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.

Library Extension helps you find library books, but it doesn’t work on Safari–yet. At WWDC 2020, Apple announced it was going to support Chrome-style browser extensions (the WebExtensio…

The chief executive of social media platform Parler, popular with American right-wing users but which virtually vanished after the U.S. Capitol riot, posted a brief message on the company's website. Parler's app, however, remains offline.

According to telemetry, LauncherOne has reached orbit! Everyone on the team who is not in mission control right now is going absolutely bonkers. Even the folks on comms are trying really hard not to sound too excited.

This is an OPL2 (Yamaha YM3812), Piano, and BAM rendering of the famous sea shanty "What would you do with a drunken sailor...". However, there really is no "official" noscript for this song because no one really knows who wrote it other than it is from the…

He is behind the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithms

Microsoft Teams isn't just there to make employees' lives easier. It's also there to give bosses data about so many things.

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

Two centuries before Einstein, Hume recognised that universal time, independent of an observer’s viewpoint, doesn’t exist

(4 min read) Batching things by function can skyrocket your productivity.

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