It might surprise you to find out how little evidence there is to support the idea that boosting students’ “grit”—their propensity…

What happens when 70 million people visit your joke site?

Applied Computer Science: On Murder Considered As STEM Field—using information theory to quantify the magnitude of Light Yagami’s mistakes in <em>Death Note</em> and considering fixes

Chinese technology company Huawei would have had free access to KPN's mobile network in the past and could eavesdrop on all conversations. De Volkskrant writes this based on a secret report from 2010 which their editorial staff reviewed. According to the…

This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities.
In a break from the usual GPS/Galileo, DNA and C++ posts, here is a bit on 5G and national security. It turns out that through PowerDNS and its parent company Open-Xchange, we know…

The official web demo of the Pangolin desktop enviroment, designed for dahliaOS, written in Flutter.

The fall of the Roman Empire wasn’t a tragedy for civilisation. It was a lucky break for humanity as a whole

When the U7 was completed in 1984, it was West Berlin’s longest underground line and the one with the greatest number of stations. Many of those stations, constructed at a time when the western hal…

Climate change, technology, disease and financial crises will pose big challenges for the world, an intelligence report concludes.

12-year-old J.J. Styles' local TV show was the predecessor to modern gaming culture decades before Twitch.

My experience starting at Authzed and setting up an M1 MacBook Pro.

Twitter went down Friday for many users, with thousands of people reporting problems with the social network site.

The signs on the street are a measure of how much authorities care about their citizens – and from stylish fonts to neon lights, Britain has a lot to learn from European cities which have used signage to enliven the urban landscape.

New reference footage from night vision monoculars (including the military standard PVS-14) demonstrates pretty conclusively that the supposed flying pyramid UFO actually looks exactly like a slightly out of focus light in the sky - quite possibly just a…

An algorithm for intelligently resizing images and an introduction to dynamic programming.

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Welcome to Yak Shaving School! As part of my MSc I'm reading a book about Data Analytics. So I've been chasing down quotes to find their origin. One paper had this popular quote in it (emphasis added): As with many rapidly emerging concepts, Big Data has…