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…

A pair of researchers at Kyoto University has found that chimpanzees will spontaneously dance to music. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yuko Hattori and Masaki ...

In the wake of the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, it

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that a more than two-year block on access to online encyclopaedia Wikipedia in the country is a violation of freedom of expression.

Alcohol has been more valuable to our species’ survival than we might imagine

Faced with an existential crisis in 2011, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings apologized to customers and then set about leading investors on a historic run.

Canners and trucks converge in a shadow economy of the streets.

At 52, I was accepted to Yale as a freshman. The students I met there surprised me.