An extraordinary near-miss of history helps explain Brexit.

As the internet turns 50, the global vision that animated it is under attack. What can be done?

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During the early days of testing for the legendary SR-71 Blackbird there were some harrowing mishaps, the details of which have rarely come to light. On January 25, 1966, test pilot Bill Weaver and Lockheed flight test reconnaissance and navigation systems…

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

The Steam client for Linux now supports using namespaces (a.k.a containers) to run game noscripts. This feature is available in the latest Steam client beta, and can be used for all native Linux noscripts in your Steam library. In order to run a noscript in a container…

A Fast Deep Learning Model to Upsample Low Resolution Videos to High Resolution at 30fps - HasnainRaz/Fast-SRGAN

Amazon has big plans for its virtual assistant. One day, perhaps sooner than you think, Alexa will take a proactive role in directing our lives. It’ll interpret our data, make decisions for us, and summon us when it has something to say. Rohit Prasad, the…

English-speaking gamers have "All Your Base", but what do Japanese gamers have?

Ontario residents are being warned about a relatively new kind of fraud called "SIM swapping" in which criminals steal personal information via mobile phones in order to gain access to bank accounts.

NASA's skywatching resources are shared in that same spirit of exploration. We recognize that there's an explorer in each of us, and we want you to remember

A function to return the number of digits in an input (natural) number provides many learning opportunities for a new programmer

If you’ve been looking to use Live with technologies like Arduino, LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 and OSC, this free set of Max for Live devices provides exactly what you need. Now it’s simpler than ever to set up new and experimental ways to interact with and extend…

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Successful evacuation of a peculiar ‘colony’ of the wood ant Formica polyctena Först., for years trapped within an old bunker previously used for storing nuclear weapons (see Czechowski et al. 2016), is reported. Using an experimentally installed boardwalk…

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My MacBook Pro is three years old, and for the first time in my life, a three-year-old primary computer doesn’t feel like a crisis which must be resolved immediately. True, this is partly because I’m waiting for Apple to fix their keyboard debacle, and partly…