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.

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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…

Another year, another predicted new-car reliability ranking from non-profit consumer products researchers at Consumer Reports. And this year, the domestic automakers aren’t looking so good, taking up 11 of the bottom 12 spots. Here’s a look at reliability…

An introduction to the static analysis tool Staticcheck for improving Go code

Need CPU power? AMD has you covered with new 24-core and 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors.

Google has begun testing their upcoming extension manifest V3 in the the latest Chrome Canary build, and with this initial 'alpha' release, developers can begin testing their extensions under the upcoming specification.

The artifacts of internet life are personal—that is, not professionally or historically notable—and therefore worthless.