We recently rolled out a new version of Slack on the desktop, and one of its headlining features is a faster boot time. In this post, we’ll take a look back at our quest to get Slack running quickly, so you can get to work. The rewrite began as a prototype…

The World Health Organization blames misinformation for the global resurgence of the disease.

Traditionally, ‘Schrebergärten’ were considered the domain of the old and narrow-minded. But green-thumbed youth are reversing this stigma as demand surges for city allotments.

The Go module mirror and checksum database provide faster, verified downloads of your Go dependencies.

JavaScript community's negative reaction to recent experiment kills potential avenue for funding open-source projects.

The largest ever known attack against iPhone users lasted at least two years and hit potentially thousands of people, according to research published by Google.  The malware could ransack the entire iPhone to steal passwords, encrypted messages, location…

When you’re already drained and depleted, it’s tough to figure out how to tackle burnout. Here are six science-backed strategies to bounce back.

Look back at the problem-plagued unveiling that some park employees dubbed “Black Sunday.”

Longan Nano is a development board based on GD32VF103CBT6 MCU with RISC-V 32-bit core of GigaDevice. Longan Nano sold by Seeed comes with a 0.96inch 160x80 IPS RGB LCD and an acrylic transparent case.

A material made of hydrogen, lithium and magnesium and squeezed to high pressures may be a superconductor even at especially high temperatures.

Americans throw out a lot more food than they expect they will, food waste that is likely driven in part by ambiguous date labels on packages, a new study has found.

“People eat a lot less of their refrigerated food than they expect to, and they’re likely…

Google issued a warning about sites that lease out its own subdomains and subfolders so that other companies can rank their content better on leased domains. Well, now it seems Google is taking actio

PornWikiLeaks was a forum devoted to revealing the names and personal information of porn performers, including several in the Girls Do Porn trial.

The crash of two Boeing 737 Max jets in the course of just months has created an existential crisis for the company. Were the 346 who died in Indonesia and Ethiopia the victims of shortcuts and cutthroat competition in the aviation industry? By DER SPIEGEL…

Everything you could ever want to know about the Boeing 737 unpaved strip modification.

Modern web applications load and execute a lot more JavaScript code than they did just a few years ago. While JIT (just-in-time) compilers have been very successful in making JavaScript ...

Running processes in isolated network namespaces

A neuroscientist’s studies show that altruism isn’t always attractive.

Facebook scans system libraries from their Android app user’s phone in the background and uploads them to their server

This is called "Global Library Collector" at Facebook, known as "GLC" in app’s code

It periodically uploads metadata of system libraries…