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2I/Borisov, seen by the Hubble telescope, has brightened as it approaches the Sun.

PHOTO: NASA/ESA/D. JEWITT (UCLA)

The comet is an alien intruder from another star system. But 2I/Borisov, the second known interstellar visitor after far smaller…

Part of my series countering misconceptions in space journalism. Now available in audio form. Starlink, SpaceX’s plan to serve internet via tens of thousands of satellites, is a staple in the…

Jim Simons was a middle-aged mathematician in a strip mall who knew little about finance. He had to overcome his own doubts to turn Wall Street on its head.

Since my son was born five years ago, I’ve spent at least thirty hours a week with him, just one-on-one, giving him my full attention. But I’ve never written about parenting before because it’s a touchy subject — too easily misunderstood.

Before too long a smaller number of young people will be having to support a larger number of the very old, a typical and unsustainable Ponzi scheme.

Another month, another Vulkan progress report! October was a busy month, as most of it was split between working on the new Global Illumination system and Godotcon/GIC in Poland.

Readers share poignant stories of the pain and comfort that food can bring after a loved one dies.

I just stumbled upon this website called Practo and wanted to share a seamless user experience I had. While I was scrolling the website, looking at clean UI,…

One of the hardest things for any project author is to figure out whether their perspective on a project is aligned with perspective of the project’s users. I’m often guessing what people need and would find useful, what their issues are and what tools are…

As it turns out, not squeezing employees dry like a sponge is maybe a good thing.

4-Port High Power USB 2.0 Hub. Contribute to dilshan/usb2-power-hub development by creating an account on GitHub.

As the New York Times posts yet another breathless story about Stuxnet, I’m surprised that no one has pointed out its obvious deficiencies. Everyone seems to be hyperventilating about its pur…

Browsers historically have had a single HTTP Cache. This meant that if www.a.example and www.b.example both used cdn.example/jquery-1.2.1.js then JQuery would only be downloaded once. Since it's the same resource regardless of which site initiates the download…

During non–rapid eye movement sleep, low-frequency oscillations in neural activity support memory consolidation and neuronal computation. Sleep is also associated with increased interstitial fluid volume and clearance of metabolic waste products. It is unknown…

Alcohol breath tests, a linchpin of the criminal justice system, are often unreliable, a Times investigation found.

Steve Jobs explains how The Beatles influenced his approach to business: https://t.co/eeqiArKZ3W

Web Extension to save a faithful copy of an entire web page in a self-extracting ZIP file - GitHub - gildas-lormeau/SingleFileZ: Web Extension to save a faithful copy of an entire web page in a se...