Mass media routinely portray information about COVID-19 deaths on logarithmic graphs. But do their readers understand them? Alessandro Romano, Chiara Sotis, Goran Dominioni, and Sebastián Guidi car…

A job that can be done anywhere is a job that can be outsourced.

A few weeks back, I was at XDC and gave a talk about various current and past input stack developments (well, a subset thereof anyway). On...

IBM’s job cuts were spread across at least five states, leaving longtime employees out of work as the coronavirus pandemic has chilled the economy.

Community support for Unreal Tournament was able to breath some new life into the game, even with the limitations of the closed binary. By 2018 however the game was no longer launching for Mesa users. For an engine with such a pedigree on Linux this outcome…

Every other service that tries to answer “What time is it in London?” gets it right. Only Siri gets it wrong.

People regularly go for complex test harnesses; and when you’re in an ecosystem, they can be a good fit. But outside ecosystems, it’s actually quite easy to produce a fairly good test harness.

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A revised version of an animation of the Howell 14.2 inch torpedo from 1896. This torpedo uses a heavy flywheel as its motive…

A patch slated to be merged for the Linux 5.8 kernel cycle next month that simply deletes ten lines of code (well, six lines of code and four lines of comments) will for some systems yield 'significant power savings' due to an oversight in the kernel code…

The economics of cheaper batteries—and why they're good news for the planet.

Scientists discover a new behaviour among bumblebees that tricks plants into flowering early.