A photo survey of the blackboards of mathematicians.

i was leaked a cached copy of the Google/NASA paper claiming quantum supremacy. it’s latin extended only, and missing figures, tables, and ligatures—and i’ve not done physics for ten years—so it was a little hard to decipher (heh) but i have some thoughts…

The FTC’s antitrust probe is giving Facebook’s competitors a chance to air complaints.

In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

Nature - Drug-resistant bacteria are gaining a stronghold in developing countries where meat production has soared.

As part of its commitment to US economic growth, Apple today confirmed that its newly redesigned Mac Pro will be manufactured in Austin, Texas.

In a previous post, I showed how Kafka can be used as the persistent storage for an embedded key-value store, called KCache. Once you have a key-value store, it can be used as the basis for other m…

The first time, it was an accident.

Woman, 25, diagnosed with methemoglobinemia as doctors say numbing agent for toothache that contained benzocaine to blame

Announcing .NET Core 3.0 We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of…

A woman who was severely burned in a domestic violence attack in Vermont is hoping for a second face transplant after doctors recently discovered tissue damage that likely will lead to the loss of her donor face.

Below is a message that I sent to all Chef employees today about recent events affecting Chef.

Big technological shifts have always empowered reformers. They have also empowered bigots, hucksters, and propagandists.

Texas Instruments has enjoyed a near monopoly on graphing calculators for nearly three decades. But new technology may be threatening the company’s empire.

A game for learning CSS grid layout

This is pretty much a follow-up to this meta announcement by SE. Ideally that announcement would have resolved the issue, but the language in it was vague and evasive, and there have been no