Algolia, one of the group of startups that provides search as a service for websites and apps as an alternative to Google and other search engines, is

On the 13th June 2019, a rocket launched from Kiruna, Sweden, carrying 280kg of scientific experiments; among them, a Raspberry Pi Zero running Docker containers on balenaOS. To our knowledge this is the first time a Moby/Docker container engine has been…

Wherever you find advocates for saner transportation, their dream scenario usually hinges on the same outcome: making cities blissfully free of cars. To this end, the Spanish city of Pontevedra, population 84,000, has done something remarkable: it has reduced…

The Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index provides the latest estimate of the total energy consumption of the Bitcoin network.

Once a brilliant hue, the pigment verdigris is now mostly brown.

End-to-end Hand Mesh Recovery from a Monocular RGB Image.

PARIS (Reuters) - A Paris zoo showcased a mysterious new organism on Wednesday, dubbed the “blob”, a yellowish unicellular small living being which looks like a fungus but acts like an animal.

Two Kernel Mysteries and The Most Technical Talk I've Ever Seen (Linux Ftrace kernel internals)

Tracking financial transactions at scale

Our brains employ two modes of thinking to tackle any large task: focused and diffuse. Both are equally valuable but serve very different purposes. To do your best work, you need to master both.

"How can it be that two objects, initially traveling in parallel, can continue each moving in a straight line and yet end up meeting one another?" Jake reveals the answer in this interesting thought experiment.

No one knows why we walk. Out of some 250 species of primates, we are the only ones that have elected to get up and move around exclusively on two legs. Some authorities think bipedalism is at leas…

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the latest game from the company behind Pokémon Go, lets players harness the magic of their childhood to combat monsters and

When Marion Conlin gave birth to twins earlier than expected in a Brooklyn hospital in May 1920, one of her babies was already dead. Her doctor bluntly told the woman and her husband, Woolsey,...

Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard set the standard for how a business can mitigate the ravages of capitalism on earth’s environment. At 81 years old, he’s just getting started.

Microsoft today announced two new open-source projects: Dapr, a portable, event-driven runtime that takes some of the complexity out of building