Yale conservators and conservation scientists have found that the map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink.

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One of the most effective ways to really understand OOP is to see how the main OOP concepts are ultimately implemented at the low-level. This article uses this approach by describing how to implement OOP in the C programming language.

18-year-old Ewin Tang has proven that classical computers can solve the “recommendation problem” nearly as fast as quantum computers. The result eliminates one of the best examples of quantum speedup.

The large municipalities in the Netherlands plan to make wide use of a legislative amendment that will allow them to designate neighborhoods where investors won't be allowed to buy cheap and medium-priced homes and rent them out, NOS found after surveying…

MIT spinoff Infinite Cooling aims to reduce power plants’ significant water needs and to shrink the huge plumes of water vapor produced by their cooling towers. At-scale prototypes tested on MIT facilities have proven effective.

Reserving the right to be wrong.

“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter. [D.R.H.]

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The Linux world provides many tools and technologies around block devices, and almost weekly new options become available. In this article, we point at some recent developments in block devices and give ideas for debugging.

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Most of the advice leading to great results in life is boring. Also, it’s free and has forever been so. In my twenties, I believed that successful people hold secret knowledge leading to their success. I obsessed over “self-help porn”: books, videos, and…

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A billion years have vanished from the geological record – and over 152 years after this was first discovered, scientists can't agree on why.