China Sends 3 Astronauts to New Space Station in Its Longest Manned Mission
China has sent three astronauts to work on its future space station in its first crewed...
When you already know the answer
I first encountered the idea of Inner Simulators at a CFAR workshop. Credit to them, and...
Facebook begins tying social media use to ads served inside its VR ecosystem
Everything we've feared about the Facebookening of Oculus and its virtual reality ecosystem is starting to...
A guide to living at a black hole
Enlarge / Even with today's real estate boom, a supermassive black hole in the neighborhood has...
China Launches Astronauts to Space Station
Continue reading the main storyThe crew, the first to launch since 2016, will begin what is...
A New Peloton Problem: Hackers Can Access Personal Data
Hackers can access a Peloton user's bike camera, microphone and screen, security company McAfee reports. Shannon...
Tim Cook: Sideloading is “not in the best interests of the user”
Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook being interviewed remotely by Brut. Apple has been under a...
Why I Support the Haskell Foundation (retro on 15 years of Haskell programming)
Just now·7 min readLast November at the Haskell eXchange conference, Simon Peyton Jones announced the Haskell...
What happened in the impact crater the day it did in the dinos (2019)
Enlarge / This is "Liftboat Myrtle," which housed the drilling operation into Chicxulub Crater. Geology is...
Canadians who got AstraZeneca vaccine can't see 'Springsteen on Broadway'
The show must go on. But if you got the AstraZeneca vaccine, you’re not invited. Canadians...
WSJ News Exclusive – U.S. Housing Market Needs 5.5M More Units, Sa (Cont)
Construction of new housing in the past 20 years fell 5.5 million units short of long-term...
Mass-produced floating nuclear reactors using molten salt fuel
Copenhagen startup Seaborg Technologies has raised an eight-figure sum of Euros to start building a fascinating...
What Happened to GE?
GE is a mythic corporation. It was at one time the largest, most powerful company in...
California’s Progressive Anti-Housing Warriors
California’s state legislature is currently considering AB 1401, a state bill that would prevent municipal zoning...
Forget Mesos and OpenStack, Hashi Stack Is the New Next Platform
While a lot of software for creating and managing scale comes out of supercomputing centers, hyperscalers,...
U.S. Military Doesn't Even Track How Many Weapons It Loses,It Has Lost Thousands
A damning investigative report published by The Associated Press today details how over 2,000 weapons have...
Sen. Manchin call with billionaire donors re fillibuster and Jan 6 commission
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, in a private call on Monday with a group of major...
Okikio/animate the animejs-esque library built using the Web Animation API
The Web Animations API lets us construct animations and control their playback with JavaScript. The API...
Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Bluetooth LE
Improv is a free and open standard with ready-made SDKs that offer a great user experience...
Scientist Opens Up About His Early Email to Fauci on Virus Origins
Continue reading the main storyIn early 2020, Kristian Andersen wrote to Anthony Fauci about the possibility...
A Composer Condemned Arson. Now No One Will Hire Him
Until last year, Daniel Elder—a 34-year-old musician who lives in Nashville, Tennessee—had a promising career ahead...
Ohio Nuclear Bribery Scandal
The Ohio nuclear bribery scandal is a 2020 political scandal in Ohio involving allegations that FirstEnergy...
Saving books by keeping them expensive (2011)
1. During a recent visit to Cologne, I avoided the city’s most magnetic tourist attraction –...
Show HN: Animate Any Chess Opening
Alekhine Defense - B02Alekhine Defense, 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 - B03Alekhine Defense, 2. e5 Nd5...
Update to the FSF and GNU's plan to move IRC channels to Libera.Chat
by Free Software Foundation Contributions — Published on Jun 15, 2021 03:45 PM Following our announcement...
Fifth US State Ends Marriage Under 18; UK Pledges to Do the Same
Last week, a breakthrough in the global fight to end child marriage came when the United...
Science Fiction Novels for Economists
"Wall of Books" by benuski, CC BY-SA 2.0Back in 2013 I wrote a post at my...
No one likes ads. So let’s do something about it
Madison Avenue, we’ve got a problem. Creative is dead and the spreadsheets and algorithms murdered it....
How to Boost Self Esteem and Stop Procrastinating
If I had to take a swing in the dark here I would guess that there...
Manufacturing next-generation electronics like they are T-Shirts
Currently, electronics are mainly produced by subtractive processes like PCB etching which are unsustainable. Screen printing,...
4-Day Workweek Boosted Workers' Productivity by 40%, Microsoft Japan Says
A sales clerk speaks with a customer in front of Microsoft Corp.'s display at an electronics...
Be Thankful That You Live in the Most Peaceful Era in Human History
(Jonathan Bachman/Reuters) “Nearly a quarter of Americans have never experienced the U.S. in a time of...
Chevron Imprisons Lawyer Because He Beat Them in Court
American lawyer, human rights activist Steven Donziger (born 1961) is an American attorney known for his...