As the changing climate melts Greenland's ice sheet, the runoff is filling its fjords with immense amounts of sand. Will the world want to buy some?

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Highly extensible platform for developers to better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters. - vmware-archive/octant

An archive of commercial video game source code. Video Game Preservation has 116 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

A billion light years away, a monster star tore itself to shreds. And by that I mean it tore itself to shreds. In general exploding stars — supernovae — leave behind a neutron star or black hole, but

Taming OpenAPI using Racket to create a DSL

Really? Really? I’ve started nine firms and I’m, generously, 3-4-2 (win-lose-tie). In retrospect, and I think about this a lot, the only reliable forward-looking indicator of our firm’s success or failure was … timing. Specifically, the part of the economic…

When the bank closes customers’ accounts, it doesn’t always mean money stops going out. That can leave customers with hefty overdraft charges.

Suzanne Miller, Bill Nichols, Don Firesmith, and Mike Phillips contributed to this post. Today's major defense systems rely heavily on software-enabled capabilities. However, many defense programs acquiring new systems first determine the physical items to…

@_Freakyclown_ Posting it to you is secure, as it's illegal to open someone else's mail. ^JGS

Pro-democracy forces are locked in a cat-and-mouse game with the Chinese government, playing out on the airwaves, the internet and across the globe.

In July, the French daily newspaper Le Monde reported that the 0.6-mile (1 kilometre) solar road was a fiasco.

An interesting new study finds that novice investors are actually better off choosing stocks completely at random instead of making their own decisions.

When São Paulo introduced its Clean City Law (Lei Cidade Limpa) a decade ago, over 15,000 marketing billboards were taken down. An additional 300,000 ostentatious business signs, hanging over streets or painted in large letters on facades, were also subject…

Over the last year or so I have worked on a research linux distribution in my spare time. It’s not a distribution for researchers (like Scientific Linux), but my personal playground project to research linux distribution development, i.e. try out fresh ideas.