Players trying to launch Tron: Evolution are now met with a message telling them that the serial key has expired. This applies to the retail version as well as the Steam version which is delisted from the store. Players who previously bought the game can…

In the twentieth century, mathematicians developed a deep theory of knots, which was revolutionized by the discovery of the Jones polynomial—a way to calculate a number for every knot—by Vaughan F. R. Jones in the early 1980s. Below, Edward Witten, Charles…

Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer (1878–1929)

Treatments for chronic Lyme disease are controversial and expensive. As a last resort, some patients are pursuing this unproven and painful alternative. Treatments for Chronic Lyme disease are controversial and expensive. As a last resort, some patients are…

We launched the first generation (A1) of Arm-based, Graviton-powered EC2 instances at re:Invent 2018. Since that launch, thousands of our customers have used them to run many different types of scale-out workloads including containerized microservices, web…

The French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was assassinated in 1793 in his bathtub, where he was trying to find relief from the debilitating skin disease he was suffering from. At the time of his death, Marat was annotating newspapers, which got stained with…

A study based on the medical records of more than 45,000 women found a positive correlation between permanent hair dye and breast cancer—particularly among those who are black.

Update – June 30, 2020: Amazon RDS Proxy support for MySQL and PostgreSQL is now generally available. Update – April 8, 2020: We have announced Postgres compatibility with the Amazon RDS Proxy. Version 10.11 and 11.5 are supported in the preview. The AWS…

Study debunks idea that older models were inaccurate

Go package containing implementations of efficient encoding, decoding, and validation APIs. - segmentio/encoding

As a leader who primarily values team health, I place great value on the weekly 1:1 because it’s where I assess health. It’s my highest bandwidth meeting, and historically the slight to significant lag omnipresent in video conferencing impeded that bandwidth.…

If lower prices have benefited Getty's customers, they've also meant less money for stock photographers, whose once-generous earnings have in some cases fallen to as low as a few pennies per image.

A practical look at rediscovering old protocols and ATMs

The Sony Trinitron not only established Sony as a first-rank technology innovator, it also established Japan as a world-class source of advanced electronics

Recently on Facebook, my friend, nerd extraordinaire Esther Schindler, shared a photograph of herself wearing an old T-shirt and challenged her followers to identify it: Either you have no idea wha…

Ryan MacInnes is a web developer, programmer, and designer in Los Angeles, CA. He loves working on Ruby on Rails projects, Javanoscript and iOS. His forte is large, scalable and highly interactive web applicationswith a beautiful minimal approach to UI and…