I found the lexical distance map fascinating but the closer I studied it the more things bothered me. Thus trawling through the net I found Tishchenko Cyrillic versions. So I sat down this weekend …

Several outlets reviewing Samsung's ground-breaking new folding smartphone have reported major problems with its screen.

Training deep learning models can be tough. They don't work without the right hyperparameters. Here's how you can use algorithms to automate the process.

Money and tech have a complicated relationship. We trained our users to expect things for free. Quickly we realized that wasn’t a sustainable business model, so we sold their data and served …

As the failure of Panera Cares demonstrates—not for the first time—entrepreneurs aren‘t going to solve hunger.

Xubuntu 19.04 “Disco Dingo” is just around the corner. It features numerous updates and an updated snapshot of Xfce 4.14 development.

When it introduced the “51” in 1941, the George S. Parker Company knew it had a winner. The pen was stylish but not flashy, durable but not clunky, and reliable but not overengineered.

Earlier this month, Facebook admitted that it was asking some users who signed up on desktop while using email addresses not supporting the OAuth open standard to give them the passwords to their email accounts—with options to avoid doing so hidden in a “Need…

Hailed by authors from George RR Martin to Neil Gaiman, Wolfe was most known for his magnum opus The Book of the New Sun

US researchers have looked at the most common ones that we may fall for.

IndiaRxiv is the latest of several preprint servers set up to host research from a particular region.

Start innovating your database productivity with SQLGate - Oracle, SQLServer, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, DB2, and Tibero!

A version of this post appeared on Pieria in December 2013.  In my post “ The desert of plenty ”, I described a world in which goo...

Interfaces are a kind of multiple inheritance, which makes method dispatch difficult. Different solutions are discussed, as used e.g. by C++, Java, C#, Go, and Rust.

Do you ever hear those stories from your parents along the lines of "when I was young..." and then there's a tale of how risky life was back then compared to today. You know, stuff like having to walk themselves to school without adult supervision, crazy…