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...

The German state of Hesse has ruled it's illegal for its schools to use Microsoft's Windows 10 and Office 365 citing "privacy concerns."

Have you ever tried restricting yourself from using certain tools when doing something creative? For example, when I was studying musical composition my teacher once tasked me to compose a song with only 4...

EU's Galileo global navigation satellite system nears 100 hours of downtime.

Last week I read an article about CRISPR, the latest tool scientists are using to edit DNA. It was a great piece – well researched, beautifully written, factually accurate. It covered some of the amazing projects scientist are working on using CRISPR, like…

Decision fuels speculation that troubled plane will be rebranded once it is given all clear to fly

A History of Alice and Bob, by Quinn DuPont and Alana Cattapan (created 2017).

Polanyi's paradox, named in honour of the British-Hungarian philosopher Michael Polanyi, is the theory that human knowledge of how the world functions and capability are, to a large extent, beyond our explicit understanding. The theory was articulated by…

I never really wanted Amazon Prime, but it took me two years to cancel.

The first step to AI - data democratisation

Tldr; You probably shouldn’t be citing the "No Free Lunch" Theorem by Wolpert . If you’ve cited it somewhere, you might have used it to sup...

The moon landing was one of the most important moments in the history of computing, laying the foundations for everything from fly-by-wire cockpits to the smartphones in our hands.