Jeff Bezos's six-page memos are legendary in the startup world for good reason: clear writing and clear thinking go hand in hand.

Although people ended up happier, the government hoped it would help the unemployed to find work.

Earlier this year we launched Breachroom, a free service that...

Our participants will come from all continents, representing different cultures, languages, and specializations. But together we can create an incredibly strong community where borders are blurred.

A team of scientists has discovered the first robust example of a new type of magnet—one that holds promise for enhancing the performance of data storage technologies.

Despite their “miniature brains,” honeybees can harness both long-term rules and short-term memory in order to solve math problems.

Study finds failure of English language medical journals to comply with international ethical standards

Not all instructions on modern processors cost the same. Additions and subtractions are cheaper than multiplications which are themselves cheaper than divisions. For this reason, compilers frequently replace division instructions by multiplications. Roughly…

How we assembled a RISC-V desktop computer. (video at the bottom of this post.) While it’s clear that the most significant opportunities for RISC-V will

In 1974, Roger Penrose, a British mathematician, created a revolutionary set of tiles that could be used to cover an infinite plane…

Lego used to be a toy for university student David Aguilar, but he has combined that passion with his bioengineering knowledge to create a series of prosthetic limbs.

If you haven’t seen it, you should read this unusually thoughtful and honest account from a founder who built a company that was…

A new transistor based on organic materials has been developed by scientists at LiU. It has the ability to learn, and is equipped with both short-term and long-term memory. The work is a major step to creating technology that mimics the human brain.

Esoteric Programming Language. Contribute to hundredrabbits/Orca development by creating an account on GitHub.

Today I did the opening keynote at SRECon. This talk was a little less technical than my normal talks: instead of talking about tools like tcpdump (though tcpdump makes an appearance!), I wanted to talk about how to make a career where you’re constantly learning…

Who is this “4chan”?

Amazon executives are re-evaluating a planned campus in New York City, people familiar with the matter said, turning up the heat on local officials who have rallied opposition to giving billions of dollars in tax incentives to one of the world’s most valuable…