As we mark World Press Freedom Day, our international editor asks each of us to imagine what would happen around the world if journalists, and the public, were not watching.

Introduction Kubernetes is a highly popular container management platform. If you have just heard about it but didn’t have a chance to play with it then this post might help you to get started.
In this guide, we will create a single-node kubernetes cluster…

Nature - Stuart Kauffman’s provocative take on emergence and evolution energizes Sara Imari Walker.

Our hero, a mathematician, is writing notes in LaTeX and needs to convert it to a format that her blog platform accepts. She’s used to using dollar sign delimiters for math mode, but her blog requires \( \) and \[ \] . Find-and-replace fails because it doesn’t…

Whenever I log on to Instagram, my heart drops a little. After years of living the lifestyle and covering the subject, fitness influencer behavior shouldn’t...

For decades, database systems have given their users multiple isolation levels to choose from, ranging from some flavor of “serializability” at the high end down to “read committed” or “read uncommitted” at the low end.

When a secretive private equity firm bought Remington, sales were strong and the future bright. A decade later, the company couldn’t escape its debts.

You’ve probably played with model trains, for instance with something like the Brio set shown below.1 And if you’ve built a layout with a model train set, yo...

An oral history of the subnoscription service that changed online shopping forever.

This report presents new evidence about the surveillance state in Xinjiang, where the government has subjected 13 million Turkic Muslims to heightened repression as part of its “Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism.” Between January 2018 and February…

Indigo is expanding to the United States with its new model for how a big bookstore chain can thrive in the era of online retail.

Nigerian teenager Hope Emmanuel Frank makes his creations using discarded materials.

Tumblr owner Verizon seeks buyer months after banning adult content.

Back when the members of the Spec Land Yacht Brain Trust were discussing our planned race series over fermented beverages, the topic of conversation veered into what we regarded as the Holy Grail of pointless-yet-awe-inspiring 1980s car accessories: the in…

Probability theory shows impressive results

What the world will be like when computational intelligence and computational contracts are ubiquitous. Trannoscript of a talk by Stephen Wolfram from a 2019 blockchain conference.