A legal dispute in a tiny Texas town unexpectedly reveals how Chinese nationals can move money to the U.S. without drawing the attention of authorities in either country.

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The new high ground in space?

This research introduces an innovative approach to soilless cultivation, or hydroponics, by integrating electronic soil, or eSoil.

I was 9 years old. A revision of the notebook containing my first Z80 assembly language program

Once the province of utopian free-love communities, consensual non-monogamy is now the stuff of Park Slope marriages and prestige television.

My personal website.

Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure and designer of Datomic, is a software developer with over 30 years of experience in various domains. Rich has worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design, yield…

“I was profoundly disappointed in myself,” this professor emeritus writes

A growing field of research is challenging long-held assumptions about goats, pigs, and other farm animals

Let it snow() The code could definitely be golfed… function snow(io = stdout) h, w = displaysize(io) iob = IOBuffer() ioc = IOContext(IOContext(iob, io), :displaysize=>(h,w)) print(io, repeat("\n", h), "\e[", h, "A\e[1G") # new lines and…

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are intensifying their investigations into Apple's alleged...

A look at using Qt for mobile development in 2023

Last month, a peculiar cybersecurity incident derailed class at Washington-Liberty and prompted a police investigation that is ongoing. Around 10:10 a.m. on Nov. 30, police were dispatched to the school for "the late report of suspicious circumstances," says…

Since Google’s introduction of its Pixel 8 phones earlier this month, it has been interesting and a little amusing to me to read the reactions to its image manipulation tools. It feels like we have been asking the same questions every year — questions like…

Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt March 7, 2007

More thoughts on Open Source licensing and companies.

For some, nothing that beats the sweet, creamy, slightly baked flavour of British chocolate, while others find it an affront to their tastebuds. But why does it taste that way at all?

As the world grapples with the escalating impacts of climate change, our hopes rely on the innovation and implementation of technical solutions, particularly solar, as we scale toward annual deployments of 1 terawatt and beyond.

One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach t…