What do nested transactions look like in an ACID environment? We explore the journey of a nested SQL transaction in CockroachDB in this post.

Gabriele Keller overviews functional array-based high-performance computing, how to map such programs efficiently to parallel hardware, and discusses challenges and ongoing work.

A feature exclusively available for Apple users called “Shortcuts,” which was launched in 2018, allows users to conduct tasks on their phones that would normally require multiple actions with a single voice command of the iPhone’s artificial intelligence…

With their economy crumbling from hyperinflation, Venezuelans are finding new workarounds to get hold of digital dollars.

3somes, Gay Daddy Bear, and Herpes Dating are among the nine services that leaked the data of hundreds of thousands of users.

July 1, 2020: Post updated to take care that Amazon EFS increased file system minimum throughput, when burst credits are exhausted, to 1 MiB/s. I am very happy to announce that AWS Lambda functions can now mount an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)…

A new email app called "Hey" from the team at Basecamp has run into trouble with Apple for refusing to offer a subnoscription option that can...

It comes after Google was notified of research from a British nonprofit on websites publishing racist articles about the protests.

The Canada emergency response benefit (CERB) is being extended by two more months, even as the government encourages people to look for jobs and to go back to work when it's possible to do so.

Press "Paint" if you like what you see, or "No" if you don't.

The e-commerce upstart, which also has a deal with Facebook, is seizing the pandemic moment.

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Evidence from Indonesia shows that development goals don’t have to come at a cost to the climate.

This sleep pattern is common in many . Researchers believe that the ability to sleep in a consolidated or monophasic pattern probably evolved later. The evidence suggests that a pattern is more efficient. Polyphasic animals sleep longer than monophasic ones.…

An aesthetic of minimalism in architecture and interior design has been sold to consumers of high design for decades now in the pages of Dwell and the endlessly scrollable interfaces of websites like designboom and ArchDaily.

I’m not trying to be coy, but what is the iPhone itself? A business device or a consumer product? Using *or* instead of *and* as the conjunction there is clearly laughable.