A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the City University of Hong Kong has introduced a local-to-global approach that can generate lifelike human portraits from relatively rudimentary sketches. Recent deep image-to-image translation…

For privacy-conscious protesters in the US, Signal's encrypted messaging app can help preserve anonymity.

As some of you pointed out in the comments of my last post, taking equidistant colors in the HSV color space is no solution for finding a set of colors that are perceived as equidistant. This post des

Thanks to a reader, a copy of SimRefinery has successfully been recovered!

So little is known about black holes and the image hints at a path to a higher-resolution image and more and better data.

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

This article is translated into Vietnamese at: Bên trong chíp định thời 555 . If you've played around with electronic circuits, you prob...

Going without sleep for too long kills animals but scientists haven’t known why. Newly published work suggests that the answer lies in an unexpected part of the body.

TL;DR • When it comes to mental health, our society approaches it like we did with physical health 50 years ago. We only think about it when something goes wrong. • To the wider public, mental heal…

HS2 has released the first picture of one the two TBMs that will spend around three years digging the longest and deepest HS2 tunnels – from just inside the M25 to South Heath in Buckinghamshire.

Using deep fake machine learning to create a video from an image and a source video.

The cloud initiative aims to provide companies with an alternative to Amazon Web Services and Alibaba. Skeptics say it may empower the giants instead.

The brain is complex; in humans it consists of about 100 billion neurons, making on the order of 100 trillion connections. It is often…

American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.

As millions head abroad, our correspondents pick out the words that for them speak volumes about the countries they love and live in

You’ve likely heard everyone at the office or online proclaim that “K8s has eaten everyone’s lunch!” or that “everything should be in a docker container!”. While there are advantages to the above methodologies; it’s very easy to have cargo-culted their adoption;…