In Japanese architecture and science fiction from the 1960s through the 1990s, we can trace an enduring question: “how to make substantial architecture when substantial things are losing their meaning.”

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This is the fifth part of a series taking a historian’s look at the Battle of Helm’s Deep (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. VIII) from both J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers (1954) and Peter Jackson…

Though police were responsible for most of the violence, some protesters got in on the act too.

SAN FRANCISCO—On Friday, May 29, San Francisco based company Brex announced that they had laid off 62 employees. With 449 employees total, this layoff will get rid of approximately 13.8% of Brex’s workforce. Brex is a financial technology company focused…

Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease

Protests against the killing of George Floyd intensified over the weekend

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Linus has released the 5.7 kernel right on
schedule.
Headline features in 5.7 include
x86 split-lock detection,
thermal-pressure management,
frequency invariance in the load-tracking
code,
coexistence between BPF and realtime
preemption,
support for BPF…

For centuries, Germany has been synonymous with order. So how can a rule-abiding nation also have an anything-goes spirit?

It’s important for software engineers to determine what their hierarchy of engineering values is when looking to change projects, teams or companies...

A developer has claimed Microsoft copied his own Windows package manager after interviewing him for a job

There is an unexplained terrestrial mass extinction at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary (359 million years ago). The discovery in east Greenland of malformed land plant spores demonstrates that the extinction was coincident with elevated UV-B radiation…

Are thought experiments experiments at all? Or something else? And do they help us think clearly about ethics or not?

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