When Google puts 4 paid ads ahead of the first organic result for your own brand name, you’re forced to pay up if you want to be found. It’s a shakedown. It’s ransom. But at least we can have fun with it. Search for Basecamp and you may see this attached…

A browser extension that replaces occurrences of 'serverless' with 'cgi-bin' - ghuntley/serverless-to-cgi-bin

An expert weighs in on the science behind the trick.

Oil's days as a transportation fuel are numbered because the economics of renewable energy are so compelling, says a new report from BNP Paribas. In order to compete, the oil price would need to be $9-$10 a barrel, says the report's author Mark Lewis, the…

Static TypeScript is designed to be useful in practice (especially in education), while being amenable to static compilation targeting small devices.

The block might appeal to users, but is potentially worrying to publishers

SQL window functions allow us to see the rows in a table with a new column showing a running total, rank or moving average.

The question of “What is a tech company” comes down to how much software and its unique characteristics affects the company’s core business.

Two years after Firefox Quantum's release, Mozilla devs said they fixed Firefox's battery-draining problem.

Volunteer-created and crowdsourced, these help protesters and bystanders alike navigate fast-changing and often chaotic situations.

Whole Foods CEO and co-founder John Mackey says while he thinks plant-based meat companies are more "ethical" than regular meat companies, he does not endorse meat alternatives for health due to their "highly processed" ingredients.

A crossword puzzle game using regular expressions. Earn achievements completing puzzle challenges. Easy tutorials for people new to regular expressions.

Chief executive finally agrees to one of protesters’ five demands after weeks of insisting bill would not be withdrawn.

An in-depth analysis of the journey of a Spectre fix into the upstream LTS kernels that left its users with nothing more than a false sense of security.

Cassava is very dangerous if not prepared properly, so how did people develop and share that knowledge?

Criminals use commercially available voice-generating AI software to impersonate the boss of a German company to steal funds.

In 1985, Alexey Pajitnov and Vadim Gerasimov released Tetris to the public. This fun and highly addictive game challenged players to fit...

Amazon AWS had a power failure, their backup generators failed, which killed their EBS serversl, which took all of our data with it. Then it took them four days to figure this out and tell us about it. Reminder: The cloud is just a computer in Reston with…