Human beings search more and more. Continuing to treat search as some mystical voodoo is untenable and must stop.

Pragli's A/V communication is inspired by a walkie-talkie, rather than a phone call. In this article, I'll explain why we chose a walkie-talkie, some hiccups we ran into when implementing a walkie-talkie, and how it ended up looking in Pragli.

And somewhere in the back of his mind was a small, small note of confusion, a sense of something wrong about that story; and it should have been a part of Harry’s art to notice that tiny note…

After revolutionizing software, the open-source movement is threatening to do same to the chip industry.

I discovered that we’re building a digital surveillance state much like the one in China.

This post is the first in a probable series of ‘tangents’, not part of a continuing series like The Switch or The Backbone. In fact, this particular tangent veers well off of this blog&…

Inside hundreds of surveillance experiments along the US-Mexico border - marcdacosta/border-radio-investigation

The firm says it plans to build up to 15 of the mini reactors, which can be delivered by a lorry.

We seem to be less interested in either of these games than in exploring the connection between them—or rather, the philosophical question to which that connection points.

Ever wondered if Google Ads are really worth it, but don't have the cash for an experiment? One's been done for you!

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The latest evidence submitted by the US government underscores the fundamental democratic issues at stake in the decade-long illegal persecution and witch-hunting of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.

Secret Manager is a new GCP product that securely and conveniently stores API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.

Maximum-security biolab is part of plan to build network of BSL-4 facilities across China.

The Chinese city of Wuhan is rapidly building a new 1,000-bed hospital to treat victims of a new coronavirus, mobilizing machinery to get it ready by early next week, state media said.

Some big news from Galaxy Zoo: It's looking very much like a classic classification scheme for galaxies — first dreamed up by Edwin Hubble himself! — may be, um,  wrong. The consequences of this are