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

Modern blog engine running on Elasticsearch. Contribute to BigDataBoutique/ElastiQuill development by creating an account on GitHub.

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.…

In October the Register reported that 20 Stack Exchange moderators had distanced themselves from the geeky Q&A site to protest policy changes and the removal of moderator Monica Cellio "over alleged violations of as-yet unpublished Code of Conduct changes."…

FDA approves Ubrelvy (ubrogepant) tablets for migraine.

The AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) is a dedicated ARM CPU inside your AMD processor and runs undocumented, proprietary firmware pr...

Considerations for distributed and decentralized technologies from the perspective of a product that many would like to see decentralize....

How one Taiwanese firm uses unrivalled technology to dominate the world’s chip-making industry