Filecoin is built on a variation of Proof-of-Space. In building a decentralized storage network, we set out to build a proof structure in which consensus is achieved through an operation yielding positive social externality: data storage. With the testnet…

Older Swedes fear being left behind as businesses move away from cashless transactions.

Coronavirus can kill, but experts are still puzzling over how deadly the disease it causes truly is. Seoul’s aggressive screening regime might hold the answer.

“Some mathematicians are birds, others are frogs,” Dr. Dyson once wrote. He was both.

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Learn about SAML authentication and the mechanics behind some of the most common SAML use cases, all through the fictional BaaS (Beer-as-a-Service).

You can get the same trade-up discount without ruining your legacy Sonos device.

Facebook has an interesting feature. It will let you see which companies have associated your off-Facebook activity with your Facebook account. If you visit: you’ll see what companies are sni…

The news in brief: 1) Brain changes associated with aging become visible much earlier than would be expected, in the late 40's. 2) This is hypothesized to result from neurons’ loss of energy; if so, researchers may have found a way to prevent or reverse these…

Today, we announce the next evolution for FreeNAS and TrueNAS: with the 12.0 release, we are not only bringing more features and improvements than any release that has come before it, we are also unifying both products into a single software image and brand.…

@VLParkinson After April 2020 no software updates will be made available for the Hue Bridge v1 and compatibility with our online services will be terminated at that time. The Hue Bridge v1 can still be controlled locally via the dedicated Philips Hue Bridge…

(This is written with the contra dance community in mind, but is reasonably general.) Let's say you're on a safety committee at a dance, or an organizer or something, and someone's causing a problem. Maybe you've gotten reports that they're hurting people…

The right-to-repair movement has come to the heartland, where some farmers are demanding access to the software that runs their equipment.

While the drug is known to increase focus, alertness and motor skills, its effect on creative thinking had not been studied previously.

I haven't tried a new search engine since I tried Bing in 2009. It was time to find out how good DuckDuckGo is in 2020. What was the biggest difference that I found?

In this extract from his memoir, Bill Hayes, partner of Oliver Sacks, recalls the neurologist’s unworldly charm, their remarkable stay with Björk in Iceland, and the dignity of Sacks’s final weeks