A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that people have the right to surreptitiously record police officers at work in "public spaces" such as parks, agreeing with two local activists that the First Amendment takes precedence over a state law banning private…

Connecticut-based company LiquidPiston is developing a portable generator for the US Army that uses its X-Engine, a fresh and extremely powerful take on the rotary engine that'll deliver as much power as the Army's current-gen-set at one-fifth the size.

Do you have a habit of picking up books which you never quite get around to reading? That's tsundoku.

The Flanderization trope as used in popular culture. The act of taking a single (often minor) action or trait of a character within a work and exaggerating …

VC firms say they weren't aware Orion code had been backdoored

Two sources tell The Daily Beast that the president has expressed sympathy for the situation of Ross Ulbricht, who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware. - fulldecent/system-bus-radio

Create your own ML-powered opera song! by David Li with Google Arts &
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This June I started working on a new (fourth) edition of my book about aircraft computer models. Actually, I am finishing its first volume (“Preparations”). It describes how to prepare accurate ref…

January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all!

Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/16/facebook-takes-out-full-page-ads-to-attack-apple/

You can make a DIY air purifier in 30s. To test if it works, I generated smoke, and measured how well it removes tiny particles.

Have you ever experienced true novelty? Something so mind-altering that it questions your definition of what you’ve known to be true for so long. I imagine the first people to watch a film or see an airplane felt this. It’s an inexplicable energy that has…

Prepare yourself for a deep dive on useRef, when you should use it instead of useState, and real-world use cases.

This tutorial will guide you through writing the "Hello World" program in the C programming language. You'll use Unix-style terminal emulators and command-line tools to execute commands, Linux-style package managers to install programs and libraries, the…

Twitch announced on Wednesday that the words “simp,” “incel,” and “virgin” will no longer be allowed on the platform as long as they are used by streamers and commenters as insults.

The actual code for GWSL. And some prebuilt releases. - Opticos/GWSL-Source