I’ve spent the past several years working with functional programming languages
in my free time – primarily Haskell and OCaml. I love both languages but also
find aspects of each frustrating.
Haskell is terse and elegant with type classes providing a powerful…

SpaceX and @TMobile have been given emergency special temporary authority by the @FCC to enable @Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability to provide coverage for cell phones in the affected areas of Hurricane Helene.

The satellites have already…

How a modern AVX instruction shares a similar design with a 1985 blitter chip, by Arnaud Carré

SQLite on the edge.

Highly dependent on imported fossil fuels, soon to shutter its last nuclear plant, and slow to build out renewables, the world’s largest producer of advanced computer chips is heading toward an energy crunch.

Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that…

The Chrome Canary in the coal mine just went silent, as uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions can no longer be re-enabled via flags

Computers can be trained to exhibit pareidolia, the phenomenon of recognizing faces in objects

When children turn 13, they age out of the data protections provided by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Then, they become targets for data collection from data brokers that

sq data wrangler

The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act is being deliberated in both houses of Congress.

Ziggy: A JSON/YAML/TOML alternative.

The current theoretical model for the composition of the universe is that it's made of normal matter, dark energy and dark matter. A new University of Ottawa study challenges this.

A privacy respecting Linux-based European alternative to dominating mobile operating systems developed by Finnish company Jolla.

AIHawk aims to easy job hunt process by automating the job application process. Utilizing artificial intelligence, it enables users to apply for multiple jobs in a tailored way. - feder-cr/Jobs_App...

Or how I made CRC-32 calculations 18 times faster than Python, and 3 times slower than Python.

A young economist I know, Patrick DeJarnette, believes a much more radical change in currency is warranted. Here is what Patrick writes: Late one night I was curious how efficient the “penny, nickel, dime, quarter” system was, so I wrote a little script…