Minority underrepresentation in the high-tech industry is nothing new. My father was the first black software engineer at IBM, which has a long history with racism.

A former code developer at a software company deleted his code from its systems after finding out about its alleged ties to ICE.

A set of troubling charts shows how little progress nations have made toward limiting greenhouse-gas emissions.

> This is a discussion of [four common mistakes](#four-rules) that audio developers make, [how to do better](#solutions), and [how to detect whether there’s a problem](#diagnosis). It&#821…

John Antioco's arrogance in September 2000 cost Blockbuster its future.

Seth Vargo wrote code used in a platform called Chef. When he learned ICE was a customer, he wrestled with ICE using code he had personally written.

We are restoring a vintage 1 computer that CuriousMarc recently obtained. Analog computers were formerly popular for fast scientific compu...

The image shows armed CIA operatives guarding $3M in cash that is stowed away inside a Russian-built Mi-17 helicopter.

Snippets 2, Episode 22

Swift 5.1 has now been officially released, and despite being a minor release, it contains a substantial number of changes and improvements. This week, let’s take a look at five of those features, and what kind of situations they could be useful in.

Background: There are few studies devoted to assessing the impact of meditation-intensive retreats on the well-being, positive psychology, and personality of experienced meditators. We aimed to assess whether a 1-month Vipassana retreat: (a) would increase…

Former researchers for a “food computer” initiative at the lab say the project’s leader misled outsiders about how it was going.