Cory Doctorow on how the copyright wars clue us into an upcoming fight over the destiny of the general-purpose computer.

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A new analysis finds that liberalizing zoning rules and building more won’t solve the urban affordability crisis, and could exacerbate it.  

Voters will be asked to raise corporate taxes.

A project to create unencumbered open-source ROMs for use on selected retro computers - MEGA65/open-roms

Over the last few years the number of people and businesses online has ballooned. Spend on the Internet has grown rapidly as you can now reach billions of people, and hundreds of millions of businesses, in a frictionless way. While in the late 1990s people…

"We were given a gift — this nearby body called the moon," Bezos said, adding that it is a good place to begin manufacturing in space.

This is a huge release. We should take the time to thank every contributor
to the JuliaDiffEq package ecosystem. A lot of this release focuses on performance
features. The ability to use stiff ODE solvers on the GPU, with automated
tooling for matrix-free…

But the ex-US intelligence analyst may be held again over her refusal to testify in a Wikileaks probe.

AG investigation found some school supplies with more than 80 times legal limit of lead SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that Amazon will commit to nationwide corporate reforms after his office’s investigation found dozens of children’s…

This is the consequence of information overflow

Is the Wolfram Language a computer programming language? Stephen Wolfram explains why it is, rather, a computational language--a way to communicate computational ideas.

It’s clear that this year’s WWDC is going to be a doozy. We’ve written here previously with our thoughts about Dark Mode, now it’s time to talk about iOS apps coming to the Mac. Of course I’m talking about Marzipan, a technology Apple introduced with few…