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Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
Read our first post to learn more about the series. We recognize that the opinions of a few people by no means represent the opinions or experiences of all women who code. We’d love to hear feedback...
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Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter
Photographer: Yana Paskova/BloombergA year after his return as CEO, live-streaming and new products haven’t revived growth.A few days before Twitter’s Sept. 8 board meeting, as the company’s finance...
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Cape Adare
Photo credit: Heritage Expeditions. I wake up in my bunk at some unknown hour, feeling for the first time in the voyage like I might be sick. The world is spinning around me in darkness. I can hear the...
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‘Security Fatigue’ Can Cause Computer Users to Feel Hopeless and Act Recklessly
After updating your password for the umpteenth time, have you resorted to using one you know you’ll remember because you’ve used it before? Have you ever given up on an online purchase because you just...
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NewLisp
Stable Release version 10.7.0 - January 21st, 2016newLISP is a Lisp-like, general-purpose scripting language. It is especially well-suited for applications in AI, simulation, natural language...
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Smallest. Transistor. Ever
Schematic of a transistor with a molybdenum disulfide channel and 1-nanometer carbon nanotube gate.Credit: Sujay Desai/UC BerkeleyFor more than a decade, engineers have been eyeing the finish line in...
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What SMART Stats Tell Us About Hard Drives
What if a hard drive could tell you it was going to fail before it actually did? Is that possible? Each day Backblaze records the SMART stats that are reported by the 67,814 hard drives we have...
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Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal
Crystals are extraordinary objects, not least because of their symmetry. Crystals form repeating patterns that are the same in some directions but not all directions. That’s something of a surprise...
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Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video]
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OVH to establish North American headquarters and first U.S. data center
For Immediate Release: October 6, 2016 Contacts: Office of the Governor: Brian Coy, (804) 225-4260, Brian.Coy@governor.virginia.gov | Virginia Economic Development Partnership: Suzanne Clark, (804)...
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Reflections of an “Old” Programmer
I'm a programmer, a few months shy of his 40th birthday. It's Saturday morning, my kids are home with my wonderful wife (who is pulling my weight on the domestic front), and I'm at a tech conference....
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Mylan overcharged Medicaid for EpiPen for years, despite warnings
Mylan Pharmaceuticals overcharged Medicaid for its EpiPen device for years, even though the company had been told it should have provided bigger rebates, a federal agency said on Wednesday.From 2011 to...
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Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges
State agents raided the Dallas headquarters of adult classified ad portal Backpage and arrested Chief Executive Officer Carl Ferrer on Thursday following allegations that adult and child...
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Hurricane Matthew Visualization
Ventusky - Wind, Rain and Temperature Maps Temperature Precipitation Wind Wind gusts Clouds Air pressure CAPE Snow cover Freezing level Wind animation GFS, ICON, GEM
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Google Noto Fonts
When text is rendered by a computer, sometimes characters are displayed as “tofu”. They are little boxes to indicate your device doesn’t have a font to display the text. Google has been developing a...
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First farm to grow vegetables in a desert using only sun and seawater
Sundrop farm: no fossil fuels required to grow 180,000 tomato plantsSundropBy Alice KleinSunshine and seawater. That’s all a new, futuristic-looking greenhouse needs to produce 17,000 tonnes of...
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Docker based CartoDB deployment
README.mdDocker configuration for CartoDB.This is a simple configuration for running cartodb app.All containers are linked to the host net stack, and therefore share the same ip address. To run...
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The path of software development craftsmanship
The software development complexity is increasing day by day. Almost every year a new framework (like AngularJS, ReactJS) is released, new build tool (like Webpack, Rollup). Even new JavaScript...
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The Julia Programming Language for Number Crunching
Some initial experiments were performed here, but since they used different codes with somewhat different discretizations the results can’t quite be compared directly. This then is a follow up...
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Class-Divided Cities: San Francisco Edition
The 11th in our series exploring the class divides across America's largest cities and metros. Author's Note: This is the 11th of a series of posts that explore the class divides across America's...
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