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geeky Q&A site to protest policy changes and the removal of moderator Monica Cellio "over alleged violations of as-yet unpublished Code of Conduct changes."…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

A Do it Yourself project to help remove dust particles in your room. A completely open-source hardware project which you can download and use for free.