Everyone knows raising kids takes up a lot of your time. And anyone who knows about starting startups will agree that startups also take up a lot of your time. This creates a conflict for anyone doing both. But how much of a conflict is there? How much do…

Widely circulating coronavirus variants and persistent hesitancy about vaccines will keep the goal out of reach. The virus is here to stay, but vaccinating the most vulnerable may be enough to restore normalcy.

The logic behind using nerve agents in the Skripal and Navalny cases was that the target could be poisoned through...

Teams are no longer for life and it is breeding an emptiness that won’t be fixed once we’re back in the workplace

Dr Fill , a computer program, has just won one of the most prestigious crossword competitions in the US.

I understand the classic UNIX Magic poster by Gary Overacre was distributed at past USENIX conferences, and I’ve known of it for years but now in confinement, I’ve decided I want one to hang in my ...

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Say you receive an email notification that a service is crashing just after your last code change deploys. The crash happens in only 0.1 percent of the servers where it runs. But you’re at a large-…

grafar is a JavaScript library for creating visualizations on the web, with 3D support via WebGL. Built for mathematical plotting, but also can also handle data visualization.

Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class, and there was a semester-long factorization contest that we could participate in. I implemented a distributed multiple polynomial quadratic sieve (MPQS) for the Mac, and I needed a cluster of computers to…

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The Apple Watch may gain the ability to measure blood pressure, blood glucose, and blood alcohol levels, according to newly-revealed information...

Wormhole lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires.

Some ideas on sound visualization.