An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang and can still be observed today, Sir Roger Penrose has said, as he received the Nobel Prize for Physics. Sir Roger, 89, who won the honour for his seminal work proving that black holes exist, said he had found…

I’m a fan of physical, tactile buttons that provide visual feedback. I realize the current trend favors capacitive touch, but I love individual buttons I can find by feel. And one of the best…

In recent months, Tesla has faced repeated complaints from customers about quality control issues. But a loose roof is a new one.

We rebuild the core behaviour of 'jq' using standard Haskell combinators
and optics

A former Kickstarter employee who says she was fired for helping to organize her co-workers just released an oral history podcast project about the drive to start one of the first unions at a tech startup.

In 2001, Microsoft's former CEO— Steve Ballmer— was quoted by the online tech news publication, The Register, saying: Linux is a

Whenever I think about what did the most damage to internet culture over the past ten years, xkcd 1357 comes out on top. Not Twitter. Not Facebook. This simple comic.

Virtual Meetups through Jitsi. Contribute to capnmidnight/Calla development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Monty Hall problem’s solution is obvious if you start with a weird version of it.

Despite the conventional wisdom, a new study shows picking up the subtleties of grammar in a second language does not fade until well into the teens

One of the biggest challenges when writing code to implement deep learning networks is getting all of the tensor (matrix and vector) dimensions to line up properly. This article describes a new library called TensorSensor that clarifies exceptions by augmenting…

Political ads will be banned indefinitely after polls close on Nov. 3 and the company plans new steps to limit misinformation about the results.

In study, stimulating sound and touch together molds the brain, reduces tinnitus

I’m excited to announce Swift Algorithms, a new open-source package of sequence and collection algorithms, along with their related types.

Less than 10 per cent of the plastics we’ve used have been recycled. A new documentary reveals why