The paddocks are bare, the dams dry. A veterinarian describes the devastation of climate change in the northern NSW community of Inverell.

(1856-1943)

In a nation where 58,000 American service members died, affordable care and a rising standard of living is luring back some veterans.

A collection of lectures on deep learning, deep reinforcement learning, autonomous vehicles, and artificial intelligence organized by Lex Fridman.

Lawmakers, industry and consumer groups say a new law to combat the scourge of robocalls represents significant steps forward, but they also concede that it is a ‘Whac-A-Mole’ problem, and the calls are likely to continue.

If you thought cybercrime was mostly about skilled hackers finagling their way through complex firewalls, think again. Most scams involve people being manipulated or blackmailed into handing over their cash.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is replacing the current version of the PubMed database with a newly re-designed version. The new version is now live and can be found at  You can still acces…

Example-based tests hinge on a single scenario. Property-based tests get to the root of software behavior across multiple parameters.

Two Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes crashed shortly after takeoff, on October 28, 2018 near Jakarta, Indonesia and March 10, 2019, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The disasters cost the lives of 346 passengers and crew. Black box data recovered from the two planes…

Second screens and the sickness unto death.

In this post, we show you how easy it is to introduce back doors that are easily missed by project owners… leaving your code insecure.

A symmetry drawing tool

A year ago today, weighing nearly 200 pounds and feeling physically run down, and also feeling somewhat depressed about those facts, I hauled my carcass up on the treadmill we have in our basement …

How a search for the hidden land of Shambhala turned into a geopolitical power play.

December was a big time for 1980s computer and video-game magazines. Their shiny covers stood out at newsagents and magazine stands, hoping to encourage Christmas shoppers to purchase them as stocking stuffers for friends, relatives [more...]

In this second part of an interview with economist Jonathan Rothwell, he explains that a just society wouldn’t reward different professions so unequally.

Not everything was perfect in 1995, but I think we've lost something on the way. Some remarks: 1) Underlined letters indicate keyboard shortcuts. How handy! 2) Design clearly says: "We are buttons!". It's easy to find the wanted button, because they have…