Ticks are hardy little brutes that can go as long as a year without a meal. | Continue reading
A team of Clemson University researchers wants to protect humans and other mammals from the debilitating and even deadly effects of African sleeping sickness. | Continue reading
Here's our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. | Continue reading
Sorry, Tracee. I still love you. | Continue reading
Putting on clothes is a daily, mundane task that most of us perform with little or no thought. We may never take into consideration the multiple steps and physical motions involved when we're getting dressed in the mornings. But that is precisely what needs to be explored when at … | Continue reading
Snap Inc.— the maker of Snapchat — is planning to release a new version of its Spectacles glasses with two cameras and a higher price point of $350 by the end of the year, Cheddar has learned. | Continue reading
The homely Birkenstock gets a fashion makeover. | Continue reading
US consumers pay “excessive” prices for mobile data, research firm warns, adding that with looming mergers—it could soon get worse. | Continue reading
Pluralsight CEO Aaron Skonnard shares tips and tricks for navigating the road to IPO. Get helpful advice from those who’ve been there. | Continue reading
List of some useful websites for programmers and developers | Continue reading
When you force push to a branch GitHub now displays the force push event in the “Conversation” timeline of your pull request. Clicking the “force-pushed” link will show a two dot comparison between the two commits. | Continue reading
Phylogenetic evidence suggests that a factor in the emergence of the ancestral eukaryotic cell may have been selection pressure resulting from invasion and proliferation of retroelements. Here we experimentally determine the effects of a retroelement invasion on genetically simpl … | Continue reading
Illustrations from the Scientific American archive break down this “massive” development | Continue reading
Thanks to its topological properties, a CMOS-compatible photonic crystal shows reflectionless transmission of light at telecommunication wavelengths even along a path with sharp turns. | Continue reading
We turned on the ability to securely sign in with your Microsoft account using a standards-based FIDO2 compatible device—no username or password required! | Continue reading
New experiments reveal two bands of excitation for spin waves in the insulating honeycomb ferromagnet CrI${}_{3}$, showing promise for potential spintronic applications. | Continue reading
Just days before Thanksgiving, the CDC is advising that U.S. consumers stay away from romaine lettuce following an E.coli outbreak. | Continue reading
As firefighters continue to battle California's destructive Camp Fire, JPL's ARIA team has produced a new map showing damage as of Nov. 16. | Continue reading
There are many reasons why you might want to write tests for your code: to prove it works as expected, to prevent bugs from coming back… | Continue reading
Assembly of a pan-genome from 910 humans of African descent identifies 296.5 Mb of novel DNA mapping to 125,715 distinct contigs. This African pan-genome contains ~10% more DNA than the current human reference genome. | Continue reading
I’m here again, honoring the commitment I made to myself a year ago that I would take a quarterly solo retreat. This is a practice that was modeled to me growing up. My dad would take a day off work go to a monastery up in British Columbia. I remember him assembling his journal a … | Continue reading
About five years ago (circa 2013), 3D printing was primed to change the world. These little machines, whirring about with seeming sentience, produced objects out of thin air. There would soon be a 3D printer in every home, printing new cups, plates and toothbrushes on demand. Fac … | Continue reading
I’ve been working remotely since the beginning of my career. It all started in 2012 when I got my university degree in economics and management, but then decided that instead, what I really wanted to do, was to build software. | Continue reading
“Which category are you least excited about?”, I asked a VC recently. | Continue reading
Meet Omer Malad, a founder who's recently raised $4.5m for Vervoe, an AI-powered skill-testing solution to help companies hire the best candidates. I sat down with Omer to get an inside look at some of the secrets behind his success as an entrepreneur. | Continue reading
"I do not believe that our military, our diplomats around the world or here at home are safe," Laura Hughes told Andrea Mitchell in an exclusive interview. | Continue reading
The virus, developed by Oxford University, can kill tumours as well as healthy cells that have been 'tricked' into protecting cancers from the immune system, without causing any toxicities. | Continue reading
Online misinformation is a threat to a well-informed electorate and undermines democracy. Here, the authors analyse the spread of articles on Twitter, find that bots play a major role in the spread of low-credibility content and suggest control measures for limiting the spread of … | Continue reading
“The Woolsey Fire likely released and spread radiological and chemical contamination that was in [the Santa Susana Field Laboratory’s] soil and vegetation via smoke and ash,” said Bob Dodge, president of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles. “All wildfire smoke can be … | Continue reading
Issue #343 of the PyCoder’s Weekly newsletter, published Nov. 20, 2018. | Continue reading
America First! The world is a very dangerous place! The country of Iran, as an example, is responsible for a bloody proxy war against Saudi Arabia in Yemen, trying to destabilize Iraq’s fragile attempt at democracy, supporting the terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon, propping up di … | Continue reading
Using the terminal might seem slow and cumbersome because every command needs to be typed. Learn how to drastically reduce the amount of typing you have to do by configuring aliases for your most used commands, making them only a few keystrokes long. | Continue reading
ActivityPub is a W3C standard protocol that describes ways for different social network sites (loosely defined) to talk to and interact with one another. ActivityPub aims to do for social ... | Continue reading
3GI, the hosts of the annual "Shrekfest", asked their fans to retell the plot from Shrek in their own unique way. Needless to say, they received quite a | Continue reading
There’s an easy fix. | Continue reading
This cohort study investigates the differences in temporal synchrony between brain regions in individuals with autism and those with typical development. | Continue reading
This year our Microsoft Research, New England lab is seeking to fill an open postdoctoral line – for which social media candidates are eligible. We strongly encourage applicants with expertis… | Continue reading
Grooming and cleaning are part of a multibillion dollar industry from carpet cleaning to human hair care to pet grooming. Advancements in this field focus primarily on novel cleaning fluids, with less focus on brush development. This study focuses on the cat, one of nature’s most … | Continue reading