Why China considers a covered eye to be dangerous. And why people still do it. From the winking owl to the Hong Kong protest eye patch.

Revenue and stats from my various revenue-generating side-projects.

An Open Letter to the Communications of the ACM 29 December, 2020 Dear CACM Editor, We are a group of researchers, industry experts, academics, and educators, writing with sadness and alarm about the increasing use of repressive actions aimed at limiting…

There are so many amazing Python libraries out there that it's hard to keep track of all of them. That's why we share with you our hand-picked selection of some top libraries.

The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.

The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence.

Thomas Becket, killed in Canterbury in 1170, was attached to a "little book", which may now have been found in Cambridge.

The Global Privacy Notice discusses how Personal Information is collected and used.

In this series we’re going to delve a bit into stack based virtual machines. First we’re going to see an overview, then we’ll build our own toy VM. Next, we’re going to see how what we’ll build maps to a real CPU. Finally, we’ll discuss the most famous of…

A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday dismissed Apple Inc's copyright infringement claims against a Florida startup whose software helps security researchers find vulnerabilities in Apple products including the iPhone.

The latest Edge Game Changers focuses on the birth of the Xbox

Nature Biotechnology - Emergency Use Authorizations for two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines represent a turning point in the pandemic. They also herald a new era for vaccinology.

The number of people with COVID-19 inside ICUs has broken records for 16 consecutive days.

Researchers say that these trees are evidence of early crop cultivation by ancient humans in Amazonia.

Learn 3D Computer Graphics programming by making a 3D software renderer from scratch.

Nashville police got a report 16 months before a bomb exploded in the city on Christmas that a man named in the blast was building a device in his RV.

Update: Since posting I've heard from >12 other crypto people that had DNS hijacked on @GoDaddy - all of them were either public figures or used their custom email domain when buying a @Ledger & were hit in the leak Most recent one happened <8 hrs ago This…

The first doses are due to be given on Monday, amid concern over rising coronavirus cases.