Long before GPS, drivers still wanted tech that could simplify the navigation process.

Here are some projects I’d like to see funded, some through my own ventures, or others through alternative mechanisms. On these issues, the right person could have an enormous impact, whether through the research side or directly coming up with actionable…

As the city experiences a new wave of gentrification, businesses are shuttering – and nothing is replacing them

Have you ever wondered why some things become dark when you spill water on them? What’s exactly happening? 


Well, let’s find out!












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As you read this line, you're bringing each word into clear view for a brief moment while blurring out the rest, perhaps even ignoring the roar of a leaf blower outside. It may seem like a trivial skill, but it's actually fundamental to almost everything…

You’re likely familiar with the old tale about how Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple and started his own company, NeXT. Apple then bought NeXT and their technologies and brought Jobs back as C…

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Jake Berman spent more than 300 hours making his own subway map because he didn't like the MTA's. Now the MTA says he can't sell it.

"We are aware of incidents discussed below where employees violated our policies," a letter from Ring obtained by Motherboard reads.

And the Bay Area’s ten largest cities combined sport three empty homes for every two persons without one.

Create interactive, multi-perspective diagrams with Ilograph

“People have to clock in and clock out even when going to the toilet and explain the reason why they were delayed, which is embarrassing and humiliating.”

Since the Industrial Revolution, normal body temperature in both men and women has decreased monotonically by 0.03°C per birth decade.

Copying data wastes memory, and modifying/mutating data can lead to bugs. Learn how to implement a compromise between the two in Python: hidden mutability.

The laws of physics stay the same no matter one’s perspective. Now this idea is allowing computers to detect features in curved and higher-dimensional space.

The move comes with layoffs of about 14% of its workforce.

A simple C++11 Thread Pool implementation. Contribute to progschj/ThreadPool development by creating an account on GitHub.