The BBC gets rare access to facilities in Xinjiang thought to be holding more than a million Muslims.

Today we are thrilled to announce the initial OSS preview release of Envoy Mobile, an iOS and Android client network library that brings…

Beijing's US Treasury reserves dip for two consecutive months

Over on YouTube Curious Droid has uploaded an interesting video that attempts to explain the purpose of the HAARP transmitter project. The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program based in Alaska. It consists…

Abstract. This essay reconstructs a missing link in Frantz Fanon’s life and death. Based on an encounter with Fanon’s CIA handler, C. Oliver Iselin, it presents

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Following news from earlier this month that FedEx was dumping Amazon from its air cargo service, Amazon this morning announced the expansion of its own air delivery network, Amazon Air. The retailer says it’s leasing an additional 15 Boeing 737-800 cargo…

Redis is known as one of the fastest databases out there. But what if some of the limitations were removed, how fast could a stand-alone instance become? We often hear that Redis will likely become network bound or memory bound before it is CPU bound on performance…

For years, it was the largest portal for sex on the internet. Now its fate could shape the future of Silicon Valley.

LONDON (Reuters) - Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than scientists had feared.

It’s been 15 years since I’ve written a book. I got tired of all the ennoscriptment — “You should give me your book for free waaaaah…” What…

Security Bulletins that relate to Netflix Open Source - Netflix/security-bulletins

Sketching ReasonML/OCaml code with inline evaluation results

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the German design school Bauhaus, we published a story at The New York Times featuring some of its buildings outside Europe. Designed by Rebecca Lieberman, Eden Weingart and I, it featured a small detail for the design…

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The state would pledge to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, with all its electricity coming from carbon-free sources.