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Reports that archaeologists were examining stone buildings in the Argentinian jungle seemed to give new life to a second world war myth. Here’s the real story

One account has been written, in this case by George Steiner who wrote a book in 1981 called "The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H," in which Jewish Nazi ...

Developers have forgotten the clutter-free purity of Smalltalk, an influential object-oriented programming language. Learning it can give you an edge.

My adventure as an evangelist

The universal basic income — a cash payment made to every individual in the country — has been critiqued recently by some commentators…

Import OpenStreetMap data into Unreal Engine 4. Contribute to ue4plugins/StreetMap development by creating an account on GitHub.

A data interchange format. Contribute to cognitect/transit-format development by creating an account on GitHub.

At the keynote speech at GitHub Universe this year, CEO Chris Wanstrath reminded the audience that the first code was committed to GitHub in 2007, just nine years ago. I got lost thinking about how much this one company has changed the face of tech and wondered what else has changed since then. As Bill Gates…

The big holiday gift of the season seems to have been the Amazon Echo Dot. The small voice-controlled gadget was the perfect combination of low-cost and high-tech for gadget lovers and techies everywhere.

Machine learning in Clojure. Contribute to originrose/cortex development by creating an account on GitHub.

The topic of this entry is Reputation Infrastructure, which I expect to be the most objected to chapter in my new book. The chapter talks about how a

Feature Vinod Khosla did not show up at TechCrunch Disrupt to be harangued by some smartass, know-nothing journalist. The venture capitalist came to talk about disruption and revolutions to an audience of 1,000 potential disrupters and revolutionaries, laptop glow illuminating their faces in a San Francisco warehouse. But of course the journalist had to bring up […]

Attitude is the most important choice any of us will make. We made it yesterday and we get another choice to make it today. And then again tomorrow. The choice to participate. To be optimistic. To …

The world’s largest e-commerce retailer says it has 45,000 robots in some 20 fulfillment centers.

PHP script to fetch license data from GitHub for your project's dependencies. It outputs to a simple HTML document. · GitHub

As a new year begins, it's a good time to cast one last, lingering look back at 2016. I've called this the ultimate big data question: what just happened over the last 12 months? If every moment is its own container filled with memories, here’s an attempt to tease out some meaning from that great…

Computer Science Cheatsheets. Contribute to espadrine/succinct-cybernetics development by creating an account on GitHub.

The coming year will be pivotal in more ways than one. There will be new challengers that confront traditions, and smarter devices that make us dumber.