New work shows that neurons and other brain cells use DNA double-strand breaks, often associated with cancer, neurodegeneration and aging, to quickly express genes related to learning and memory.

Nature - Mass infections in wild birds pose a significant risk to vulnerable species, are hard to contain and increase the opportunity for the virus to spill over into people.

A gene called FMNL2 may explain why people with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, or obesity have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

Billionaire brothers John and Patrick Collison built Stripe into one of the world’s most-hyped, highest valued — and profitable! — startups, worth some $95 billion. Now they must stave off going from disruptor to disrupted.

ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple. ESPHome turns ESP32, ESP8266, and RP2040 microcontrollers into fully-featured smart home devices.

Kevin Kelly, a writer and speaker best known as a futurist, goes back in time to talk about his early travel years being a backpacker in Asia.

The encrypted-email company, popular with the security-conscious, has a plan to go mainstream.

Turn mouse events into art! Contribute to furkanonder/karbon development by creating an account on GitHub.

From A Mathematician’s Apology, G. H. Hardy, 1940:
"I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever a...

Virtual Graph Paper is a web application for creating drawings and illustrations on a virtual grid. You can use it right here in your browser. When you are done, your drawing can be downloaded as an SVG file.

It will take about three minutes to read this column. Whether it’s worth three minutes depends on me, of course. I will do my best. But it also depends on you, on your attitude to time and, perhaps…

A two-part story about how GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team rolled out Dependabot internally to track vulnerable dependencies and how GitHub tracks and prioritizes technical debt.

If you follow Gamefromscratch on Twitter, you may have already seen this tweet I put out last night about a blackmail demand that was made against our YouTube channel:First off, I really want to give a gigantic shout out to all of the people that helped get…

A century later, Nikola Tesla’s dream comes true

Databricks, Snowflake, and the end of an overhyped era.