“Consider a future device ... in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”

Well, as of sometime on December 5th a huge number of the archivists that were scrambling to rescue archives from Yahoo Groups, had their {e-mail addresses} apparently banned  so they can no longer…

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The long read: Though unrecognised by the international community, this self-declared state in the Horn of Africa has its own flag, parliament, currency and national identity. What has to happen before its status changes? By Joshua Keating

After a bone marrow transplant, a man with leukemia found that his donor’s DNA traveled to unexpected parts of his body. A crime lab is now studying the case.

Learn how to use dig (DNS lookup tool) effectively with practical examples

Yegor Zhukov’s message about responsibility and love shows what political dissent can be and seems to describe American reality as accurately as the Russian one.

A loving mother’s caress is more than simple comfort to an infant. Scientists have known for decades that touch is critically important for a child’s healthy development, according to an article in the journal Pediatric Child Health.

Photographer: “How ’bout we do the shoot in a hot tub?” Larry and Sergey: “Sure!” Never such innocence again. Can billionaires be tragic figures? Lear must have been w…

The author wasn’t all about literary masterpieces, dry martinis and rakish charm – he also invented a technique that can beat procrastination and boost productivity.

By offering as little as a few bucks at a time to new borrowers, a microlending business of Chinese technology giant Ant Financial has quietly swelled into one of China’s largest providers of personal credit lines.

The island nations of Vanuatu and Maldives are spearheading an effort for the International Criminal Court to consider ecocide a crime against peace.

Chrome extension designed to help automate the signup to Yahoo Groups - davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner

US healthcare is NOT an outlier. The slope is consistent with the pattern of diminishing returns elsewhere; obesity, drugs, etc drive down the intercept (mostly)

This article introduces in detail how TiKV handles read and write operations. Together we will explore how TiKV, as a distributed key-value (KV) database, stores the data contained in a write request and how it retrieves the corresponding data with consistency…

In 2006, Aaron Patzer founded Mint. Patzer had grown up in the city of Evansville, Indiana—a place he described as "small, without much economic opportunity"—but had created a successful business

Work in progress SDK for creating Game Boy Advance games using Zig programming language. - GitHub - wendigojaeger/ZigGBA: Work in progress SDK for creating Game Boy Advance games using Zig programm...