Foveated rendering and compression can save computations by reducing the image quality in the peripheral vision. However, this can cause noticeable artifacts in the periphery, or, if done conservatively, would provide only modest savings. In this work, we…

When I lived in Vancouver, I was enthusiastic about SkyTrain, which combined high service levels with relatively low construction costs. At the time, the budget for the 12-kilometer Broadway subway…

In 2001, the internet’s premier file-sharing service Napster was shut down after just two years, leaving a giant vacuum in the ever-expanding peer-to-peer file-sharing space....

Adult performers say it has unfairly removed their accounts, despite no explicit images.

 I recently came across this fascinating world map while researching the history of the Jesuit missions in seventeenth century China . Appar...

Long ago, I wrote git-subtree
to work around some of my annoyances with git submodules. I've learned a lot
since then, and the development e...

Thinking back to the 2000s, I remember the decade of the 9/11 attacks, talk of peak oil, a blundering war in Iraq, and the massive financial crash of 2008. In 2010, the U.S. economy was still working its way back to health. Technology companies that are…

Updates: EFF letter, PIR’s update; IGP’s insider take; ICANN resolution; Ways to act, Reg essay x2, Ohashi, Tim Berners-Lee response; Letters from ISOC(😇), Ethos(🌈), and…

Build models better. Causal replaces spreadsheets with collaborative modeling in the browser.

The firm will appeal against the decision and can continue to operate during that process.

Opposition politician told to revise 'false' Facebook remarks on state funds

With email aliases , you can be anonymous online and protect your inbox against spams and phishing.

One of the many responsibilities of the operating system is to help
processes keep secrets from each other. Operating systems often fail in
this regard, sometimes due to factors — such as hardware bugs and user-space
vulnerabilities — that are beyond their…

410 soup types and varieties in Europe. Learn how to prepare and cook them with the authentic recipes. Where to eat? Recommended traditional restaurants serving the best soups.

In this book we will create a programming language together. We'll start with 0 lines of code and end up with a fully working interpreter for the Monkey programming language.

For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true?