A definitive new study dispels the myth of the Silicon Valley wunderkind.

"Flights to Rome" is a data visualization project that explores the idiom, "all roads lead to Rome". The outcome is both information visualization and data art and unveils mobility infrastructures on land and in the air.

The days of the one-size-fits-all monolithic database are behind us, and developers are using a multitude of purpose-built databases.

Resources for real-time and historical information about the Slack service.

Applications for YC Winter 2019 are now open. Here are some helpful resources if you're thinking about applying.

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Old mice suddenly had "young" brains after receiving low doses of a THC compound found in marijuana. The discovery has huge potential for people with diseases like Alzheimer's — but doesn't mean you should light up.

A Japanese spacecraft has arrived at a diamond-shaped asteroid on a key fact-finding mission.

A month and change after I/O, Google convenes a meeting of a few small groups of journalists at an upscale Thai restaurant in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It’s an unusual locale for one of the world’s largest companies. The tables are cleared out to make…

I originally published this in May of last year in Idea Collector, one of my old blogs. Epistemic status: This is a quick write up of my personal experience wandering Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo last May. I'd be curious to learn how it compares to......

We often tout things like “Mastodon is based on open web protocols” as one of its advantages. I want to elaborate why exactly that’s a good thing.

To improve Messenger performance and add new features, we migrated more than 1 billion accounts to MyRocks, using two migration flows to ensure that ever single user was successfully moved over.

A year and a half after I was kicked out of Venezuela, I returned to find out how Venezuelans are holding on as the country falls apart and inflation makes buying a single cup of coffee nearly impossible.

Google has long been a member of the Linux Foundation, but at the relatively low Silver level. Today, the company is stepping up its commitment by becoming a Platinum sponsor — the highest level of membership the open-source nonprofit organization currently…

In Being No One, Metzinger () introduces an approach to the scientific study of consciousness that draws on theories and results from different disciplines, targeted at multiple levels of analysis. Descriptions and assumptions formulated at, for instance…

Early last year I started creating a little JIT language named Vaiven . It is a super minimal little language including objects, lists, con...

Our review of the Surface Book 2: why it's the perfect computer for gamers, developers, coders, designers and more. If you're looking for a MacBook alternative, this is it.

Even if you put everything into the right blue bins, a lot of plastics will end up in landfills and the ocean. Consumers can't solve this problem.