For the past three years, I've been participating in adding just-in-time compilation (JIT) to CRuby. Now, CRuby has the method-based just-in-time compiler (MJIT), which improves performance for

A meeting about annotation services and software shows how new tools may be on the horizon, and reminds us that our audiences are likely to be the heaviest users once these emerge.

Tesla has started to deliver new Model S and Model X vehicles in the UK with a grabbing stick after...

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Author of Survival of the Richest Douglas Rushkoff explains why he refuses to be autotuned in the face of technosolutionism and the rise AI. Recorded on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at All Tech Is Human's Responsible Tech Mixer at Betaworks in New York City.…

GPUs started out as devices meant purely for graphics rendering, but their highly parallel nature made them attractive for certain compute tasks too. As the GPU compute scene grew over the past cou…

Static extension methods for Java. Contribute to rogerkeays/fluent development by creating an account on GitHub.

For cyclists, it’s a drag when you don’t shave your legs.

The Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate affirmative action hits workplaces as diversity initiatives face pressure from supporters and skeptics.

:zap: Optimizing Python code by implementing a C++ extension - szabolcsdombi/optimization-demo

The Wikimedia Foundation is excited to announce the update to our license to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, one of the main changes of our recent Terms of Use update, which brings the…

Renewables and storage are saving Texans money as temperatures soar and coal and natural gas power plants fail.

Trisha summarizes the advantages of trunk-based development (as opposed to branch-based development) in this blog post.

It’s easy to be sceptical about the idea of ‘destiny’, but no one could deny the serendipity between Charles Deutsch’s initials and the fact that he became famous for his aerodynamic vehicle designs. And this Panhard Le Mans prototype being sold on 6 June…