Multiprocessors with relaxed memory models can be very confusing. Writes can be seen out of order, reads can be speculative and return values from the future–what a mess! In order to impose s…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed a data breach has exposed the photos of travelers and vehicles traveling in and out of the United States. The photos were transferred to a subcontractor’s network and later stolen through a “malicious cyberattack…

The chief scientist at RStudio and developer of open source tools for data scientists on bribes, bears and where your next story is hiding.

Reproducibility is an essential requirement for many fields of research including those based on machine learning techniques. However, many machine learning publications are either not reproducible or are difficult to reproduce. With the continued growth…

May was another amazing month for the AV1 codec! We saw great progress in the SVT-AV1 encoder, Android update news and some surprising news out of China!
SVT-AV1 is making strides! Let’s start with SVT-AV1 encoder, the current encoder of choice for Netflix…

How do you design good abstractions? By using abstractions that already exist.

volcanic eruption in southwest Pacific

NASA’s trip to the Moon’s surface in July 1969 was preceded by a lot of preparatory missions — including Apollo 10, which involved a mock mission with everything but the actual landing. Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan flew a lunar module, nicknamed…

Owning nothing is now a luxury, thanks to a number of subnoscription start-ups.

Editor's Note: With Zen 2 set to launch tomorrow (7/7), here's our architecture analysis from last month for some timely background information.

We're giving away a number of Storage Pods that have reached their end of service. You can have one or more, but you must pick them up in person between 10am and 5pm on Friday, June 28.

The design of Unicode illustrated with the ICU4C API

Amazon's surprising decision to shutter its restaurant delivery business in the U.S. is a rare retreat from the e-commerce behemoth. The company was battling competitors such as Uber, Grubhub, and DoorDash in a fierce food delivery market. The move comes…

An open-source creative-coding framework for Rust

When people bring their own devices to work or school, they don’t want IT administrators to manage the entire device. But until now, Apple only offered two ways for IT to manage its iOS devices: either device enrollments, which offered device-wide management…