Like the entertainment industry, colleges will need to embrace digital services in order to survive.

There are advantages to being one of the world’s largest single-payer health-care systems. For the UK’s National Health Service, the NHS, big data is increasingly one of them.  Its Recovery Trial, launched early in the coronavirus outbreak to collect information…

Taken from JRE #1494 w/Bret Weinstein: https://youtu.be/pRCzZp1J0v0

“Activity in cislunar space is expected to increase considerably in the coming years.”

Whenever I have a chance, I extol the virtues of message-passing and event-loops in structuring concurrent workflows in Rust. However, in…

The way you create and access your data can affect your app’s performance. Let’s see how.

A delightfully fresh take on email + calendar, from 37signals

Deus Ex is the king of the immersive sims – the blueprint from which an entire genre of ideas has been pilfered. If you’ve loved a Dishonored game, you’ve enjoyed Deus Ex by proxy; its design, and even some of its developers, can be found at the very centre…

We’ve heard from our users that the inability to say “thank you” is frustrating—especially for new users who don’t have enough reputation to upvote or comment. Even when users gain these privileges, they still want to say “thanks.”

The association of habitual coffee consumption with a lower risk of diseases, like type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic liver disease, certain cancer types, or with reduced all-cause mortality, has been confirmed in prospective cohort studies in many regions…

A generic, simple and fast implementation of Deepmind's AlphaZero algorithm. - jonathan-laurent/AlphaZero.jl

Craig Gidney's computer science blog

Quite often someone proposes something like this: HTML should never have grown into the mutated application runtime it is today. The present...

Patagonia has joined companies like REI and The North Face, saying it plans to pause advertising on Facebook and Instagram to show support for a movement called "#StopHateForProfit."

Most employees of @nytimes won’t be required back in physical offices until January, 2021. (Sounds like there may be some exceptions.) Email to staff:

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The Data Dividend Project is advocating for data property rights

Simple mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure. - whytheplatypus/switchboard