Research by: Eyal Itkin TL;DR Cameras. We take them to every important life event, we bring them on our vacations, and we store them in a protective case to keep them safe during transit. Cameras are more than just a tool or toy; we entrust them with our…

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For the past several months, I’ve been immersed in nineteenth century history. Specifically, the history of interchangeability in technology between 1765, when the Système Gribeauval, the fir…

The inventive Greek sculptor, who suspended a poet in midair in 1960, used electromagnetism, light, and sound as raw material.

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Or how to serve half a billion placeholder images a month on a budget.
Lorem Picsum is one of the most popular placeholder sites on the internet. It started as a small side project written in NodeJS five years ago to cover my own needs…

Today is a notable day in French history : The 20th anniversary of the 'attack' on a McDonald's in rural France. Like so many things that happen here, this story managed to be turned into a caricature of the French as it gained international attention. So…

He thought he'd be pranking the DMV with his plate, but it royally backfired.

OpenCensus Web is a tool to trace and monitor the user-perceived performance of your web pages. It can help determine whether or not your web pages are experiencing performance issues that you might otherwise not know how to diagnose.

Google is waging war on the peddling of magical pills and miracle cures by questionable health sites — and Examine.com seems to have been caught in the crossfire.

There’s a lesser known, but equally important, mode of transportation in Southeast Queens.

Why does infrastructure cost so much to build in the U.S.? The fundamental reasons aren’t technical. We’ve structured our postwar economy to use overspending on infrastructure as a way to induce short-term growth.