Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism

An eminent astrophysicist argues that signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life have appeared in our skies. What’s the evidence for his extraordinary claim?

A single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other chat networks. You can search, snooze, or archive messages. And with a unified inbox, you’ll never miss a message again.

The release of Apple Silicon based Macs at the end of last year generated a flurry of news and some surprises at the machine’s performance.

Tools for thought. An extensible alternative to Markdown. - GitHub - breck7/scroll: Tools for thought. An extensible alternative to Markdown.

Introducing new no-cost RHEL programs for small production deployments and enterprise development teams.

Introducing new no-cost RHEL programs for small production deployments and enterprise development teams.

In October, the popular and famous archivist tool youtube-dl was taken down by GitHub due to a DMCA request by the Recording Industry Association of America. I posted a detailed analysis explaining …

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One more year in Fediverse passed. Let's have a look at what we have achieved, new projects that appeared and things that happened in 2020

Learn about cicadas, specifically Magicicada

Since 2007, artist Walead Beshty has been cleverly using FedEx’s shipping infrastructure to create a series of artworks. He constructs glass objects that fit exactly into FedEx’s shipping boxes and then ships them to galleries and muse

Pai killed net four years of handouts to Big Telecom are over.

Nature - From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed.

Apple is proud of its new top-end headphones. And they are very good. But, even discounting the high price, you shouldn’t buy them

After 4 months of waiting, that is the response I got from Widevine, Google’s DRM for web browsers, regarding a license agreement. For the last 2 years I’ve been working on a web browser that now cannot be completed because Google, the creators of the open…

Last month we reported that a huge vertical farming operation near Copenhagen in Denmark recently completed its first harvest. That setup uses hydroponics, but the veggies grown in Vertical Field urban farming pods take root in real soil.

A glimpse into a more civilized (yet challenging) tool in the JavaScript ecosystem

Background Upper respiratory tract infections are reportedly more frequent and more severe in individuals with lower vitamin D levels. Based on these findings, it has been suggested that vitamin D can prevent or reduce the severity of COVID-19.

Methods We…

Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite - lmatteis/torrent-net