I'm a video game translator, and I love my job. It's odd work, sometimes stressful, sometimes bewildering, but it always provides interesting and inspiring challenges. Every project brings new words,...

Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity

We present a Material Point Method for visual simulation of baking breads, cookies, pancakes and similar materials that consist of dough or batter (mixtures of water flour, eggs, fat, sugar and leavening agents). We develop a novel thermomechanical model…

Let’s start with opium. That venerable poppy grew wild and natural after the retreat of the last Ice Age, across a broad band of territory stretching from

p5.Riso.js is a p5.js library for Risograph printing

We're here to help you dream up your next trip, figure out the details, and reserve experiences at over 3,600 facilities and 103,000 individual sites across the country.

A peek into the trials, wins and occasional defeats of tech work at BB, written for a community of developers equally interested in solving complex puzzles.

Adam Neumann reimagined the millennial workplace as a capitalist kibbutz, and so dazzled Wall Street that his company was valued at $47 billion. He spent lavishly, and pressed forward even as “the narrative of the unicorn was ending,” says an executive. Now…

Producer and Ableton Certified Trainer Yeuda Ben-Atar gets the Loop audience involved in an exercise to demonstrate his idea that even a random combination of melodic elements can be beautiful (or at least, musical) through repetition.

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Foveated rendering and compression can save computations by reducing the image quality in the peripheral vision. However, this can cause noticeable artifacts in the periphery, or, if done conservatively, would provide only modest savings. In this work, we…

When I lived in Vancouver, I was enthusiastic about SkyTrain, which combined high service levels with relatively low construction costs. At the time, the budget for the 12-kilometer Broadway subway…

In 2001, the internet’s premier file-sharing service Napster was shut down after just two years, leaving a giant vacuum in the ever-expanding peer-to-peer file-sharing space....

Adult performers say it has unfairly removed their accounts, despite no explicit images.

 I recently came across this fascinating world map while researching the history of the Jesuit missions in seventeenth century China . Appar...

Long ago, I wrote git-subtree
to work around some of my annoyances with git submodules. I've learned a lot
since then, and the development e...

Thinking back to the 2000s, I remember the decade of the 9/11 attacks, talk of peak oil, a blundering war in Iraq, and the massive financial crash of 2008. In 2010, the U.S. economy was still working its way back to health. Technology companies that are…

Updates: EFF letter, PIR’s update; IGP’s insider take; ICANN resolution; Ways to act, Reg essay x2, Ohashi, Tim Berners-Lee response; Letters from ISOC(😇), Ethos(🌈), and…

Build models better. Causal replaces spreadsheets with collaborative modeling in the browser.