Compatibility of FreeBSD on a Lenovo Thinkpad T480, notes and fixes (HiDPI, Trackpad, camera, etc).

Paul Graham, essayist, programmer and partner in the y-combinator talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about start-ups, innovation, and creativity. Graham draws on his experience as entrepreneur and investor to discuss the current state of the start-up world…

Greta Thunberg’s zero-carbon Atlantic crossing is not an option for most. But it might be in years to come, if experiments with hydrogen, solar and batteries pay off

We have warned you about the destruction of our lands. You must listen before it is too late, says Raoni Metuktire, chief of the indigenous Brazilian Kayapó people

Pretrained Pytorch face detection (MTCNN) and facial recognition (InceptionResnet) models - timesler/facenet-pytorch

Mesh networking: how you communicate when China censors the internet.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing inputs using a neural network system that includes a batch normalization layer. One of the methods includes receiving a respective first layer output…

The Atlantic recently had an excellent article warning that The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials. The author is absolutely correct. Millennials are in for a tough time as they have little to no savings. However, boomers are unlikely to fare very well…

Internet shutdowns have become one of the defining tools of government repression in the 21st century — but citizens bear the cost at work and at home.

If you are running @FirefoxNightly on MacOS you will see a huge decrease of its power usage by a factor of about 3x, e.g when loading web pages! It's all about making use of CoreAnimation for rendering now. There is more to come... So don't forget to get…

The accounts were purchased because of their large follower count, and then used to spam Twitter with information about the Hong Kong protests.

Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.

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Discussing the state of security…

DeepFaceLab is the leading software for creating deepfakes. - iperov/DeepFaceLab

From ancient Rome to modern Atlanta, the shape of cities has been defined by the technologies that allow commuters to get to work in about 30 minutes.