On almost every dimension, Bitcoin is worse than it’s centralized counterparts like Paypal or Chase. This is true not just of bitcoin but almost all decentralized cryptocurrency protocols. They are slower, more expensive, harder to scale, and offer worse…

Scientists working to advance the frontier of knowledge frequently also need to invent their tools along the way. Sometimes these are interesting little hacks to get a job done. Recently some resea…

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warmux is an old worms clone project. It's a dead project, website is down, code is here now. - yeKcim/warmux

UX copywriting should be made an integral part of user experience design. Here is why.

Ever heard of a sphericular display? [AnubisTTP] laid hands on a (damaged) Burroughs SD-11 Sphericular Display and tore down the unusual device to see what was inside. It’s a type of projecti…

Intel's 22FFL (FinFET Low-power) is a variant of their existing 22nm process that is aimed at low-cost, extremely low-power, and analog/RF applications. 22FFL relaxes the ground rules to reduce the need for double patterning, thereby cutting costs. At the…

When I'm reviewing hardware, I always look around to see what I can find about it on the internet (beyond the 500 pages selling some version...

The overwhelming success of Einstein’s theory was the final blow for Newton’s absolute space—but without absolute space, we…

Hacker. Blogger. infosec enthusiast. Free culture and open source advocate. Ford-Mozilla Open Web fellow. Previously OCCRP tech associate.

Since I am claiming that cancer research is doing something suboptimal, I’m going to have to examine what progress has actually been made in cancer research, and what results it had.  Here, I’ll focus on the history of chemotherapy. Early history “A history…

The company pulled off a successful second test flight

After 12 years of using Skype for our podcasts, we switched to Discord in November and haven't looked back. With better audio quality and the ability to have interview guests participate entirely in their web browsers, Discord is a much better solution for…

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This ‘magical-realist doc’ pushes subjectivity into poetry, with a Wes Anderson spin

It used to be people were happy enough to just have to push a button in their car and have the garage door open. But pushing a button means you have to use your hands, like it’s a baby toy or…