In 1984, the Christian rock band Prodigal hid a Commodore 64 program on their album "Electric Eye". See my attempts to retrieve and run this 35-year-old easter egg. Follow-up video with clarifications and another C64 game hidden on vinyl here: https://yo…

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it launched in 1999.

Back in 2015, I wrote a blog post called Dropbox: the First Dead Decacorn. At the time, it was the most widely shared take I’d ever written. I learned several things from writing this piece, and no…

We're advancing the state-of-the-art in 3D image understanding with Mesh R-CNN, which augments Mask R-CNN, and other, complimentary research projects.

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users across four continents in a hacking spree whose targets included diplomats…

Learn songs by ear by slowing them down.

Why your cell phone’s gone silent: 874 of the state’s cell sites are down. No battery or generator backup. Outage numbers: Marin, 57%; Santa Cruz, 22%; San Mateo, 11%; Contra Costa, 11%; Napa, 19%; Santa Clara, 2% , #PGEshutoff #kindcadefire https://t.co/jGo9KhbrTd…

In order to do its important research, the Green Bank Observatory needs electromagnetic silence. Is that even possible anymore?

After ProPublica sued the IRS, the agency released emails that show it has allowed the tax preparation industry to write the rules.

A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies. Contribute to bryanpkc/corkscrew development by creating an account on GitHub.

Oct. 25, 2019: When you see lightning, run! That’s what NOAA advises in lightning safety brochures. On Oct. 15th, however, pilot Chris Holmes had no place to go when lightning started to crac…

The co-founder of Foursquare tells us about the systems he uses to start companies, remember what he reads, and prioritize his time

“Half our customers are drunk and vaping like mo-fos, who the fuck is going to notice the quality of our pods,” the former CEO allegedly said. Juul says the lawsuit is “baseless.”

World Models Without Forward Prediction

unfork(2) is the inverse of fork(2). sort of. Contribute to whitequark/unfork development by creating an account on GitHub.

Being a knowledge worker in a reasonably modern company affords you some privileges not every worker has — like working from home.