One of the advantages of the quantum revolution is the ability to sense the world in a new way. The general idea is to use the special properties of quantum mechanics to make measurements or produce images that are otherwise impossible. Much of this work…

After years of tackling numerous design and manufacturing challenges, MIT researchers have built a modern microprocessor from carbon nanotube transistors, which are widely seen as a faster, greener alternative ...

Analysis noscripts of things related to satellites. Contribute to cbassa/satellite_analysis development by creating an account on GitHub.

A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers - littlefs-project/littlefs

economic effect that real income ratios between high and low income countries are systematically exaggerated by GDP conversion at market exchange rates

Symlinks (symbolic links), aliases, shortcuts, junction points, resource forks, and networked folders can be used in the Dropbox folder on your computer to reference other files in the Dropbox folder on your computer.

SAT is often described as the "mother of all NP-complete problems." This post goes over what SAT is and why it is considered to be so important. A simple SAT solver is implemented using Python in the process. Coding, mathematics, and problem solving by Sahand…

etcd 3.4 focuses on stability, performance and ease of operation, with features like pre-vote and non-voting member and improvements to storage backend and client balancer.
Please see CHANGELOG for full lists of changes.
Better Storage Backend etcd v3.4 includes…

Headquarters of the Internet Archive, home of the Decentralized Web conferences (Wikimedia Commons).

Key lessons for designing static analysis tools deployed to find bugs in hundreds of millions of lines of code.

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…

Data visualisation in Python based on NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing framework. - rnd-team-dev/plotoptix

Apple says future versions of macOS won’t include a number of open-source noscripting languages. The impact of this change will vary depending on the audience, but it will affect more people than you might think.

The rare, forgotten feeling of knowing that someone else, someone responsible, is taking care of life for you.

[Discuss this article and read other’s comments on the subject on this thread on Hacker News.] The three fundamental building blocks of computers, CPU, I/O and RAM can come under pressure due to co…

We are excited to announce XLOOKUP, Excel's most powerful lookup function and the successor to the iconic VLOOKUP.

I can’t keep track of the number of articles I’ve read about hiring in the past few years. Inevitably, they all follow the exact same format. First, they claim that hiring is broken. Ne…

With the help of Amtrak and Greyhound informants, agents approach people on thin evidence they are drug couriers — and often take their cash.