George Wilson stepped out into the medieval-walled prison yard and began to walk. He was 47 years old, beaten-down, and half-starved. His squat frame and stubby legs hardly suggested athletic excellence. But Wilson was well-known as a perambulator, a peregrinator…

When I visited Singapore a few years ago, I kept noticing novel bits of social technology that managed to solve problems that I didn’t ev...

They can transform an economy. But they are only as robust as the data underlying them

  To our partners: Over the last several days, we’ve heard from many of you about changes we were planning to make regarding benefits included with gold and silver competencies, and those in the Microsoft Action Pack. These included benefits related to internal…

An inquiry into how young people are hanging out on the internet.

EspressoBin-based personal router with ad blocking - arturgs/espresso-hole

⚡️ A dev tool for microservice developers to run local applications and/or forward others from/to Kubernetes SSH or TCP - eko/monday

Mechanical Turk offers workers the freedom to complete menial tasks for small sums of cash. But is the platform really a viable part-time hustle?

The official website of 1x Engineers around the world.

Back in 2014, I set up a rather silly Twitter account – @OxfordSolarLive. The premise was simple. A camera took a photo of the sky above my house. It took a reading from my solar panels to se…

The I-Team uncovered the DMV makes millions by selling Florida drivers personal information to outside companies.

The note - once called the currency of corrupt elites - gets a makeover with the image of a computer pioneer.

Fear is a line in your head,” my dear friend Sabeen Mahmud used to say. “You have to decide which side you want to be on.” Mahmud paid the maximum price for her fearlessness. In 2015, she organized a public discussion in Karachi about the disappearances of…

I’ve worked with more than one “10x” programmer. Their brilliance is astonishing, but their output is rarely practically realized. 1

I’ve often said that Java’s original sin was not being a pure object oriented language - a language where everything is an object. As one e...