For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, African American activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois led the creation of over 60 charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black life.

Civil rights groups find new advertising ally, as support for "defund Facebook" campaign gains steam.

Imagine you’re out behind enemy lines in WW2, setting up demolition charges that may save the lives of your fellow soldiers. How do we make a solid connection between wires that will last? On…

Google wants to know: what are you keen on?

From Minneapolis to Buffalo, Homeland Security officials dispatched drones, helicopters and airplanes to monitor Black Lives Matter protests.

President Stanley asked me this afternoon for my resignation. I do not agree with his decision, as serious issues of Academic Freedom and Fr...

...it was working fine last night.

I believe this is the first time anyone outside of Apple did an iOS development in XCode on iPad. Mad props to @UTMapp for shipping 1.0 before WWDC and to @_inside for making a better-than-1st-party WWDC app. https://t.co/0R5LN75u5D

Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opinion/apple-app-store-hey.html

Today’s developers—building cross-platform subnoscription web apps—don’t need what the App Store offers. That's why the 30% fee feels like a tax.

Are you good at complicated strategy games? Then you might have the talent to be a software mogul like Matt Calkins.

The contents were out of date or replaced, but you can still access the information via The National Archives website. Details how to do this below.

poem that describes the DeCSS algorithm

The Git source-code management system has for years been moving toward abandoning the Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) in favor of the more secure SHA-256 algorithm. Recently, the project moved a step closer to that goal with contributors implementing new…

Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at…

A Q&A style dialogue to separate fact from fiction.