NASA is sending a new laser-toting robot to Mars. But unlike the lasers of science fiction, this one is used for studying mineralogy and chemistry from up to about 20 feet (7 meters) away. It might help ...

(EDIT: See new scenario tracker based on the 4 cases outline here) Hard facts on the coronavirus are surprisingly hard to come by. It is unclear how many are currently infected. Not only because the numbers from China are inherently unreliable (lets not forget…

A software glitch that could have destroyed the capsule was fixed in orbit, during an uncrewed December test flight that had already gone awry.

Find shows traits favored by ancient date farmers

U.S. and German intelligence agencies partnered on a scheme to dupe dozens of nations into buying rigged encryption systems — taking their money and stealing their secrets.

Maybe it helps some other devs out there (to find an idea or something to work on), but here are the services that I pay for to run my business:
• Heroku (~$200/month): Running 3 different projects, and some with jobs servers as well
• Upwork (~$1000/month):…

Discover the history of Git, based on interviews with Linus Torvalds, Johannes Schindelin, Jeff King and Tom Preston-Werner.

A turtleocracy is an organizational and decision-making structure. It's an alternative to democracy, do-ocracy, bureaucracy, consultancy, etc. See comparisons with these other forms at @Is Turtleocracy Right for Your Organization?

Hardware security specialists at F-Secure have created an USB sized computer that's super secure. Here's the full story...

Today we’ve released Firefox 73, with useful additions that include CSS and JavaScript updates, and numerous DevTools improvements. We’ve added to CSS logical properties, pushed performance forward in the Console ...

During the first weeks in a new role, one of the things I’ve most recently focused on is to assess the direction of the engineering department as a whole. At the time I started there was no explicit strategy in place. Which is also not an unusual thing for…

In 2019 we monitored the performance of 122,507 hard drives. In this article we look at the failure rates by make and model.

Ever since I became independent, I’ve wanted to write about the financial aspects of running a business.

Our efforts to fight poverty are often based on the misconception that poor people must pull themselves up out of the mire. But the relentless struggle to make ends meet has serious effects on the brain. Poverty is not a lack of character – it’s a lack of…

And that's a problem that is extremely dangerous.

Machine learning, the process of teaching computer algorithms to perform new
tasks by example, is poised to transform industries from agriculture
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