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Tokyo has a reputation for being an eye-wateringly expensive city. It's also known for being population-dense and having extremely limited land. So I was shocked to learn that your average middle-class family can buy their own detached house there for just $300,000, which won't even get you a studio in

[Image: From Heat Maps by Richard Mosse, courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery]. In a highly timely new show called Heat Maps, opening tonight, February 2, at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City, photo…

2-in-1s are all about 'generating customer love'

There is no “normal” for a microservices environment. And if a groundbreaking November 2016 white paper [PDF], produced by a team of six researchers from the University of Messina, the U.K.’s Newcastle University, and IBM Research, is to be taken at face value, perhaps such a state of equilibrium may never be attained. Every data…

Learn to use Kickstart to get the same look on multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux system installations.

Is your machine learning?

The Blockchain distributed ledger technology seems to be followed by two camps within the corporate world. One stays far, far away, wary that it is the cryptocurrency of the underground. The other camp watches closely, looking for ways that blockchains could be used to streamline (and disrupt) traditional business accounting processes. With this, we draw…

Hear about three Google Maps customers using location-based technologies to do everything from stock vending machines, collect trash — even help people keep track of their pets.

You want a Fast, Good, and Cheap project?

My partner and I traded mindless scrolling for a month of home-cooked meals and rediscovered hobbies.

Despite the layoffs, Mozilla insists it will be increasing its headcount

This is a guest post by Tony Branson . Performance, scalability, and HA are often used i...

I like the idea of starting new notebooks by stationing guardian spirits inside the front cover, to watch over things. For my latest notebook, I went with Emily

If you're trying to persuade someone to make an investment, buy some insurance or support a new plan, please consider that human beings are terrible at buying these things. What we're goo…

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). This passage made me think immediately of Creon’s rebuke of Antigone: “Aren’t you ashamed to...

Learn how to create and make changes to a Kickstart configuration file using the anaconda-ks.cfg.

Purposefully making yourself uncomfortable can help you push beyond your limits and accomplish more.

In the last few years, a series of spectacular research results have drawn the world’s attention to the field of machine learning…

Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.

StreamAlert is a serverless, realtime data analysis framework which empowers you to ingest, analyze, and alert on data from any environment, using datasources and alerting logic you define. - GitHu...