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Without major platform overhauls, the creator’s gold rush will come to an end

  We are pleased to announce that Firefox 87 will introduce a stricter, more privacy-preserving default Referrer Policy. From now on, by default, Firefox will trim path and query string ...

I’ve made a Cursed USB-C 2.0 device. It behaves differently based on the orientation of the plug.

Nature Medicine - Analysis of data from the COVID Symptom Study app reveals fatigue, headache, dyspnea and anosmia as key attributes of long COVID, with those experiencing five or more symptoms...

Following Audi's lead, the Volkswagen brand VW no longer intends to develop new combustion engines. Further developments of the existing units would suffice, according to CEO Ralf Brandstätter, before VW is to become mostly electric. In an exclusive interview…

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

Pipes has been dead since 2015 or so, but I used it for a long time and it was essential to my daily news intake, so I’ve been building a pe...

The red macroalgae (seaweed) Asparagopsis spp. has shown to reduce ruminant enteric methane (CH4) production up to 99% in vitro. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of Asparagopsis taxiformis on CH4 production (g/day per animal), yield…

Arachnids join army of creatures scrambling to reach higher ground as waters rise on Australia’s east coast

Go is one of the most prominent general-purpose programming languages nowadays. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Adobe, to name a few, have been using the language extensively. It’s the language of choice behind multiple cloud computing projects such…

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has repeatedly meddled in the central bank’s activities and over the years traders have dumped the lira.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

I have reported on safety lapses at elite U.S. labs. There is no reason to believe they aren’t happening at labs in other countries as well.

A lot of flatkill.org’s statements are made to incite fear in the Linux community. Given that all Flatpak packages and application build noscripts are available and able to be edited by anyone, the appropriate response is to educate on why this is a problem…

In August of 2019, I published research from now-defunct clickstream data provider, Jumpshot, showing that 50.33% of all Google searches ended without a