What sort of typing instruction manual includes a practice sentence like, “Better a terrible end than terror without end?” Better yet, what kind of typing manual offers, also as practice texts, excerpts from Pirke Avot, stories from the Talmud, quotes by…

Even a single workout may make our brain’s memory centers, like our muscles, more fit.

Git commits as an esoteric programming language

Geostationary satellites maintain their position relative to earth. This means a parabolic dish can be pointed at the satellite and receive continuous downloads.

Boeing Co. limited the role of its own pilots in the final stages of developing the 737 MAX flight-control system implicated in two fatal crashes, departing...

Today Eclipse Foundation’s president Mike Milinkovic blogged about the final result of the confidential trademark negotiations between Oracle and the Eclipse Foundation. As we remember, Oracl…

Manifold is a Java compiler plugin, its features include Metaprogramming, Properties, Extension Methods, Operator Overloading, Templates, a Preprocessor, and more. - manifold-systems/manifold

It is unlikely we can tell you anything new about the extended Berkeley Packet Filter, eBPF for short, if you've read all the great man pages, docs, guides, and some of our blogs out there. But we can tell you a war story, who doesn't like those?

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Physical workspaces inspire a fast, fluid digital tool for creative thinking.

Although deep learning has historical roots going back decades, neither the term "deep learning" nor the approach was popular just over five years ago, when the field was reignited by papers such...

A high-level overview of LLVM IR, showing how two simple Go functions can be translated to IR.

Free language learning apps often promise the world — but don’t expect fluency from one. Here’s what to expect before you sign up.

In sophisticated night heists, thieves are stealing thousands of bees. Why?

There are things about the recent implosion of The Markup that make it unique—in particular, that it raised $23 million with nothing but a trio of co-founders and a brief denoscription of the product they wanted to create. A launch like that places enormous…

The head of the World Health Organization on battling Ebola in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.