Background : “IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning…

Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com Thu May 7 12:59:59 GMT 2020

First major study of scheme comes as economic toll of coronavirus prompts fresh interest in idea

In October 2017, Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto set out to plan a shared vision for Quayside, a fundamentally more sustainable and…

Pentagon officials on Wednesday criticized the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) recent decision to allow Virginia-based satellite communications company Ligado to deploy a nationwide mobile

When AMD announced the new Ryzen 3 processors built on Zen 2, I was under the impression that these were essentially the reject parts from AMD’s successful Ryzen 3000 line. Inside is a single chiplet with only four cores active out of eight, pushing up to…

Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

TLDR: 30 member tech team formed over seven years built India's largest stock broker. Unconventional setup. The long pending tech blog is finally here. Some backstory and context.

:gem: Beamsplitter - A new (possibly universal) hash that passes SMHasher. Built mainly with a random 10x64 S-box. Also in NodeJS - c9fe/beamsplitter

Sister firm Sidewalk Labs cites Covid-19 as the reason for stepping back from its ambitious plan.

The tests in this project, being limited to broad, "smoke test"-style assertions, do not support an assurance that the equations are being executed faithfully in discrete units of logic, ...

(Reuters) - Neiman Marcus Group filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday, marking one of the highest-profile collapses yet among retailers forced to temporarily close stores in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Official blog of Keybase

The business of state civil courts has changed over the past three decades. In 1990, a typical civil court docket featured cases with two opposing sides, each with an attorney, most frequently regarding commercial matters and disputes over contracts, injuries…

Small to medium business owners generally want a something in a compact design, to lug it around to a business meeting to take essential notes, but ultimately can be managed from a central administration system across hundreds or thousands of employees. Catering…

A follow up to A Critique of React Hooks including quiz results and more

Python noscript to download all Springer books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine - alexgand/springer_free_books