For the second time this week, the secretive AGM-114R9X Hellfire missile has punched a hole through a car's roof and sliced its target to death.

In this blog post we’ll go through a sample implementation of a type checker, interpreter and a transpiler for a basic purely functional programming language, which is based on the lambda calculus. We will do a “full-stack” programming language development…

We all lost a great person Cropped from Mexican NotiCyTI obit Héctor Garcia-Molina died just before Thanksgiving. He was a computer scientist and Professor in both the Departments of Computer Scien…

An open source version of a game engine developed by Croteam for the classic Serious Sam games. - Croteam-official/Serious-Engine

The editor of the Bookseller explains why the hardback format will be with us for a while yet

Today, we’re going to take a look at a little known type of weapon which rose to prominence in around the time of the First World War with a number of examples being developed and some even tested.…

See the article in its original context from August 6, 1989, Section 6, Page 23Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from…

In 1962, 24-year-old Donald Knuth began writing The Art of Computer Programming -- and 57 years later, he's still working on it. But he's finally released The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5: Mathematical Preliminaries Redux; Introduction…

System administration is in a sad state. It in a mess.

If you've read yesterdays post about ZEIT Now, you've already seen one of many approaches to develop and deploy a serverless API. In this post we will have a look at an alternative you can use to develop serverless applications, namely Serverless Framework.…

Some technologists use psychedelics to boost creativity and productivity. Here’s how to get similar benefits through more conventional approaches.

There have been a slew of systematic replication efforts and meta-analyses with rather provocative findings of late. The ego depletion saga is one of those stories. It is an important story because…

Private jets get a reputation for being extravagant, but they can also be a huge time saver. Read on to learn all you need to know about buying a private jet.