The US film industry may have generated revenues somewhere in the region of $40 billion last year, but it seems Hollywood still has plenty of work to do if it wants to compete with that most hallow…

Researchers at the University of B.C. have found a link between living near highways and an increased risk of several major neurological disorders, including dementia and Parkinson’s disease.

How Web Standards Work 1. design a flawed API (it's fine! APIs are hard) 2. ship it in the most-used browser, despite objections 3. get cross-browser working group to fix the API 4. oops, too late, that would break the web

Scenarios indicate that Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is critical to meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to ‘well below 2°C’. But, at what scale?

Is it possible to out-eat the price you pay for an all-you-can-eat buffet? How do these places make money in this situation?

The 777X test flight comes after Boeing's 737 Max plane was grounded following two fatal crashes.

Plasma has gained its first user of the new notification inline reply feature in 5.18: Telegram Desktop! Big thanks to Kai Uwe Broulik for venturing forth to contribute a patch to Telegram that mad…

High-tax states are losing people, money and seats in Congress.

List of resources related to LD_PRELOAD, a mechanism for changing application behavior at run-time - gaul/awesome-ld-preload

Here's how your favorite old-school school supply became an icon.

What do the digits of pi, colliding blocks and quantum search algorithms have in common? More than you might expect. Two playful papers, one from 2003 and one from December of 2019, provide...

Today, on Wikipedia’s 19th birthday, the Wikimedia Foundation has received reports that access to Wikipedia in Turkey is actively being restored.* This latest development follows a 26 December 2019 ruling by the Constitutional Court of Turkey that the more…

Find and compare USB hubs on found Amazon to find the USB hub you have been looking for.

Fred and George, Turtles in love There are hundreds of cool command line tools that have been made over the years built on the unix philosophy. Plain text is powerful, ubiquitous, and human-centric. It was also the only option for computing for quite a while.…

In case you are not yet familiar with why an initramfs (or initrd, or initial ramdisk) is typically used when starting Linux, let me quote the wikipedia definition:
“[…] initrd is a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into memory, which may be…