Just because we’ve lost our way doesn’t mean that we are lost forever. In the end, it’s not the failures that define us so much as how we respond.

I’m at PolyConf in Poland today, and I watched this super interesting talk by Leandro Pereira about Lwan, an ~8000 line of code web server. He talked about a bunch of the optimizations they’d done (improve CPU cache performance! be really careful about locking!).…

Assange and WikiLeaks did everything journalists should do by finding out important information about US government misdeeds and handing it over to the public

Main Menu - click above Man, thermometer, one legged stool & vat of nitro 1870 . Alfred Nobel chose Ardeer, in Ayreshire, as the ...

Stockholm and Bergen are among dozens of cities ditching trash cans in favor of vacuum chutes that woosh waste away through a series of underground pipes.

Color blindness is an inaccurate term. Most color-blind people can see color, they just don't see the same colors as everyone else. There ha...

Tried and tested beats new and marketed

Intel lost its drive to outperform. Intel's Blueprint was more about AMD and their competitors than about their new CPU.

System administrators (DevOps engineers or SREs or whatever your noscript) must deal with the operational aspects of computation, not just the theoretical aspects. Operations is where the rubber hits the road. As a result, operations people see things from a…

The cruise industry was hit hard by the pandemic, and no-sail orders put in place by some countries.

The Hydroflex made a 25-mile round-trip in Warwickshire, reaching speeds of up to 50 mph.

Modern technology has enabled the development and deployment of the pervasive and precise surveillance that may be slipping out of the control of the public.

Surfers raised alarm after once pristine waters caused major problems with eyesight, fevers and throat aches.

Science is objective. Scientists are not. Can an “iron rule” explain how they’ve changed the world anyway?

For its first two decades, the consumer internet was American - American companies, products, attitudes and laws set the agenda. That’s not so true anymore - there are more smartphones in China than in the USA and Western Europe combined. Software creation…

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A revolution in archaeology has exposed the extraordinary extent of human influence over our planet’s past and its future