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If you want to study how datacenter design has changed over the past two decades, a good place to visit is Quincy, Washington. There are five different

[Image: Photo by Stephen Beatty, via the New York Times]. A few years ago, we learned that the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles craze—or, rather, its rapid fizzling-out—led to a spike in illic…

[Image: Malta, Instragram by BLDGBLOG]. Down in the lower levels of Valletta’s fortified walls, an old bricked-up doorway resembles something from a computer game: an oddly colored bit of masonry y…

Every year, we spend more than a trillion dollars worth of time and attention on organized spectator sports. The half-life of a sporting event is incredibly short. Far more people are still talking…

Neat and interesting read from Nautilus A few months ago, my aunt sent her colleagues an email with the subject, “Math Problem! What is the answer?” It contained a deceptively simple puzzle. She th…

How many living, breathing human beings really read Techdirt? The truth — the most basic, rarely-spoken truth — is...

Individual rights must always be matched with responsibilities.

Many investors put a lot of faith in the internet revolution, but technology has its limits, writes Satyajit Das.

While you were busy doodling hover cars and sharpening your Wacom stylus, William Broadway developed a final year project that might save millions of lives. Annually. His project, the ISOBAR, aims to help temperature stabilize vaccines for safer delivery in regions with hot climates or barriers to delivery. The cold

Why can we Tweet cat videos, but the government can't message a thumbnail?

After half a decade working as a system administrator/SRE, I know where to start when I am connecting to a Linux server. There is a set of information that you must know about the server in order to properly, well most of the time, debug it. First 60 seconds on a Linux server These commands are […]

Top internet companies — but not Amazon or PayPal — are cooperating to solve a persistent problem: How to provide one-click shopping across all kinds of sites.

Akamai CSO laments pisspoor security design practices

Learn how security can be enforced at the browser level through a combination of optimization techniques and security enhancements.

Physicists, air traffic controllers, and video game creators all have at least one thing in common: vectors. But what exactly are they, and why do they matter? David Huynh explains how vectors are a prime example of the elegance, beauty, and fundamental usefulness of mathematics.

Some of the key elements of the embedded market are cost, power and efficiency. A number of applications for embedded vision and IoT, when...

One of the key challenges in running containerized workloads is dealing with persistence. Unlike virtual machines that offer durable and persistent storage, containers come with ephemeral storage. Right from its inception, Docker encouraged the design of stateless services. Persistence and statefulness are an afterthought in the world of containers. But this design works in favor…

To anyone who understands information theory and security and is in an infuriating argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I sincerely apologize.