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Many mistakenly think that this new type of online communication (texting, emoticons, emoji, GIFs, and stickers) are not REAL communication. They're

For the past 30 years, Hollywood has consistently struggled to depict computer hacking in accurate and exciting ways. The history of Hollywood and hacking is littered with lazy writing, absurdly unrealistic computer interfaces and stereotypical "nerd" characters. But in amongst the idiocy we've also seen certain films influencing governmental policy, inspiring entire sub-cultural identities and guiding mainstream attitudes around computer security.

My hypertalented friend Lawrence Azerrad, who is designing the Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition and has created packaging for Wilco, Esperanza Spalding, Silversun Pickups, and many o…

Travel photography from the world's most beautiful secret places by Amos Chapple.

With Putin and Russia in the news more and more thanks to Trump and Steven Seagal, maybe it’s high time to learn how to pronounce Russian text. Thanks to the instructor’s lovely accent …

E/V Nautilus explores the ocean, sharing highlights of their video captures, like this adorable googly-eyed stubby squid seen off the coast of California.

Located in the harsh region of Siberia, just a few hundred miles outside the Arctic Circle lies Yakutsk, the coldest inhabited city on earth. Here, daily…

“Sorry, let me just tell a quick story” is the fastest way to lose your audience before you even begin.

Artificial intelligence isn’t just a movie, it’s an extremely in-demand career path that is fueling the future of technology. The new Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence Introdu…

Why do people cheat? Why are our online worlds often so toxic? What motivates us to “catch ’em all” in Pokemon, grinding away for hours to hatch eggs? In this episode, psychologis…

Clearing up misconceptions about first impressions, and why mastering them is crucial for a number of occasions in both romance and work.

Unclutterer provides you with an library of product reviews, DIY guides and home improvement tips to help design the perfect home.

A new approach to solving the reproducibility crisis.

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Dafna Shahaf on information cartography and AI, and Sam Wang on probabilistic methods for forecasting political elections.

O'Reilly Radar Podcast: SNAFU Catchers, knowing how things work, and the proper response to system discrepancies.

It’s late, I’ve just plugged the Google Home voice assistant in, and I’ve got a fridge full of pumpkin and pie crusts and Thanksgiving is three weeks away. “Okay Google, how do I make a pumpkin pie?” Google Home happily answers my question, firing off a summary of the instructions as told to it by AllRecipes.com. If I…

And thinks Taylor Swift should learn to code.

There’s something very classically science fiction-y about how much talking there is in “Augmented,” a short film from Ross Peacock. Because it is mostly two people in a room, talking about the implications of technology—but that isn’t the real story it’s telling.

Performing business analytics on the data lake using next-gen open source tools.

A next-generation curated knowledge sharing platform for data scientists and other technical professions. - GitHub - airbnb/knowledge-repo: A next-generation curated knowledge sharing platform for ...

Given at CodeMesh 2016

Instead of pressuring women in the tech industry to solve sexism, this feminist activist is teaching men how to stop biased behavior

Has anyone spanned the Atlantic with floating microwave masts yet? We're not sure...

Five questions for Caskey Dickson: Insights on the changing role of IT ops.

Introduction Data science continues to generate excitement and yet real-world results can often disappoint business stakeholders. How can we mitigate risk and ensure results match expectations? Working as a technical data scientist at the interface between R&D and commercial operations has given me an insight into the traps

ClusterHQ debuts information time machine for better production testing

In this article we will discuss how to list, load and remove kernel module in Linux.modprobe and modinfo command is used to manage kernel modules in linux.

CoreOS' CEO is on record as saying that Kubernetes has already taken its place at the center of what we had been calling the “container ecosystem.” Now, in a move to help further legitimize that claim and grow the emerging field of workload-centric orchestration around Kubernetes, CoreOS on Thursday released to the open source community…

CoreOS is introducing software to simplify cluster configuration