A University of Adelaide designed and patented battery technology - which could revolutionise electricity storage by providing a far safer, cheaper and more reliable model than those already on the market - has secured a $1 million research contract to bring…

Bringing stenography to everyone. The Open Steno Project seeks to bring free software, low-cost hardware, and interactive learning tools to everyone who wants to use steno for their personal or professional pursuits.

If you need a publish/subscribe or job server at any point in your project, try using Postgres. It'll give you lots of data integrity and performance guarantees, and it doesn't require you or your team learning any new technology.

Python package + CLI to generate stylistic wordclouds, including gradients and icon shapes! - minimaxir/stylecloud

Bill Gates and others warn that higher taxes would lead to lower growth. They have their facts backward.

Fitbit says data of its 28 million users will not be sold or used for Google ads

Parallel Commits are an atomic commit protocol in CockroachDB. The feature promises to halve the latency of distributed transactions by performing all consensus round trips required to commit a transaction concurrently.

Hello, Thanks for your hard work on gh-ost! As I familiarize myself with the way it all works, I noted that foreign keys are explicitly not supported, but that they may be to some extent in the fut...

The company has made it extremely difficult to use web-based technology on its platforms, and it hopes developers won’t bother

For decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake.

What explains the popularity of terminals with 80×24 and 80×25 displays? A recent blog post " 80x25 " motivated me to investigate this. The ...

How streaming platforms are changing art

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You'll get a charge out this picture taken long ago. It captures Mark Twain, a literary giant of the 19th century, tinkering in the laboratory of the great inventor, Nikola Tesla.