On Wednesday, the day of the work stoppage, Shipt will expand a blackbox pay model that workers say will hurt their earnings.

Being targeted by those who traffic in false promises feels like a “slap in the face” to patients like me.

How to tell original from fake DS18B20 temperature sensors. - cpetrich/counterfeit_DS18B20

A quick look at the ballistics and stability of aerial fireworks.

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In and around the CHOP protest zone is starting to resemble law enforcement of a hundred years ago, with no cops but lots of private corporate-hired guns and citizen militias, all trying to protect their turf.

Explaining HDBSCAN in ~5 minutes

A friend who has dyslexia described to me how she experiences reading. She can read, but it takes a lot of concentration, and the letters seems to “jump around”.

A team of divers and archaeologists discovered the 19th-century fragrance in a shipwreck off the coast of Bermuda.

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Building a replacement for JavaScript's random number generator.

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A few observers in the Southern Hemisphere are beginning to capture Comet NEOWISE, too. Charts here for seeing the comet in late July and early August.

At first, pilots took the blame for crashes. The true cause, however, lay with the design. That lesson led us into our user-friendly age—but there's peril to come.