This week, we continue our four(and a half)-part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb, addendum) look at pre-modern iron and steel production. Last week, we looked at how a blacksmith reshapes our iron from a spo…

Last Resort Font. Contribute to unicode-org/last-resort-font development by creating an account on GitHub.

A new study finds that incumbent parties lose votes after their citizens get online

The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 was awarded to World Food Programme (WFP) "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger…

A step-by-step playbook for the skill of the future

NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality.

Finance journalism isn’t known for its writerly voices. Matt Levine, the author of Money Stuff, is an oddball exception.

Scientific inquiry once flourished in the Arabic world. Why did it disappear? On the rise and fall of the Golden Age of Arabic science. 

Microsoft employees also have options to relocate across the US or internationally

Memory safety vulnerabilities represent one of the biggest threats to Internet security. As such, we at ISRG are interested in finding ways to make the most heavily relied-upon software on the Internet memory safe. Today we’re excited to announce that we’re…

Fortran has ruled scientific computing, but Julia emerged for large-scale numerical work.

Genomic studies show interbreeding goes back at least half a million years

The goggles could let handlers direct their dogs from a safe distance, the army says.

SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, xDC replica...

Apple has been facing a lot of heat lately regarding its walled garden policies. This week the stove got turned up another notch. Not only did a...