Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception.

Why hasn't new technology made us more productive than it has?

You want to be productive. Software wants to help. But even with a glut of tools claiming to make us all into taskmasters, we almost never master our tasks.

In “Full Employment”, my July 2020 column, I wrote, “I am an AI skeptic. I am baffled by anyone who isn’t. I don’t see any path from continuous improvements to the (ad…

The supreme court’s refusal to hear Craig Murray’s appeal against his unprecedented conviction for ‘jigsaw identification’ means the British state is now effectively credentialising journalists. Only corporate journalists will be safe from state retribution.

Every component in Crossrail, London’s new underground train network, will be digitally tracked via an intricate 3-D model

A collaborative Whiteboard powered by the [matrix] protocol and infrastucture. - toger5/TheBoard

Lets think about queries as a function. In a sense that a function takes an input and produces an output. Queries operates on relations or…

The amount of ammonium nitrate that blew up at Beirut port last year was one fifth of the shipment unloaded there in 2013, the FBI concluded after the blast, adding to suspicions that much of the cargo had gone missing.

People have spent a year glued to screens, but now the attention boom is turning to bust

Why is English spelling so weird and unpredictable? Don’t blame the mix of languages; look to quirks of timing and technology

Bezos' Blue Origin protested SpaceX deal, but GAO said NASA didn't break any laws.

A minimal new SSH client for Mac OS 7/8/9. Contribute to cy384/ssheven development by creating an account on GitHub.

Contribute to langjam/langjam development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you’re a programmer, there’s a good chance you noticed the node.js left-pad fiasco of a few weeks back that temporarily broke most of the npm ecosystem.
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Restaurant prices in the 19th century (followed by 20th, below) Note: Until the mid-19th century prices were often quoted in shillings and pence, or in Spanish dollars. One Spanish bit = 12½¢; One …