The collective behaviours of smartphones — alerts, responsive interfaces, the use of gestures, the knowledge of intimate data — all feed into our reliance on the devices.

A x86 Unix-like OS made entirely from scratch. Contribute to dvir-biton/MyraOS development by creating an account on GitHub.

Books by People's mission is to safeguard human creativity in modern literature by helping publishers and authors to certify their books as human-authored, with a process readers can trust.

In a little over a century, the electron microscope evolved from a tool barely capable of resolving virus particles into one able to capture atomic detail.

Ken Thompson's vivid recollection of the rowdy roomful of geeks at Bell Labs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.

When I was in high school, my teacher once told us a crazy story.

Councilman testimony: https://youtu.be/Jh2wfR7wyS0?t=3145
Flock wiki with patent links & other info: https://consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=Flock_License_Plate_Readers

Other videos on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkVbIsAWN2luf9…

“Now it looks like the White House is physically being destroyed.”…

In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $100 billion vision for YouTube’s future and the disruption it’s left in its wake.

A Silicon Valley firm has contracted with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build out a social media surveillance dragnet. Critics say that the AI-driven software will target immigrants for political speech.

At thousands of uploads/second, S3’s per-request fees dominated costs. We built N3, a Rust in-memory landing zone with S3 as overflow.

I’ve been watching the Zig language for a while now, given that it was created for writing audio software (low-level, no allocations, real time). I never paid too much attention though, it seemed a little weird to me and I didn’t see the real need. Then I…

Main Bottleneck in the Rendering Loop The primary bottleneck is at /vscode/src/vs/base/browser/dom.ts:365 - the animation frame queue sorts on every iteration inside the while loop: while (currentQ...

Implementations of the Are-we-fast-yet benchmark suite in Oberon, C++, C, Pascal, Micron and Luon - rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet

The 1975 Sphere Computer from Utah. Images, resources, documentation, virtual Sphere emulator, and book updates!

University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researchers have developed algorithms that improve the precision of location tracking in smartwatches, a world-first development.

An efficient unique-line counter (25x over `sort | uniq -c`) - noamteyssier/hist-rs