This is a government agency built on fear and intended to engender fear.

Researchers have discovered that a fasting-mimicking diet could be more effective at treating some types of cancer when combined with vitamin C. In studies on mice, researchers found that the combination delayed tumor progression in multiple mouse models…

Even the ‘successful’ contact tracing apps have fallen well below expectations, and incapable of discovering their effectiveness.

Georgetown joins Princeton among just a handful of elite institutions to make concessions to students

Curfews, sports, and understanding kids’ brain chemistry have all helped dramatically curb substance abuse in the country.

Unity's development tools and engine are far and away the most common way to
build applications for VR and AR today. Previously, we've made it possible to
export web-based experiences [https://blog.mozvr.com/unity-webxr-exporter-update/] from
Unity. Today…

Scientific Reports - ‘Alexandrian’ glass confirmed by hafnium isotopes

Fred Harris talks to Roger Wilson about the technical aspects of the Acorn Archimedes A305. Also features footage from Zarch by David Braben. Produced by the BBC. Digitised from VHS Video Tape by The Centre for Computing History.

On top of Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics bringing other media engine improvements and much better 3D graphics support, another exciting element of the next-generation Intel graphics is now confirmed: GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding!

I wrote a command line script called noprocrast. This script updates /etc/hosts to make distracting websites unreachable from my machine.

0xC45 blog

I found a curious little bug and I’m interested in who you think should take responsibility for it. My mobile network provider sent me this message: I clicked on the link, and got this error …

Animal research indicates that a combination of physical activity and sensory enrichment has the largest and the only sustaining effect on adult neuroplasticity. Dancing has been suggested as a human homologue to this combined intervention as it poses demands…

In the 1980s, a quiet hedge fund located above a Marxist bookstore launched a revolution that would change finance (and give us Amazon).

Crypto is often treated like a black art only anointed experts can hope to wield safely. It's not. There are laws, and we can learn them.

We have already covered here some apps that were caught accessing users’ clipboard thanks to a new feature of iOS 14, but that’s not all. The next major update to Apple’s mobile operating system also indicates when an app is using the camera or microphone…

A deep dive into Dart language and library changes related to null safety.

Introduction

Private laboratories and health agencies are swamped, leading to communication and technical breakdowns, as well as extensive delays for results.

TL;DR: DevOps doesn’t have to be all work and no play. I built 5 stupid (but fun!) GitHub actions… because why not?
The full code for these actions can all be found in this GitHub repo. I encourage you to fork and/or add issues/PRs with impractical actions…