The 19th-century physicist Hermann von Helmholtz compared his progress in solving a problem to that of a mountain climber “compelled…

Open source Python framework for rapid development of applications
that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps.

More challenging projects every programmer should try.

The GNOME project turned 23 this year, and despite equally persistent rumors to the contrary, it's still alive and kicking. Just how alive, though?

While music and design may not seem to go hand in hand at first glance, a giant mile-long xylophone certainly fits the bill for both. After all, it’s likely the only instrument on the planet ...

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Lock-free programming is a challenge, not just because of the complexity of the task itself, but because of how difficult it can be to penetrate the subject in the first place. I …

Of 18,000 backdoored servers, hackers followed up on only a few dozen.

He was a gentleman and a spy, though he would have stoutly denied that the two could coexist.

Nancy Floyd began taking a self-portrait each morning in 1982 and sustained the practice on and off for nearly four decades.

A paper describing the death of a young woman trying to lose weight by consuming Herbalife® products has been withdrawn after the company threatened to sue the journal.

Deepen your understanding of AES implementation using golang.

A long string of projects has shown how new large-format extrusion systems are making the process of 3D printing boats standard practice.

Galene is a free and open source self-hosted WebRTC videoconference server

A Princeton-led team of physicists have discovered that, under certain conditions, interacting electrons can create what are called “topological quantum states,” which, has implications for many technological fields of study, especially information technology.

Iceberg A68a has been on a slow journey toward cataclysm in South Georgia Island, in the southern Atlantic

by Jean-Louis Gassée