Time, as some have said, is nature's way of keeping everything from
happening at once. In today's highly concurrent computers, though, time
turns out not to be enough to keep events in order; that task falls to an
extensive set of locking primitives and…

Two of Canada's provincial privacy officers say that they're still unable to release a full report about last year's security breach at LifeLabs because the company has gone to court to stop the release of information obtained during the investigation into…

Today I’m publishing tihle, a new emulator
targeting TI graphing calculators (currently only the 83+, but maybe others
later). There’s rather a lot to say about it, but here I will discuss the
motivation for a new emulator and the state of
the art followed…

One year after pledging to give away most of her fortune, Ms. Scott, an author and the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, announced that she had donated to causes supporting women, L.G.B.T. rights and racial equality.

GitHub Sponsors is a step forward, but it's far from a panacea. I propose an scalable alternative funding model for open-source software called sponsor pools.

While astronomers look for a ninth planet to explain orbits in the outer Solar System, a duo explores the possibility that the mystery object is a primordial black hole.

The CEOs talked a lot about America and its possibilities, but it is undeniable that their actions are undermining what they claim to celebrate.

Images of the dwarf planet’s far side are revealing possible signs of liquid water, mysterious shards of ice and new theories for the frigid world’s birth.

Posted by Philip Sun, Software Engineer, Google Research Suppose one wants to search through a large dataset of literary works using queries that r...

Fernando Pessoa created more than a hundred alter egos, all of whom he gave complex biographies and distinctive styles of their own.

Luckysheet is an online spreadsheet like excel that is powerful, simple to configure, and completely open source. - dream-num/Luckysheet

One of our favorite anecdotes that illustrates just how hard it is to get people to read the docs comes from an unexpected source: Van Halen. The...

I was mistaken in my original (now deleted) tweet and have been corrected by a few people

Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund the refund happens as you’d expect. I don’t know where I got the idea that it worked the way I thought it did

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Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. His new book, Science…

There are many versions of Bill Withers, the steady, complicated singer who died last week from a heart attack, at age 81. There is the […]

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A platinum sanctuary for old software of the classic Mac OS era. Rediscover Mac treasures of the past!