One of the best uses of lidar technology is for mapping. With lidar, you get a 3D model of everything around you. All it takes to make a 3D map of the world is to line up lidar scans taken at different places. The process of lining them up, however, is not…

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

Sound and its reception are crucial for reproduction, survival, and population maintenance of many animals. In insects, low-frequency vibrations facilitate sexual interactions, whereas noise disrupts the perception of signals from conspecifics and hosts.…

The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer, and cheaper. Ten years and $36 billion later, the system is an unholy mess: Inside a digital revolution gone wrong. A joint investigation…

When it comes to workplace organizing, there's no such thing as a “privileged” worker. You’re either with your coworkers or you’re against them.

Civil Rights, Criminal Justice and Homeland Security

Apple keep insisting that only a “small number of customers have problems” with the MacBook keyboards. That’s bollocks. This is a huge issue, it’s getting worse not better, …

The H-1B program allows employers in the United States

It's not common for a rewrite to be something that warrants an article, but, this is one of the exceptions. Over the past few years, parts of Dolphin's video core have seen renovations to make way for new features, but a fundamental problem remained. Dolphin's…

Posted by Ian Beer, Google Project Zero TL;DR A locking bug in the XNU virtual memory subsystem allowed violation of the preconditions ...

Forth has been called lots of things and it was something that I figured we could easily unikernelize so I dove into it. I think it's safe to say I've never written any production Forth nor do I see myself doing so but having said that - let's begin!<

Honestly, who's got the time?

This morning, I spoke with a good friend who lives in France. He started a business with his wife to develop a web-based…

Source code: https://github.com/Adam13531/keyiano I coded everything as quickly/hackily as possible. 😢

If you want to see this in action, I streamed myself doing typing tests for about 3½ hours here: https://youtu.be/aL-RxFCNwi4 (video was streamed live…

A team of former NSA cyber spies helped the United Arab Emirates break into the iPhones of at least 10 media figures, Reuters finds

Lyft jumped on its first day of trading, but investors who bought the stock were mostly losing money.

The MSX computer standard was big in both Japan and Brazil. But despite a sizable cult, it may be the most obscure part of Microsoft’s history. Here’s why.

Whether moving freight or people, rail is far more energy efficient and less polluting than other transportation modes. And it could get even cleaner.