Nature - Researchers modify microbe to manufacture cannabis compounds including the psychoactive chemical THC.

The idea of this article came from a recent photo series I saw on BoredPanda about viral photos people thought were real but were fake. It reminded me of some of my photos people always call fake. People online judge you really easily. It used to really annoy…

A fragment of a hominin skull adds to the sparse collection from our obscure cousins. Has the hunt for the Denisovans just begun?

Amazon stops selling its Dash buttons because shoppers are using other methods to buy products.

A new study suggests companies that disclose their wages can shrink the gap between what men and women earn by 7 percent. And it makes the workplace more equitable in other ways as well.

Dear executives of United Airlines, I have some advice for you. 1: Fire whoever is in charge of your online security. 2: Burn down the building in which they worked; it may be tainted. 3: Salt the ground so nothing ever grows there again, to be safe. 4: Hire…

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PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. An assortment of microcomputers, minicomputers, terminals, programmable…

The original Pine A64, hailed by many as a “Raspberry Pi killer” during its Kickstarter campaign, shipped to backers back in 2015…

German Data Privacy Commissioner Ulrich Kelber is also a computer scientist, which makes him uniquely qualified to comment on the potential consequences of the proposed new EU Copyright Directive.

Geneticist David Reich discusses DNA findings that show how migration shaped Europe and southern Asia, and that “No population is, or ever could be, pure.”

A company can learn more from people sharing their experiences than from numbers in a spreadsheet

TL;DR version: Last year, I was threatened with a lawsuit over the pixel art album cover for Kind of Bloop. Despite my firm belief that I was legally in the right, I settled out of court to cut my losses. This ordeal was very nerve-wracking for me and my…

My simple Swiss Army knife for http/https troubleshooting and profiling. - trimstray/htrace.sh

Vita: simple and fast VPN gateway. Contribute to inters/vita development by creating an account on GitHub.

Click to enlarge Everyone’s familiar with the smell of old books, the weirdly intoxicating scent that haunts libraries and second-hand book stores. Similarly, who doesn’t enjoy riffling…