Animals living alongside humans have multiple copies of the gene for alpha-amylase, the enzyme that breaks down starchy foods, and high levels of this protein in their saliva.

It is going to cover censorship and sanctions. Read in Russian.

Far from the land of helicopter parenting, getting ‘dropped’ in the forest is a beloved scouting tradition.

A team of researchers led by the Yale School of Public Health has found that the Lyme disease bacterium is ancient in North America, circulating silently in forests for at least 60,000 years—long before the disease was first described in Lyme, Connecticut…

Swap vs no swap. With enough RAM available, is it better to remove swap space? Find out the performance benefits of swap space.

Tesla’s attacks on whistleblowers and critics aren’t stopping more from coming forward with new allegations.

If you go out and buy a computer right now, how many choices do you really have? Generally speaking, there’s PC or Mac. If we were being generous you could consider Chromebook and perhaps eve…

Google offers various AI-powered programs, training, and tools to help advance your skills. Develop AI skills and view available resources.

And solved a twelve years old Outlook mystery along the way.

Written by the man who did it

The previous post described [motherboards and the memory map] memory-map in Intel computers to set the scene for the initial phases of boot. Booting is an involved, hacky, multi-stage affair - fun st

Protesters in Hong Kong are getting attacked by masked thugs. Terrifying footage => https://t.co/dsLacbxToz

In China, the world’s largest smartphone market with over 800 million users, a unique type of farm springs up in urban areas. The only crops there are smartphones.

RethinkDB and sustainable business models Three weeks ago, I spent the evening of Sept 12, 2016 with Daniel Mewes, who is the lead enginee...

Interactive periodic table showing names, electrons, and oxidation states. Visualize trends, 3D orbitals, isotopes, and mix compounds. Fully denoscriptive writeups.

I started going on Hacker News (HN) around 2012, I was immediately hooked by the daily high quality links covering a wide variety of topics. I would check it out in the morning, CMD + Click all of the noscripts that took my fancy and would read the articles…