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Here's a surprise: a report of a completely new (and rather unusual) allotrope of carbon. There doesn't appear to be a manunoscript out there yet, but the results were presented earlier this month at a conference in Richmond and earlier this year at the APS…

A new class of objects, called topology-disturbing objects, is presented. These objects appear to disturb the topological properties when they are seen from two specific viewpoints; for example, tw...

Exploratory testing is a vital tool to explore outside the boundary of even the best automated tests.

Elon Musk put on a brave face as the windows of his new "Cybertruck" were broken on stage.

Accepting an award from the Anti-Defamation League, the comedian called Facebook “the greatest propaganda machine in history.”

There are a few tendencies among programmers that involve the totem of “simplicity.” There’s the ancient concept of KISS, of course, but there’s also the much-abused YAGNI, the insistence that we “Choose Boring Technology," entire languages that base their…

Google has announced that Cloud Print, its cloud-based printing solution, is being retired at the end of next year. It’s an early heads up, yes, but it’s a necessary one — Cloud Print is pretty widely used. Google recommends that users of Cloud Print “identify…

Applied Econometrics Library for Python. Contribute to mfarragher/appelpy development by creating an account on GitHub.

Alarming media stories that twist the facts about rising sea levels are dangerous because they scare people unnecessarily and push policymakers toward excessively expensive measures to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The real solution is to lift the world’s…

Capturing human performances in high-definition 3D is a complicated proposition, and among the many challenges is getting the lighting right. This

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GitLab 12.5 released with EKS Cluster Creation and Deployment, Crossplane support, Environments Dashboard, and much more!

When mice learn to do a new task, their brain activities change over time as they advance from ‘novice’ to ‘expert.’ The changes are reflected in the wiring of cell circuits and activities of neurons. Using a two-photon imaging microscope and a wealth of…

Three years ago I came across an interesting paper written up by a Microsoft employee, Kent Sullivan, on the process and findings of designing the new user interface for Windows 95. The web page ha…

Google quietly revealed this week that it will kill Cloud Print, a cloud-based printing solution that never exited beta.

Flan Scan is a thin wrapper around Nmap that converts this popular open source tool into a vulnerability scanner with an easy deployment.

After a decade of making printing easy, Google just isn't interested anymore.