As Taschen republishes Sebastião Salgado’s classic reportage from the Serra Pelada gold mine, a former Magnum director recalls the day it first landed on his desk

The Internet has gotten too big.

Growing up, I, like many computery people of my generation, was an idealist.
I believed that better, faste...

And we’re back! As we mentioned in the first part of our blog post series, Instagram Server is a Python monolith with several million…

In computer programming, it’s common to split your program into multiple different threads that run simultaneously, as this often simplifies application design.

BLUF is a military communications acronym—it stands for “bottom line up front”—that’s designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.

In a DER SPIEGEL interview, whistleblower Edward Snowden talks about how he managed to mislead the most powerful intelligence agency in the world, about his life in Russia and about why the internet must be reinvented.

Simple processes can make wood tough, impact-resistant—or even transparent

This is yet another example of in-your-face medical pricing that often reflects not what things really cost but what healthcare businesses think they can get away with.

In a court filing, the state attorney general’s office says that it has found new account transfers by members of the family that owns Purdue Pharma, the maker of opioids.

Lessons learned scaling Kubernetes cluster

I replayed Warcraft III recently and was looking for other games I could play in the same genre. Turns out that outside of StarCraft 2, there are no recent games that are anywhere near as good. Wha…

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is interested in gathering information on patent-related issues regarding artificial intelligence inventions for purposes of evaluating whether further examination guidance is needed to promote the reliability…

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Finally, a more comfortable alternative to flying. Fall asleep in San Francisco and wake up in Los Angeles (and vice versa) with Cabin's first-of-its-kind overnight travel experience.

How savage exclusion tears the social fabric.

Personal like or dislike of EV aside for a moment, we can all agree on what the
name of EV certs implies. Organisations get their company details in the
certificate and CAs have to do some extended validation of that data compared to
a normal certificate.…

Finding could have implications for farming - as worms are vital part of farmland ecosystem

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One writer, in his 50s, has applied to more than 100 jobs. And a second has had it up to her silver bob with younger colleagues’ condescension.