Maybe you have been reading recently about the release of OpenBSD 6.5 and wonder, 'What are the differences between Linux and OpenBSD?' I've also been there at some point in the past and these are my conclusions. They also apply, to some extent,

Explore global and national data on population growth, demography, and how they are changing.

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Aim to be the most developer-friendly React animation library.

Contents Part One: Making the Samples Part Two: Testing Methods Part Three: Test Results Part Four: Adjusting Promising Candidates for Better Results Part Five: Designing Improved Methods Based on Test Results Part Six: Conclusions Just Take Me to the Best…

The role of variability due to natural ocean cycles in global warming is a long-standing debate in climate science. The scientific community overwhelmingly agrees that human activities are responsible for the observed increase in temperatures for the last…

Grade inflation needs to stop.

We've known for some time that WhatsApp would be getting ads but now we have explicit confirmation that it is coming by 2020 to the 'Status' section.

NASA has some good news, the world is a greener place today than it was 20 years ago. What prompted the change? Well, it appears China and India can take the majority of the credit.

With $60 and a few fake Facebook accounts, researchers were able to identify service members in a military exercise, track their movement, and even persuade them to disobey orders.

Users of Microsoft's new Chromium-based Edge browser are now forced to use Chrome for the modern YouTube experience.

Researchers tested mechanisms linked to nuclear fusion at room temperature — but found no evidence for the phenomenon.

Autonomous machine expected to pick more than 25,000 raspberries a day, outpacing human workers

PHP, as the result of a spectacular error of judgement, appears to be written in US English. How do we developers ensure the traditions of the British Empire continue to be upheld, even in the digital age?

In my previous post I said that the lang team would be making our final decision about the syntax of the await operator in the May 23 meeting. That was last Thursday, and we did reach a decision. In …

My wife and I had 12 children over the course of 15 1/2 years. Today, our oldest is 37 and our youngest is 22.  I have always had a very prosperous job and enough money to give my kids almost anything. But my wife and I decided not to.