Exploration of Balamku (Cave of the Jaguar God) reveals ancient religious practices—and may hold clues to the rise and fall of the Maya empire.

Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy Hellerstein & Alvaro, arXiv 2019 The CALM conjecture (and later theorem) was first introduced to the world in a 2010 keynote talk at PODS. Beh…

This PEP proposes adding merge (|) and update (|=) operators to the built-in dict class.

Version 12.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, including the core specification, annexes, and data files. This version adds 554 cha...

Salem’s Rich Benoit just wanted to fix his Tesla. He ended up becoming a YouTube star.

On average, three people read an academic paper. At least 100,000 have read this—and a lot of them haven't taken it very well.

One year ago, we received a contract as a PDF file. It was digitally signed. We looked at the document - ignoring the "certificate is not tr...

To celebrate 60 years of NASA, the Google Arts & Culture Lab explored NASA's archive of 127,000 historic images stretching back to 1915, and analyzed them using machine learning - bringing surprising and interactive results.

Automatically fix programs by leveraging existing patches from other projects and similar code snippets from the faulty project. - xgdsmileboy/SimFix

From Double Rainbow Guy to the Ellen Selfie to the Dress, let’s take a pseudoscientific journey through the past nine years of internet history to determine the single best day to be online

Some young people are turning to more unorthodox methods of getting on the housing ladder.

SOME MAJOR TECH JOURNALS ARE STILL SENDING DATA DIRECTLY TO FACEBOOK (Even when you’re not logged in or don’t have a Facebook account) @verge is firing a pixel to FB, and sending your browsing data to them (and a bunch of other tech companies), on its story…

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A simple explanation of how they work and how to implement one from scratch in Python.