Charles Blondin understood the appeal of the morbid to the masses, and reveled when gamblers took bets on whether he would plunge to a watery death

On a sultry summer night in July 2019, the MV Manukai was arriving at the port of Shanghai, near the mouth of the Huangpu River. This busy tributary of the Yangtze winds through the city and includes the Bund, a historic waterfront area and tourist hot spot.…

Headphones do a better job than earbuds at muting distracting noise.

Official Post from Bryan Lunduke: This article is based firmly in the realm of speculation.Because, sometimes, speculation is fun.Specifically, I want to (attempt to) answer a question that's been rumbling around the tech world (primarily the Linux and Free…

It may live on in the US app stores

Even by the wild standards of the outer solar system, the strange orbits that carry Neptune's two innermost moons are unprecedented, according to newly published research.

Novelist and poet Herbert Gold discusses aging, biking around Paris, and living next door to James Baldwin.

A US judge has allowed police access to the major DNA database without users' consent (including Australian users). It's a timely reminder that we urgently need genetic privacy legislation.

After using Go for a couple years, I’ve really come to appreciate its
simplicity. I started writing Go at work a couple months ago, and have found it
really easy to iterate on – much more so than Python and Java.

It was the end of 2011 and I had officially ‘escaped the city.’ Rewind twelve months. I was working in healthcare, running a GP surgery of 20...

Google One bundles cloud storage, powerful AI capabilities, and helpful features across Google — all in one shareable plan.

Terence Tao *96 was an extraordinary prodigy — and he’s still at it

“Favor composition over inheritance”. This piece of wisdom from Design Patterns, one of the most influential software engineering books, is the foundation of...

Sonic the Hedgehog, Harley Quinn, The Invisible Man, and more

Anyone who has ever had to propagate small plants from seed will know that efficiently sowing seed can be a difficult process. Getting a consistent number of seed in each point while achieving any …

OneZero obtained a presentation that reveals how Knightscope uses facial recognition and license plate readers to track individuals

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