Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut, was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965 – an experience that almost killed him

It might sound crazy, but it’s true: The heavens cast their wrath and fury on the ships more than on the fishes.

Go can be used to program in a functional style, previously I’ve written about how we can use this to implement Continuation Passing Style…

I stopped sleeping when I was 18. I’d just arrived at college, having moved from a tiny village to a big city for the first time in my life. London was loud and busy. I was staying in a dorm with a load of people I didn’t know. There was a hospital nearby…

My university just announced that it’s dumping Blackboard, and there was much rejoicing. Why is Blackboard universally reviled? There’s a standard story of why "enterprise software" sucks. If you’ll bear with me, I think this is best appreciated by talking…

Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Turkey has blocked access to social media and messaging platforms in the southern cities of Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa and Hatay, as the ...

Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a dire toll on American society.

Major countries that are promising to curtail funding for fisheries are nevertheless increasing handouts for their seafood industries.

JPMorgan Chase leads race to complete deal before end of November

What should have been a mere embarrassment for Switzerland’s second-largest bank has ended up as something far more significant.

In recent years instagram.com has seen a lot of changes — we’ve launched stories, filters, creation tools, notifications, and direct…

SandDance, the beloved data visualization tool from Microsoft Research, has been re-released as an open source project on GitHub.

The Uber Go Style Guide. Contribute to uber-go/guide development by creating an account on GitHub.

"One simply cannot fear Facebook more than god."

A Hacker News lookalike written in Python/Django, powering https://news.python.sc - sebst/pythonic-news

We recently designed a new system to manage secret information safely – from the keys that we use to sign your Mastercard transactions, to credentials for external services.

The Peacemaker missile's navigation suite featured the most precise and complex self-contained gyro system ever built. It had 19,000 individual parts.