Apple's new Safari Privacy Report feature in macOS Big Sur shows that the browser now blocks Google Analytics from tracking users on websites.

In a new paper, Yale SOM’s Fiona Scott Morton writes that the company took control of the social media industry by misleading consumers and buying up rivals.

This year, at the international VLSI conference, Intel’s CTO Mike Mayberry gave one of the plenary presentations, which this year was noscriptd ‘The Future of Compute’. Within the presentation, a number of new manufacturing technologies were discussed, including…

Are you sick of clicking 'back to top' buttons on websites, and being lifted to the top without a real elevator experience? Elevator.js is here to help.

Terrain features are to a high degree shaped by hydraulic erosion. Several algorithms exist for simulating this process that vary in realism and computational complexity. This article proposes a simple and fast method that produces realistic looking results.

The Open Goldberg Variations is a project led by pianist Kimiko Ishizaka, working with MuseScore.com, to create a public domain recording (MP3 & WAV) and score of J.S. Bach's masterpiece, Die Goldberg Variationen (BWV 988).

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Exclusive: project will store renewable energy and reduce climate-heating emissions

The author wanted to write a great saga that would fill a gap in the nation's pre-history

<p>May 2020 Gwern.net newsletter: GPT-3 scaling, implications, deep theory; anime GAN updates, and 1 book review.</p>

Apple’s WWDC Features Parallels Desktop for Mac Running on Mac with Apple Silicon. Learn more about it in this blog post:

Easily document cables and wiring harnesses. Contribute to wireviz/WireViz development by creating an account on GitHub.

A new study from Penn State tracked excess influenza-like illness data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to estimate that the number of early COVID-19 cases in the U.S. may have been more than 80 times greater and doubled nearly twice as…

Learn why Git flow complicates the lifecycle and discover an alternative to streamline development.

A couple of weeks ago, I tried to fly from New York (JFK) to Los Angeles on JetBlue. I was racially profiled, detained, and interrogated for hours.

Fancy a tube map with a difference? How about one made from a circuit board - with lights that show live train movements?

An open source re-implementation of Diablo 2. Contribute to OpenDiablo2/OpenDiablo2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

According to the Hacker News “leaders” list, I am the 35th highest-ranked user of the site in terms of karma score. And I think I’m done with it.

Antisocial network floods registrars with unjustified data requests