On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee. Later that day and over the weekend, employees raised concerns about the circumstances of the separation. We took these concerns seriously. On Monday, January 11th, we

I’ve written before about predatory scientific journals: those fly-by-night venues that will publish nearly any submitted paper, however dreadful. Their motive is to get the thousands of doll…

E INK has confirmed with Good e-Reader that the company has developed a 2nd generation ACEP, which is Advanced Color E-Paper. They have a subset of the technology that utilizes the the codename E INK Gallery 4100. This technology is not going to be employed…

Financial maths library for risk-neutral pricing and risk - MarcusRainbow/QuantMath

bladeRF-wiphy is an open-source IEEE 802.11 compatible software defined radio VHDL modem If you like the bladeRF-wiphy project, please consider...

Let's discuss the environmental cost of bitcoin. Because despite all the push for sustainable and green investment in the tech sector, there's a giant smoldering Chernobyl sitting at the heart of Silicon Valley which a lot of investors would prefer you remain…

Climate scientists have estimated that #Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C. And this is just one of *hundreds* of other cryptocurrency networks that run on this apocalyptically wasteful set of ideas. (14/) nature.com/articles/s4155…

Nature Climate Change - Bitcoin is a power-hungry cryptocurrency that is increasingly used as an investment and payment system. Here we show that projected Bitcoin usage, should it follow the rate...

Enter Sandbox: Google's bid to take control of online privacy after the death of third-party cookies. What publishers and advertisers think.

A German data regulator fined an online laptop and electronic goods retailer €10.4 million (U.S. $12.7 million) for video-monitoring employees for at least two years without legal basis.

In this tool-assisted education video I create a raytracer from scratch.
The raytracer renders in 16-color VGA palette at 640x480 resolution.

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Teardown and analysis of electronics. Integrated circuit design analysis.

Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.