On April 1, a telescope dome in Arizona opened to the sky to test the performance of a new assembly of lenses built for a new instrument called DESI.

Just over a quarter century ago, when I was a young scribbler traipsing around the metro desk of the Baltimore Sun, I had an early opportunity to learn a lesson about money, about ethics, about capitalism and, in particular, about the American entertainment…

Linus Torvalds' criticism of social media is strong condemnation from a guy who's famous for his own "not polite" behavior on public email lists.

After years of misdiagnoses, Stephen Hopkins learned that lead in his bones was making him sick. Now he’s calling for the military to increase testing for metal poisoning in troops.

The GNU Unifont project is amazing. It contains every Unicode glyph in one single file! I am going to argue that you should bundle it with your apps, your operating systems, and - at a pinch - your websites. The Unifont is a perfect fallback font. If your…

Four turntables and a 909: Will Lynch talks shop with one of the very best.

Agile software development without all the burnout. - davebs/AgileLite

Regular exercise changes the look and workings of the human heart. And researchers are discovering that different sports affect the heart differently.

Companies using Apache on private, non-shared servers are also at risk, but to a lesser degree.

The policy could change not just traffic, but also how we think about the infrastructure cars require.

Kevin Keiley he feels "flattered" but also "annoyed" at the way his Instagram handle @sussexroyal was taken away.

A pragmatic new design for high-level abstractions Monads (and, more generally, constructs known as “higher kinded types”) are a tool for high-level abstraction in programming languages1. Historically, there has been a lot of debate inside (and outside) the…

By showing us where the people in the world are, cartograms help us understand global living conditions better.

“Tesla continues to struggle as a ‘real car company,’" said one analyst.

Tesla said new-vehicle deliveries in the first quarter fell 31% from the previous three months as the electric car maker strained to ship its Model 3 compact car to Europe and China for the first time. Tesla shares fell about 8%.