The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely rare, and — until now — astronomers…

Watching the advancement of technology is interesting enough by looking at improved specifications for various components as the years go by. But clock speeds, memory size, and power consumption ar…

There is a lot of randomness in a game of Slay the Spire. From the cards and relics offered, to the potions dropped, to the map layouts and random encounters, very little remains the same between two playthroughs. This is part of the beauty of the game, forcing…

What is the best way to create and use a struct with only one instantiation in the system? Yes, this is necessary, it is the OpenGL subsystem, and making multiple copies of this and passing it around

Why do mathematicians enjoy proving the same results in different ways?

JavaScript Library for Google Sheets/Microsoft Excel Online through sheet2api. https://sheet2api.com/ - GitHub - odwyersoftware/sheet2api-js: JavaScript Library for Google Sheets/Microsoft Excel On...

Thousands of foreign moderators keep the worst content off Facebook but receive little support for the traumatic work. Could that change?

This article covers the outcomes of research performed in 2019 on how engineers at Google debug production issues, including the types of tools, high-level strategies, and low-level tasks that engineers use in varying combinations to debug effectively. It…

For the second time in as many days, former Washington Post employee Brian Krebs has been caught out for making false accusations against an individual over last week's Twitter scams, with The&nbs...

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Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code. - semgrep/semgrep

A React implementation of Spectrum, Adobe’s design system. Spectrum provides adaptive, accessible, and cohesive experiences for all Adobe applications.

Let's catch on some non-coronavirus research today with an interesting approach against a very bad disease, metastatic colon cancer. This new paper (from groups at Virginia Tech and Wake Forest) adds to our understanding of something that's been noticed for…

By chopping up large numbers into smaller ones, researchers have rewritten a fundamental mathematical speed limit.

MineSweeper implemented in CSS + HTML using the Space Toggle trick (no JavaScript!) - propjockey/css-sweeper

A business model that seemed marginal before the coronavirus pandemic now looks like the future of restaurants, Anna Wiener writes.