Tuesday afternoon, a contingent of Kickstarter employees went public with their intention to unionize under the name Kickstarter United. According to an email provided to Gizmodo, however, senior staffers at the crowdfunding company are already attempting…

Researchers encode the word “hello” in fabricated DNA, convert it back to digital using fully automated DNA storage system.

An exceptionally fast, thorough and tiny unused-CSS cleaner - leeoniya/dropcss

you're invited to a data party! Contribute to qri-io/qri development by creating an account on GitHub.

3D LEGO models and mosaics from images using R and #tidyverse - ryantimpe/brickr

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OPERABLE ERLANG AND ELIXIR
by Fred Hebert

THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS:
Debugging
Complexity
Resilience

TALK LEVEL: Intermediate…

Europol is asking the public to help trace locations in photos linked to child sexual abuse.

American landlords derive more profit from renters in low-income neighborhoods, researchers Matthew Desmond and Nathan Wilmers find.

Italy is the first G7 country to sign up to China's global investment programme, despite Western concerns.

Dan Spitz, former lead guitarist for thrash metal band Anthrax, has sold more than 15 million albums, been nominated for 3 Grammy’s, created over 10 studio albums – and now he is recognized as one of the best watchmakers in the world. HODINKEE speaks with…

A look at the diversity of tones in PMR transmissions, and my home listening station. Melody detection, CTCSS, DCS, STE.

Calculating the mean of a list of numbers Consider the following problem:

You have a list of floating point numbers. No nasty tricks - these
aren’t NaN or Infinity, just normal “simple” floating point numbers.

Now: Calculate the mean (average). Can you…

Hi, I'm Darius Kazemi and I'm CS&S's Mozilla Fellow. Here are some of the things that I've been researching, building, and planning around the decentralized internet.