The sheer spectacle of Tesla’s Cybertruck unveiling, from the severe angles to the smashed windows, will go down as the biggest news in electric pickup trucks this year. But a rival startup that has yet to deliver a single truck arguably had a more monumental…

Two Times Opinion writers answer readers’ questions on their investigation into how companies track smartphone users and profit off their data.

Certain bacteria can override a defence mechanism of the immune system, so called programmed cell death, through inhibition of death effector molecules by their outer membranes components. Shigella bacteria, ...

Debt in emerging and developing economies (EMDEs) climbed to a record US$55 trillion in 2018, marking an eight-year surge that has been the largest, fastest, and most broad-based in nearly five decades.

Meditations on Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

I create tutorial-style videos about electronics, computer architecture, networking, and various other technical subjects.

The study of graphene was starting to go out of style, but new experiments with sheets of the ultrathin material revealed there was much left to learn.

Linux doesn't have Photoshop.
One common rant I get to hear when I try to help someone to switch to Linux. It is almost 2020 and say what? people still agree with this statement.

freedb is a free CD and music data base service to look up textual metadata about music, audio or data CDs. This is done by a client which queries the freedb database. As a result, the client displays the artist, CD noscript, track list and some additional information.…

In this article, we will talk about designing a service to provide short URL links for temporary access to resources.

7 years ago I wrote an article about speed reading. Turns out I made a lot of mistakes. Discover why speed reading might not be as useful as expected.

Laser trains may sound like an invention of the 2030s, but they're already a real tool for the Long Island Rail Road.

In a recent post we have looked at a bloom filter implementation, which is a commonly used probabilistic data structure to provide fast…

Samsung Television firmware customization project

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Summary: we don't understand why programmers are paid so well. If you're a programmer, there's enough of a chance that this is temporary that it's worth explicitly planning for a future in which you're laid off and unable to find similarly high-paying work.…