Deep Tech: Sometimes in life, you have to roll up your sleeves and do the dirty work yourself. It's exhausting but pays off big time. That's exactly how it felt to build a visualization engine from scratch and then watch with what speed and elegance it renders complex graph structures. So if you are thinking about building a visualization engine, stop right there... we already did it! Pay attention!

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Well, we sure didn’t expect this. But the winning bid for the first iteration of the 18F micro-purchase experiment was $1. And on Wednesday, the winner delivered a solution that passed our acceptance criteria.

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"When you have a well-lit ​room, the camera will run forever." By Jason Koebler | Apr 15 2015, 1:00pm

These are not your usual Hollywood closeups. Swiss photographer Daniel Boschung created the series Face Cartography by using a robot to take high-megapixel pictures of peoples' faces, blowing up...

Many, many months ago, Declan Eardly asked why the character was chosen as the path separator. The answer’s from before my time, but I do remember the original reasons. It all stems from Microsoft’s relationship with IBM.  For DOS 1.0, DOS only supported floppy disks. Many of the DOS utilities (except for command.com) were...