Sharon Weinberger commends a book on how a film inspired the United States to develop technology to capture everyone’s every move.

A previous post discussed a find of a Northern Song dynasty Chinese coin from England whose context suggested that it may have been a genui...

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Sky News speaks to Gary Numan about artist revenue from streaming as a Parliamentary inquiry looks into the economics.

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Do surgeries work? Most of us assume they do, but is there any scientific evidence that they do? In this episode, I talk to Dr Ian Harris who is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of New South Wales in Australia. He is a practicing orthopedic…

Today, we’re launching our first microcontroller-class product: Raspberry Pi Pico. Priced at just $4, it is built on RP2040, a brand-new chip developed right here at Raspberry Pi. Whether you’re looking for a standalone board for deep-embedded development…

This was a multipurpose hole.

Apgar's simple, standardized score helped decrease the startlingly high infant mortality rate

My (shaky) understanding of this is that Golang's network stack attempts to parse HTTP headers as ~UTF-8 even though everyone else treats them as ASCII. If correct, this enables quite a range of interesting attacks on both clients and servers. twitter.co…

Minty chemical in catniplike plant activates their opioid systems—and acts as a mosquito repellent

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The number of undergrads in colleges and universities dropped in the fall, but the decline of men in college was more the decline among women

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Twitter has locked the account of China's U.S. embassy for a tweet that defended China's policy towards Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, which the U.S. social media platform said violated its stand against "dehumanizing" people.

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Long term readers of this blog will know our devotion to using container-based technology, especially Docker, to significantly improve software quality through repeatable builds. In the Autumn/fall of 2020, Microsoft introduced a Visual Studio Code (VSCode)…