Determined to meet Bezos’s demand for Tesla-size government handouts, the HQ2 team became victims of their own hubris.

Two years ago I started playing with WebUSB, a web API to connect hardware to the Web. The idea was crazy, especially that there is already an implementation supported by Chrome, but… unfortu…

You see, I was a fully indoctrinated company kid; I believed wholeheartedly that the United States and Saudi Arabia had a “special relationship” that ran deeper than oil. For a long time after we moved back to the States, I was angry. I felt bereft. Today…

Mini projects built with HTML5, CSS & JavaScript. No frameworks or libraries - bradtraversy/vanillawebprojects

Two Uber drivers transported a passenger infected with coronavirus around Mexico City.

Scientific Reports - Universal and reusable virus deactivation system for respiratory protection

A benchmark entry shows strong performance from AMD's upcoming Threadripper 3990X, especially compared to two Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 workstation processors.

The corporate debt bubble is better understood through the lens of Netflix's addiction to debt and the unprecedented low yield of junk bonds.

An Amiga 500, Stereo Master and handful of $1 records from a 1990 Sunday market: Can we make a dance track on a budget home computer? Of course! Back when big-name dance tunes required big-budget-gear, a secondhand Amiga let you take the first steps to making…

Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower…

The Git source-code management system is famously built on the SHA‑1
hashing algorithm,
which has become an increasingly weak foundation over the years. SHA‑1 is
now considered to be broken and, despite the fact that it does not yet seem
to be so broken…

What happens when a cleaner in a Finnish office building finds five euros on the floor?

Julius Caesar kept a cache of it in the government treasury and the Greeks even put it on their money. It was worth its weight in gold – but no one knows if it still exists.

Twitter discloses security incident involving the abuse of one of its official API features.

Service providers don’t like to call it “cheating” — they prefer the terms “academic writing” and “online tutoring.”

Everlook makes it easy to find and list remote job opportunites. Create and find remote listings today.

The critique of economic growth, once a fringe position, is gaining widespread attention in the face of the climate crisis.

The app was quickly put together in the past two months and was not properly tested at a statewide scale, according to people briefed on the matter.