Lawmakers vote to make Spain the fourth European country to allow euthanasia, despite opposition.

Ron Powers, a mechanical engineer at Apple, turned a used van into a mobile laundromat and made it available for free to the homeless of Santa Cruz, California.

Editor's Note: In honor of last month's release of Frozen 2, we're doing something a little different today: a longform research paper by Arron Bowman, on who he believes are the true villains of the original Frozen movie. That's right: the rock trolls! Frozen’s…

Introducing NFTP, the world’s first Non-Fungible Toilet Paper. By Charmin.

We’re always looking for new ways to help you Enjoy the Go, whether you’re sitting on the toilet or participating in the crypto economy. So we created these beautiful virtual rolls…

A thread: My client got out of 30 years of prison about 6 weeks ago. Since then, people have been telling him that forms he needs are on the web or that they would email something to him. A few days ago, he shyly admitted to me that he doesnt understand what…

Egypt is racing to prepare a grandiose new capital city in the desert east of Cairo before the first civil servants move in this summer and ahead of the delayed official opening of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's flagship project.

Two years ago, I started at the City of Boston with a simple yet comically broad mandate: Get rid of paper forms and PDFs. The nascent…

Twitter announces call for public input on approach to world leaders.

British artist-filmmaker Oliver Payne and American painter Kevin Bouton-Scott have joined forces to produce a new documentary that tells an almos...

This post is also available in audio form, thanks to the efforts of our volunteer narrator. This is the third part of our four part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb) look at the production of textiles, partic…

A new moralism is gripping the literary world, treating grownups like children

True fact: the kernel has 5 separate ASN.1 parsers. 1/2

Can't trust everything you see online these days.

xbar lets you put the output of any executable script or program into your macOS menu bar

:wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS - mathiasbynens/dotfiles

Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit. Contribute to Defi-Cartel/salmonella development by creating an account on GitHub.

Did you ever notice that the theater in level 1 of Duke Nukem 3D has a big hallway off the lobby, and when you go through there, it's a bathroom? Just the one. It's a doorless unisex public bathroom with urinals. Weird.

AMD is one of the oldest designers of large scale microprocessors and has been the subject of polarizing debate among technology enthusiasts for nearly 50 years. Its...