In my spare time I’m an emergency services volunteer, and one of the tasks our unit has is to run the radio network and keep track of what’s happening. This can be a pretty stressful job, especially when there’s lots of radio traffic, and it’s not unusual…

We’ve frequently talked about amateur radio on these pages, both in terms of the breadth of the hobby and the surprisingly low barrier to entry. It’s certainly the case that amateur rad…

I did the Y Combinator interview. It's for entry to the Winter 2020 batch. I'm excited, but also a bit divided. Here are my notes.

Ecstasy has been co-created by former Tangosol founders Cameron Purdy and Gene Gleyzer, and they recently showcased the language at CloudNative London 2019. InfoQ got together with Purdy to ask some questions about the language and the problems it’s designed…

A few weeks ago we featured a project from [Dan], a work-in-progress in which he was attaching an EMF 2018 electronic conference badge to a rotary phone. At the time we looked forward to his progre…

A 1992 memo that sent to comp.sys.m6809 informing the community about a set of undocumented enhancements found in the Hitachi 6309 microprocessor.

We are open-sourcing Detectron2, the second-generation of our widely used object-recognition platform. Detectron2 has been rewritten from the ground up in PyTorch to enable faster model iteration and deployment.

In 2018 $273bn was spent on digital ads globally. We delve into the world of clicks, banners and keywords to find out if any of it is real. What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?

One problem I was facing when building GNES: Generic Neural Elastic Search is how to effectively control the dependencies in Python. The main dependen ... · Han Xiao

GitHub's annual "State of the Octoverse" report shows that Python has overtaken Java as the second-most popular language after JavaScript, based on th

A Fast Deep Learning Model to Upsample Low Resolution Videos to High Resolution at 30fps - HasnainRaz/Fast-SRGAN

It’s that time of year again, when fall is quickly ushered out to make room for all things holiday-related. For many of us, this means going on trips to visit relatives, which, depending on t…