Data portability is friendly to consumers, but it has very little to do with encouraging competition, at least relative to interoperability.

Nature - An extended bout of warm wet weather 232 million years ago may have profoundly altered life on Earth.

It’s really true that time flies, especially when you don’t have to think about servers: AWS Lambda just turned 5 years old and the team is always looking for new ways to help customers build and run applications in an easier way. As more mission critical…

OK SO let's say it's 1962 and you're lucky enough to be a programmer working somewhere that has an IBM 7090. This is a top of the line transistorized revision of the IBM 709, capable of 100,000 floating point operations per second. But how do you code for…

Trypophobia is the fear of clusters of holes and cracks.

It’s frustrating to lose a game to the same player every time. But help is at hand. Discover the ways you can make a game respond dynamically to participants so everyone has a chance of winning.

Russian malware, dubbed NotPetya, ripped through Ukraine in 2017, crippling government agencies, banks, and even the Chernobyl radiation monitoring system. Merck was apparently e its office in Ukraine. A few hundred lines of malicious code brought the firm…

In a recent study noscriptd Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects, an answer I wrote almost a decade ago was found to be the most copied snippet on Stack Overflow. Ironically it happens to be buggy.

Water rushes into Venice’s city council chamber just minutes after the local government rejects measures to combat climate change.…

One library was available for only two days, but the second was live for nearly a year.

Finally received my badge of honour with notice that Google have handed over "information related to [my] Google account" to the US DoJ. You think Assange case is just about Assange? Think again. #FreeAssange #DontExtraditeAssange

Before cellphones, Turkish “bird language” allowed farmers to communicate across long distances in the Pontic Mountains.

The Avast extensions which were spying on their users are no longer available from Mozilla and Opera add-on stores. Google still has to take action.

The Cannonball Record has been broken again.

Hi, my name is Ivo, and I love the wind! I am an addicted kiter, helicopter and jet pilot who seeks the wind, waves, METARs and powder snow almost constantly. Since programming is my passion, I coded Windyty.com in 2014 as my pet project. The original ver...

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