Yesterday a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced a new bill called the EARN IT act. On its face, the bill seems like a bit of inside baseball having to do with legal liability for informati…

Explore the model that shows why Sia storage will stay below $2/TB/Mo for the long term.

The tradition of a "Hello, World" program goes back at least to 1978. But for modern coders, what's an appropriate "Hello, World"?

The coronavirus outbreak is turning one luxury treat reserved for special occasions into a meal bargain hunters can afford.

Fraunhofer IWS and Airbus develop ecofriendly process requiring less heat or chemicals to remove dangerous ice from wings.

Globally, less than 200 hand transplants have been conducted, and no scientific evidence exists to record changes in skin tone or shape of the hand. Doctors say this is the first such case, perhaps.

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The City of Austin has cancelled the March dates for SXSW and SXSW EDU. SXSW will faithfully follow the City’s directions. Read more.

SXSW has officially announced it will cancel its tech and music conference slated for March 13th to 22nd in Austin, Texas due to concerns around coronavirus, though it’s exploring rescheduling. “Based on the recommendation of our public health officer and…

To celebrate being alive for a billion seconds, Daniel Bruin built a machine with 100 gears with a 10-to-1 gear ratio…meaning that the overall gear ratio is a googol-to-one. (A googol is 1 with 100 zeros.)



This machine has a gear reduction of 1

When polarizing topics are discussed in meetings, passions can run high and cloud our judgment. Learn how mental models can help you see clearly from this real-life scenario.

A proposed waterway linking the Black Sea and the Baltic has sparked fears of catastrophic biodiversity loss – and raised the spectre of Chernobyl

System calls on Linux are relatively cheap, though the mitigations for
speculative-execution vulnerabilities have made them more expensive than
they once were. But even cheap system calls add up if one has to make a
large number of them. Thus, developers…

As the PS2 turns 20 in Japan, a look back on its PS1 backwards compatibility from the eyes of the former Sony engineer responsible for it.

EBay said it's blocking new listings for N95 and N100 masks, hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes.

Cropster started as a tool to lift coffee producers out of poverty. Now it has a bigger mission: to save the entire global food supply.