Greenland's ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests.

Communications Earth & Environment - Glacier retreat is the main process behind Greenland Ice Sheet dynamic mass loss over the past three decades, according to an analysis of discharge...

Over the past several years there's been a welcome trend in NLP projects to be broadly multi-lingual. However, even when many languages are supported, there's a few that tend to be left out. One of these is Japanese. Japanese is written without spaces, and…

The centuries-old offering was nestled inside an underwater stone box.

The series of posts about so called benign data races stirred a lot of controversy and led to numerous discussions at the startup I was working at called Corensic. Two bastions formed, one claiming…

God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again. I have so much stuff to do. Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting…

These are the principles that guide our mission to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the web.

Some thoughts on Mozilla for people who don’t know Mozilla.

UPDATE: I have received all my data and a full refund, and I am now self-hosting my website. I no longer have any beef with John O'Nolan and Ghost. I wish them all the best.

Kenneth Iverson’s 1964 language, APL, won him the Turing Award. His award lecture, Notation as a Tool of Thought, argued that better notations would lead people to deeper insights about mathematics. He provided a number of examples ranging across linear algebra…

Learning Rust is… an experience. An emotional journey. I’ve rarely been more frustrated than in my first few months of trying to learn Rust.
What makes it worse is that it doesn’t matter how much p...

A fungus growing near the Chernobyl site was thriving on nuclear radiation thanks to radiosynthesis, using melanin to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy. Scientists are exploring whether its radiation-absorbing properties could be used to protect…

In Independence Day speech, PM Modi said in the upcoming 1000 days nearly 6 lakh Indian villages will be connected with optical fibre.

Write code that's compatible with how your brain works.

Studies of the energy-harvesting proteins in primitive cells suggest that key features of photosynthesis might have evolved a billion years earlier than scientists thought.

Classes previously only available to Amazon employees will now be available to the community.