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A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.

The rare hybrid offspring of a blue jay and a green jay is likely a result of weather-related shifts in the range of two species.

In 2019, hunters Brad Cape and Phil Yeomans were scouting for elk in southeast Wyoming when they came across a rocky peak that seemed perfect for elk hunting, a suspicion only heightened by its name: Elk Mountain. But finding a way onto Elk Mountain would…

You can build this awesome medium-format rangefinder camera for yourself.

Lisp in Life is a Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway’s Game of Life.

YouTube's CEO Neal Mohan joins other tech bosses from Bill Gates to Mark Cuban who restrict their children's social media and smartphone use.

What is the Dandelion network protocol? What is the analogy with a dandelion plant?

The state of email encryption

High-performance object storage exists, but the economics make it unusable at scale. FractalBits breaks out of the high-performance trap.

You won't arrive on time and may not even get a seat. Your booking might get lost. Things have gotten so dire that a foreigner has been brought in to shake things up.

Every modern exchange is a distributed database in disguise. This article reveals how trading engines transform chaotic streams of buy and sell orders into a perfectly ordered, replayable log, ensuring fairness, determinism, and market data reliability.

Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system.

In 1975, a young engineer in the company that made Kodak film took the first picture on a handheld digital camera. Photography would never be the same again.

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One of the things I do when I'm feeling blue is to make a mental list of the nice things people have done for me over the years, including perfect strangers.