Through friends in the Russian science community, I was able to get the raw telemetry from Venera-13 and 14. I funded its recovery from old tapes and conversion to TIF format. It consisted of multiple transmissions with considerable noise.

The Maersk Triple-E Class container ship is 1,300 feet long, carries over 18,000 containers across 11,000 miles between Europe and Asia, and… Its entire crew can fit inside a passenger van.

Alien civilizations on other worlds would need much more awkward contortions to their calendars than we make here on Earth.

Postgres Explain Visualizer 2. Contribute to dalibo/pev2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

LONDON (Reuters) - British hedge fund billionaire Chris Hohn has launched a campaign to persuade central banks to starve hundreds of planned coal-fired power plants around the world of finance, aiming to block the projects before they can pose a threat to…

How fears of mind control went from paranoid delusion to conventional wisdom

Switzerland’s Federal Department of Finance has filed a criminal complaint “against persons unknown” over media reports that a leading Swiss-based cryptological equipment manufacturer was secretly …

[Update 2020-03-05: The most up-to-date summary is at 2020.02.29 CAA Rechecking Bug] Due to the 2020.02.29 CAA Rechecking Bug, we unfortunately need to revoke many Let’s Encrypt TLS/SSL certificates. We’re e-mailing affected subscribers for whom we have…

Collision, or intersection, detection is an important geometric operation with a large number of applications in graphics, CAD and virtual reality including: map overlay operations, constructive so…

Robinhood, the free-trading pioneer favored by younger traders, said it was experiencing an outage on Monday.

So @hugo_official (who turnover approx $2.7 billion a year) have sent cease & desist letters to a number of small businesses & charities who use the word 'BOSS' or similar, including a small brewery in Swansea costing them thousands in legal fees and rebranding.…

A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug. This deep-dive tutorial examines how React and Gatsby can be used to pre-render content, and how we can work around the constraints to build dynamic, personalized…

As described in Warner's email message[1] to the FreeBSD-arch mailing
list we have reached GCC 4.2.1's retirement date. At this time all
supported architectures either use in-tree ...

A study in infants adds to the debate about whether we come into the world prepped for higher cognitive abilities such as face recognition

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The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by half a percentage point in the first such emergency move since the 2008 financial crisis, amid mounting concern that the coronavirus outbreak threatens to stall the record U.S. economic expansion.