UK-based film and photo paper manufacturer ILFORD Photo has released a new short film noscriptd “Behind the Film” that takes you inside the HARMAN technology factory in the village of Mobberley, England, where all of the ILFORD and Kentmere B&W film, photographic…

Artist creates maps that reveal the difference in how cities are perceived by tourists and locals.

I go by "edent" on most websites. It's short, relates to my real name, and is usually unique. I quite often sign up to things just to snag the name. But there have been a couple of sites where someone else has got there first and started using "my" name.…

For years, fraudsters have been getting away with tricking Google into pushing them higher up on the search result pages than they deserve to be. We’ll look at a PBN example, and explore if search engines can do anything about them.

The firm's plan to launch a censored search engine in China had faced much criticism.

The vertical scrolling effect in the original “The Legend of Zelda” relies on manipulating the NES graphics hardware in a manner that was likely unintended by its designers. Since I don’t have access to any official documentation for the NES Picture Processing…

Ford and other companies say the industry overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles, which still struggle to anticipate what other drivers and pedestrians will do.

Amazon’s data-collection is being put under the microscope

Becoming an astronaut ranked last among five professions.

Imagine if everyone spoke a language you don’t understand. People have been speaking it around you since the day you were born, but while everyone else picks it up immediately, for you it means nothing. Others become frustrated with you. Friendships and jobs…

Our increasingly aggressive modern
compilers produce increasingly surprising code optimizations. Some of
these optimizations might be especially surprising to developers who assume
that each plain C-language load or store will always result in an
assembly…

Fossils are the most reliable way we can piece together the history of humans, but some clues have been inside us all along. The human genome can tell us where we've come from, and it's hiding more than a few surprises. Now researchers from the University…

Mobile network operators (also: telephone companies, telcos, providers) sometimes offer low cost data packages that are usable only on the phone. Or so, they say.

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Starting in Firefox 70, Mozilla aims to have the browser report when any of your saved logins were found in data breaches. This will be done through their partnership with the Have I Been Pwned data breach site.

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Watching a couple hours of TV a day can have major effects on your brain. So what would happen if you quit cold turkey?