A call-by-call look at context switch logging with the Event Tracing for Windows API.

MIT engineers created a carbon-cement supercapacitor that can store large amounts of energy. Made of just cement, water, and carbon black, the device could form the basis for inexpensive systems that store intermittently renewable energy, such as solar or…

Exact line rendering of smooth surfaces is harder than anyone would think

A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful - jj-vcs/jj

Over and over, I look at games that are part of “systems”: the Sega System 1, the Hyper Neo Geo 64, the CAVE CV1000. But there ain’t no rule that says you ha...

Note that this is a pre-release. Feedback is welcome #2802.

After a five year hiatus we're back with a GitHub organization, with new admins and new maintainers who have brought a great deal of...

What can the old philosophical problem known as “the problem of induction” tell us about how contemporary philosophers conceive of science?

First claimed successful replication of LK-99

Accomplished by a team at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and posted 30 minutes ago.

Why this is evidence:
The LK-99 flake slightly levitates for both orientations of the magnetic field, meaning…

The Menominee tribe of Wisconsin has sustainably harvested its woods for nearly 170 years, providing a model for foresters worldwide. Amid climate change and other threats to the forest, the tribe continues to follow a traditional code: Let the healthy trees…

Laced across the cold depths of the world's oceans is a network of multimillion-dollar cables, which have become the vital connections of our online lives.

More or less the title this time, but first, a story about SIMD. There are threelevels of understanding how SIMD works (well, at least I am level 3 at the moment):

ar5iv offers a modern web view for arXiv's preprints. An open community resource, on a quest to a full collection of high-quality documents.

This time, believe the hype.