Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code

What are scam centres – explained in 30 seconds

Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have become havens for the multibillion dollar scam industry, which has proliferated in the region in recent years

Three years on, ChatGPT still isn't what it was cracked up to be – and it probably never will be

10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are

In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.

This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether.

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Kodak says it might have to shut down after 133 years

Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds

Historical Tech Tree - an interactive visualization of technological history from 3 million years ago to today

Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn

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He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how – more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned – the community is only really beginning to understand radiation's powerfully harmful effects

the first release of GIMP 3.0 is here! This is the end result of seven years of hard work by volunteer developers, designers, artists, and community members

Genomic study indicates our capacity for language emerged 135,000 years ago

Japan’s service robot market projected to triple in five years

the 10 hottest years on record had happened in the past decade, including 2024

Google has spent the last few years shooting itself in the foot

Vor 20 Jahren noch ein Grund für's Krankenhaus, heute und spätestens seit der Pandemie plötzlich ein Teil des "Lifestyle"

So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:
One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism.
The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs

amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker, published just seven years before his legendary gothic novel Dracula.

Brian Cleary stumbled upon the 134-year-old ghostly tale while browsing the archives of the National Library of Ireland