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…

The original system study, the key innovations, and the forgotten heroes of the world’s first — and still greatest — global navigation satellite system. True history, told by the people who made it. Part One of a Two-Part Special Feature.

Software security must be addressed by all programmers, not just security experts. So we teach it in CS 330, a programming (languages) class.

SwiftLaTeX, a WYSIWYG Browser-based LaTeX Editor . Contribute to SwiftLaTeX/SwiftLaTeX development by creating an account on GitHub.

I’ve been having a ton of fun iterating on www.niche-museums.com. I put together some notes on how the site works last week, and I’ve been taking advantage of the Thanksgiving …

Segment saw two ideas flop and was almost out of money when it tried one last desperate strategy. Seven years later, the customer data company is a unicorn.

Ricky Kidd here. In 1997, I was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for double homicide -- a crime I didn’t commit. I had a...

by THOMAS OLAVSON Thomas leads a team at Google called "Operations Data Science" that helps Google scale its infrastructure capacity optim...

The uptick reverses a decades-long trend in America’s progress toward cleaner air.

3.3.0 (2019-12-04)
v3.3.0 is a minor release that adds new features, including custom templates and support for the new optional chaining and nullish coalescing operators.
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