Coming to an Apple Store near you in 2023. We think.

Marking an important milestone in computer memory development, today the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association is releasing the final specification for its next mainstream memory standard, DDR5 SDRAM. The latest iteration of the DDR standard that has been…

There have been many metallurgists over the decades who have developed steels used in knives. Who has made the greatest contribution?

Data and analytics service Databricks today announced that it has acquired Redash, a company that helps data scientists and analysts visualize their data

If the first nuclear weapons test had been a flop, would the world be better or worse off?

One semi-hidden feature in GIMP is that you can do simple calculations in the spinbox widgets where you input numeric values. This tutorials explains how it works and all the advanced things you can do there.

A 16-year-old boy held in a Los Angeles juvenile hall was prescribed estrogen to treat a behavioral disorder, a practice several doctors say flies in the face of accepted medical doctrine, according to a lawsuit filed in late June. The boy developed enlarged…

Let's learn how to build a simple analytics using Ecto, GenServer and Elixir's process registry.

Principles of how pulse oximetry works explained without using complicated physics.

In unusual industry news, Nikon has issued a small recall for the Nikon F6: its last flagship film SLR, released in the year 2004. The recall is the result of updates to a European law on the use of hazardous substances, and if your F6 is one of the few that…

Full-time minimum wage workers cannot afford a two-bedroom rental anywhere in the U.S. and cannot afford a one-bedroom rental in 95% of U.S. counties, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition's annual "Out of Reach" report.

Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world's most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. Twitter says the attack happened because someone tricked or coerced…

GitHub Archive Program preserves open source software for future generations by storing your code in an archive built to last a thousand years.

Caltech microbiologists have discovered bacteria that feed on manganese and use the metal as their source of calories. Such microbes were predicted to exist over a century ago, but none had been found ...

To let Americans speak their minds without fearing for their jobs, we need to end at-will employment.

Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere watched a black hole’s corona disappear, then reappear, for first time. A colliding star may have triggered the drastic transformation.

In at least one case, that same company is now getting pandemic-related contracts

British Airway has announced that it will immediately retire its Boeing 747 fleet following the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. The airline was forced to store all of its 28 747-400s due to reduced dem