Once local and irregular, time-keeping became universal and linear in 311 BCE. History would never be the same again

"Form of dementia that 'mimics' Alzheimer's symptoms discovered," reports The Guardian. An international team of researchers has proposed a name for a type of brain disease that causes dementia symptoms: Limbic-predominant Age-related TDP-43 Encephalopathy…

When my son Sam,* who was then 14, asked me to take him to the Mother of All Rallies on the Mall in September 2017, I said no. The pro-Trump event was billed as a demonstration to preserve “traditional American culture,” and white supremacists were expected…

There are “dream kitchens,” and then there’s the Frankfurt Kitchen, designed by architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in 1926.

Is the traditional 2D imaging model nearing the end of its usefulness, or does it have a shiny future in the “modern graphics” world? I spent a week on a research retreat in a cottage in the woods to answer this question, as it shapes the future of UI toolkits.…

Convert your ascii diagram scribbles into happy little SVG - ivanceras/noscriptbob

Denver is poised to become the first city in the nation to effectively decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms after final ballot-counting flipped Initiative 301’s margin in favor of narrow passa…

The Gestapo spy Paul Reckzeh denounced a group of Nazi critics in Berlin and two of them were executed. Irmgard Ruppel was the last survivor of the group, and in an interview five decades later, she told the story of what happened.

In a novel melding of physical and cybercrime, hackers, thieves, and even independent repair companies are finding ways to "unlock iCloud" from iPhones.

Human Pose estimation is an important problem and has enjoyed the attention of the Computer Vision community for the past few decades. It is an important step towards understanding people in images and videos. In this post, I write about the basics of Human…

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Amazon’s Customer Obsession leadership principle says: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers. Starting from the customer…

Update (September 23, 2020) – Over the last year, we’ve heard feedback from many customers who have asked us to extend the deprecation date. Based on this feedback we have decided to delay the deprecation of path-style URLs to ensure that customers have the…

The idea of "inheritance" is something that most students learn about early
on when they are studying object-oriented programming (OOP). But one of
the seminal books about OOP recommends favoring "composition" over
inheritance. Ariel Ortiz came to PyCon…

To combat the exodus of its working and middle classes, the city needs an aggressive affordable housing strategy—and fast.

Recently several newspapers [CNA] [France24] [Guardian] [MEM] [HuffPostMG] have reported a story about a United Nations (UN) expert being arrested in Tunisia for having an RTL-SDR dongle. Dr. Moncef Kartas is a member of a UN panel of experts investigating…

An accelerator unit improves both the performance and efficiency of a system by taking over one simple task

Algorithms that take down “terrorist” videos could hamstring efforts to bring human-rights abusers to justice.