One of my favorite things about crypto is that, every so often, your conception of what it is changes. Bitcoin at first was "weird internet money" and then it was "a protocol" and then it was "digital gold". Ethereum is "ICOs", or maybe "DeFi", or maybe "Web3"…

BitClout has an ambitious plan for a decentralized social network. But its rocky rollout has prompted criticism and annoyed some of its own investors.

He won a Pulitzer for “Lonesome Dove” and shared an Oscar for his “Brokeback Mountain” screenplay.

Security researchers have identified new vulnerabilities in the 5G protocol that could be abused to crash network segments and extract user data, such as location information.

In a recent blogpost, Nick Grossman explains how Bitcoin acts as a battery — moving electricity across time and space, from where it can…

While drones allow photographers to get very close to erupting volcanoes, it's not without risk: the drones don't always emerge unscathed.

Rock climbers have a tradition of sharing “beta”—helpful information about a route—with other climbers. Giving beta is both useful and a form of community-building within this popular sport. Given

Scientists have a new model for faster-than-light travel that actually uses conventional physics.

Scientists from the University of Granada also found that, if the exercise is performed in the afternoon, the effects of the caffeine are more marked than in the morning Scientists from the Department of Physiology of the University of Granada (UGR) have…

Alan Jacobs on Iain M. Banks's "Culture" novels and the price of bliss.

One worrying trend I’ve observed among my male investor friends is that they’re much more wary of giving candid advice to women founders than they used to be. They are afraid of saying anything that a female founder might misinterpret as sexism. So, when…

The repressive objective of the Democratic-controlled Congress is to transfer the power to police and censor political discourse from these tech giants to themselves.

New data suggests someone has compromised more than 21,000 Microsoft Exchange Server email systems worldwide and infected them with malware that invokes both KrebsOnSecurity and Yours Truly by name. Let's just get this out of the way right now: It…

Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?

A global pandemic, anti-racism protests and a turbulent U.S. presidential election had Americans glued to their screens in 2020, but as people consumed more news, they began to trust media less, surveys suggested. The CBC documentary Big News takes a look…

The anger feels so good, but it’s insidious

Back in September 2010 I was experimenting with Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) fluid flows. At that time I managed to translate some (probably Fortran) LBM source code provided by the now defunct &…