As annual floods return to Italy's canal city of Venice, a newly installed flood barrier manages to keep the rising waters at bay -- a success hailed as vital to its tourism recovery

When some present or future markets are either imperfect or incomplete, the selfish motivations of individual agents may (but not necessarily) lead to…

Why did all major software companies settle on parallel career tracks? To keep engineering managers from developing loyalty to engineers.

When people perform a ritual while consuming your product, they will enjoy and pay much more for it (e.g. 74% more for the same chocolate).

Help people find what they need on your website. Add a customizable search box to your web pages and show fast, relevant results powered by Google.

An indictment was unsealed today charging John David McAfee with tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney D.…

The year 2020 is unlikely to be marked with particular fanfare in Liberia, but it was 200 years ago, on 31 January 1820, that 88 African American men, women and children boarded a ship in New York Harbor with the intention of creating a colony in Africa where…

In an interview, Stephen Pyne, a fire historian and emeritus professor at Arizona State University, discusses the wildfires in California and steps that can be taken to help prevent them in the future.

AT&T stops connecting new DSL users; only 28% of AT&T territory has full fiber.

Are new Apple speakers and headphones imminent?

Kakoune is a (fairly) young modal code editor that has matured for as long and as well as a good red wine. It places multiple-selections, operability and interactivity at the heart of its distinctive characteristics. It provides users with an efficient and…

A collection of resources and posts to help people understand compression algorithms.

This unofficial extension integrates Draw.io (also known as diagrams.net) into VS Code. - hediet/vscode-drawio

Americans should not have to rely on whistleblowers to reveal our government is targeting us for unconstitutional surveillance behind a shield of secrecy. Nor should executive branch bureaucrats be

We’d all like life to be simpler. But we also don’t want to sacrifice our options and capabilities. Tesler’s law of the conservation of complexity, a rule from design, explains why we can’t have both. Here’s how the law can help us create better products…

At a time when so many black Americans, Indigenous peoples, people of color, and white allies are protesting at systemic racism, we'd like to highlight a different story of marginalized people speaking truth to power on behalf of their most basic human rights.…

Killed by Google is the Google Graveyard. A full list of dead products killed by Google in the Google Cemetery.