SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

In an interview with an antitrust expert Sally Hubbard, we discussed what makes Amazon a monopoly, how that affects consumers, businesses relying on Amazon, and competitors, as well as what actions and regulations antitrust investigations might bring in the…

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YouTube has reportedly removed the account of Soph, a 14-year-old girl with nearly 1 million followers, after she uploaded a video attacking LGBTQ people. 

As someone who pays Google thousands of dollars a month for Google Drive for Business (Gsuite rebrand was moronic), I am very disappointed that an essential

The U.S. Treasury labeled China as a currency manipulator after its central bank let the yuan depreciate, sharply escalating the trade conflict and stoking fears that the widening clash could disrupt America’s economy.

As a result of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, Earth is experiencing many discernable changes, such as melting glaciers, higher global sea levels, and an overall greening of the planet. ...

BALISP, the Bay Area Lisp & Scheme Users Group
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Sat 2 Feb 2019
Hacker Dojo
Santa Clara, CA


Abstract

The MakerLisp Machine is a portable, modular, computer system, designed to recapture the feel of classic computing, with modern hardware.…

Creating barriers to access to e-books, which is what publishers are doing to resist dominance by Amazon, says Jessamyn West, disrupts the public good libraries were created to serve. Public libraries exist in large part because they are necessary to a functioning…

Could the TPS concept revolutionize resin 3D printing? Open source Transparent Polygon Scanning could avoid patents allowing inexpensive resin 3D printers.

‘Spin’, defined as exaggerating the clinical significance of a particular treatment without the statistics to back it up, is discernible in more than half of clinical trial abstracts published in top psychology and psychiatry journals, a review of relevant…

Roblox is big. Bigger than Minecraft big. The massively multiple online noscript has been around since 2006, but the game has been achieving a crazy amount of momentum of late. On Friday, it announced via blog post that it’s grown past 100 million monthly active…

A software attempt to address the "double key press" issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard [not actively maintained] - aahung/Unshaky

The Federal Reserve wants to make paying bills and transferring money easier and faster.

An emergency parachute failure raises questions about the safety of urban delivery drones

… and lessons learnt in IoT security