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Minuscule camera streams video from tiny robots and live bugs

Is it the destiny of the West to die? For Oswald Spengler, the answer was yes. In The Decline of the West he argued that all civilisations go through a similar life-cycle. According to Spengler, the Medieval Era was the spring of the West, the Renaissance…

Amid record unemployment, HHS is doling out more than $1 billion in coronavirus contracts that omit price-gouging safeguards.

The NBA bans you, the fan, from putting #freehongkong on customized league jerseys even as they allow players to wear customized jerseys. https://t.co/px9enQa1qk

Here’s what it found about meetings, culture, workdays, and engagement.

The new head of defense research and engineering comes from the White House with a relatively light resume.

Citrine Programming Language: How to make a game, how to make an app.

GPT-3 is indeed a large step forward for AI text-generation, but there are very many caveats with the popular demos and use cases.

Github, the world's leading software development platform last year at Github Universe 2019 revealed its plan to store all of its open-source software data in an Arctic vault as part of its Archive Program. Now the code-hosting platform is done making sure…

I work remotely and have for many years, but let’s be honest: it’s the case for a lot of people now. Lately I’ve been trying to step up how my home office looks, especially with r…

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Nature Communications - Ageing phenotypes are of great interest but are difficult to study genetically, partly due to the sample sizes required. Here, the authors present a multivariate framework...

Set up paid newsletters at custom domains. Then start networking them together into decentralized media.

I cannot remember the last time I had this much to report. With so many announcements and highlights, I ran out of time and didn’t cover a handful of topics that happened this month.

The resilience of centralised networks remains significantly underestimated by p2p challengers. Decentralised movements are dangerously unprepared for a crisis-fuelled future that has very suddenly arrived at their door.