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

Chatmosphere is a fun and dynamic open source video chat. Ready to host it on your own server. For free.

Janet Yellen, Joe Biden's nominee for treasury secretary, suggested the administration could be tough on cryptocurrencies after huge price increases.

I like Sturgeon’s law for a lot of reasons. But most of all, I like it as a nudge to try harder to like things.

Python's f-strings provide a readable way to interpolate and format strings. They're readable, concise, and less prone to error than traditional string interpolation and formatting tools, such as the .format() method and the modulo operator (%). F-strings…

Standing athwart urban history, yelling Stop

In 1979, Michael Bennett set out to photograph the seaside resorts of North Wales. Local critics hated the results and Bennett’s work was lost … until now

In my previous two posts, I talked about Self as the language, and the system
which allows it to serialize objects into text format. Now let’s talk about
another big part of Self, which is the programming environment and the UI
toolkit that it is created…

Santi Ruiz welcomes Lakota America by Pekka Hämäläinen.

Google appears to be limiting the web privacy powers of W3C Privacy Interest Group by being the only member to vote “No” in giving PING the ability to block new technical specification with negative implications.

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