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A company called Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC has filed a
lawsuit [PDF] against the GNOME Foundation, alleging that the Shotwell
photo manager violates patent
9,936,086. Stay tuned, more details will surely emerge.

You may be swallowing billions of tiny plastic particles while sipping a cup of freshly brewed gourmet tea, a new study from McGill University in Montreal suggests.

The primary goal of this site is to help people put victimhood behind them and craft a future of their choosing. "Living well is the best re...

With the digital equivalent of trowels and shovels, archaeologists are digging into the code of early video games to uncover long forgotten secrets that could have relevance today.

“Ultraprocessed” foods seem to trigger neural signals that make us want more and more calories, unlike other foods in the Western diet

Unbabel, a Lisbon-based startup that’s built a platform for translating customer service messages at scale by combining the speed of machine translation with native (human) speaker nuance and expertise, has closed a $60 million Series C round. The investment…

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. agency linking postal systems worldwide on Wednesday agreed to reform its fee structure under a proposal by the United States that averted the Trump administration leaving the global network but may mean many consumers pay more.

Building event-driven applications the easy way in Go. - ThreeDotsLabs/watermill

Uber represents something new: a company that is different than incumbents because of technology, yet not itself a tech company — just like the Venture Fund is not a VC.

The world's largest offshore wind farm is taking shape off the east coast of Britain, a landmark project that demonstrates one way to combat climate change at scale.

Over 1000 themes and starters for Jamstack and static site generators.

We discuss what N+1 queries are, how they are easily produced in GraphQL, and how to solve them using the graphql-batch gem along with a few custom batch loaders.

Family health plans now cost employers and workers $20k a year.

As a rule of thumb business owners should be primarily focused on delighting their customers in any way possible. Every subtle interaction should be closely optimized for customer enchantment, and a decision as simple as where to park your car can subconsciously…

Here is the current list of the 4,266 computer languages I am actively tracking.

Bare chiplets on a silicon-interconnect fabric will make computers smaller and more powerful

An update to Google Chrome damaged the file systems of macOS devices not running the System Integrity Protection security tool.