year-2038 apocalypse is now closer to…

By Sachin Malhotra If you look at the above screenshot closely, you’ll find two important pieces of information: This machine has 2.38 million TCP connections established, and The amount of RAM being used is around 48 Gigabytes. Pretty awesome righ...

Learn to build and customize crypto trading bots with advanced algorithms, machine learning, and real-time analysis to automate and optimize your trading strategies effectively.

Clever trick allows attackers to obtain valid TLS certificate for hijacked domains.

SpaceX, citing a need to get “leaner,” said Friday it will lay off about 10% of its roughly 6,000 employees.

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced its membership of the RISC-V Foundation at the Silver Member tier, offering support for the instruction set

A biography published 100 years after the composer’s death reveals the worldly trials of an artist known for his airy fantasies.

This visualization of related subreddits helps you find related subreddits

Video that explains the rendering equation, a famous equation in Computer Graphics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_equation

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This post introduces Transactional Pipelining which dramatically speeds up distributed transactions with respect to the latency cost of distributed consensus.