A new study identified 37 recently active volcanic structures on Venus. The study provides some of the best evidence yet that Venus is still a geologically active planet. A research paper on the work, ...

An unlikely marriage where both sides win

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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Tuesday the establishment of three quantum computing centers across the nation, invo…

A long and convoluted allegory about the difference between what you can acquire and what you can keep.

Old-School Disk Partitions Unix started out life in 1970. Many of the things it did, it had to invent on the fly. Disk handling was one of t...

How the Spanish arrival transformed the land—and decimated the population—of Mesoamerica.

“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C.
Every line of code written comes at a price: maintenance. To...

By Stanislav Kirdey, William High

The assay looks for stomach, esophageal, colorectal, lung and liver malignancies

Attachment theory suggests that early interactions with caregivers can dramatically affect your beliefs about yourself, your expectations of others, and how you cope with stress and regulate your emotions as an adult

There is no Amazon. There is no eBay. If you want to buy a dress or a crested finch from the comfort of your home, you have to use Facebook.

Elliptic curve cryptography is an efficient modern approach to public-key cryptosystems. In this introduction, our goal will be to focus on the high-level

Slimbook has announced the third iteration of the KDE Slimbook. The device is now available from €900 and comes in two sizes; 14-inch and 15.6-inch. It comes with KDE Neon, a Linux distribution.

Can a Japanese label famous for its simplicity take over the fashion world?

One of the key elements of Google's software engineering culture is the use of design docs for defining software designs. These are...

The ListenBrainz team has been working hard on moving our primary listen store from InfluxDB to TimescaleDB, and today at UTC 16:00 we’re going to make the switch. We were asked on Twitter as…

FastoNoSQL is a crossplatform Redis, Memcached, SSDB, LevelDB, RocksDB, UnQLite, LMDB, ForestDB, Pika, Dynomite, KeyDB GUI management tool. - fastogt/fastonosql

There's a reason crowds flock to see the Soviet-built AN-225 wherever it lands. Created to carry the USSR's space shuttle, this behemoth of the skies is still working today, and is still the world's biggest airplane in regular operation.