Harmless vacation photo or criminal content? Swiss federal police need to make this decision thousands of times per year.

In a previous post I outlined why programmers should strive to be good at one thing rather than everything. In this post I discuss how to ...

Earlier today, a new iPhone Boot ROM exploit, checkm8 (or Apollo or Moonshine), was published on GitHub by axi0mX, affecting the iPhone 4S through the iPhone X. The vulnerability was patched in devices with A12 and A13 CPUs. As of this writing, the iPhone…

With happiness harder to come by these days, people are grasping at any moment of joy they can get.

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Discover real success stories from large companies using Erlang, the BEAM VM and OTP to achieve outstanding scalability and reliability.

The retailer fell victim to the eroding power of shopping malls and said it would cease operations in 40 countries and close up to 178 stores in the U.S.

*Spaghetti sort* is an analog algorithm for sorting a sequence of numbers in linear time. This means that when you double the amount of numbers to be sorted, the time needed to sort those numbers only doubles, as well. That's a highly unusual property, with…

A showcase of problems once hard or impossible to solve with CSS alone, now made trivially easy with Flexbox.

What is the smallest number of Democrats that could have changed the outcome of the 2016 United States presidential election by relocating to another state? And where should they have moved?It turns out this question is a variant of the knapsack problem,…

I’m in the middle of three multi-month to a year projects right now: Writing a book Running a marathon Building a ...

Washington has expanded an initiative to promote mining of lithium, cobalt and other minerals in resource-rich countries.

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GitLab announced that KDE is adopting GitLab for use by its developers to further enhance infrastructure accessibility and encourage contributions.

Richard Stallman has had a rough month. This article is a decent summary of the events. In short: Stallman made some technically-correct-but-utterly-tactless comments on a private mailing list, most…

The last weeks and days have seen some erratic behaviour by Stack Exchange Inc., such as likely illegal changes to the content license and the firing of an upstanding community moderator with no

Viewport units in CSS sound great. If you want to style an element to take up the full screen height, you can just set height: 100vh and voila - you have a perfect fullscreen element, which resizes as the viewport changes! Sadly, this is not the case. 100vh…

During World War II, Luis W. Alvarez participated in the Allies’ development of radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, and of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. He then worked as an experimental physicist on cyclotrons, particle accelerators and bubble chambers…