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These subtly surreal paintings by the artist Simon Stålenhag depict a future or alternate reality where things look very much like our own except for the nearly incidental presence of robots, stran…

Throughout human history, culture has been made by people telling one another stories, building on what has come before, and making it their own. Every generation, every storyteller puts their own

It’s been one of those weeks in information security. The kind that makes me think about raising sheep in New Zealand, because they won’t argue with me about APTs and attribution. In ad…

On Wednesday, the OpenStack community released OpenStack Ocata, the 15th version of this open source software for building cloud services. This release is of particular interest to us in how much it fully embraces containers. You might remember a year ago, we heard a lot of hyperbole of how containers and container orchestration engines could extinguish…

“For developers, [containers are] a really cool technology — a no-brainer in a lot of ways. But for operations engineers, to support and manage these containers on their infrastructure or in the cloud, it brings extra concerns about management, orchestration, security, availability and monitoring," said Peter Arijs, product and marketing manager of CoScale. "That’s what we focus…

An interview with Greg Meddles, technical lead for healthcare.gov.

Earlier this week, Microsoft made the Kubernetes container orchestration service generally available on Azure Container Service, alongside the other predominant container orchestration engines Docker Swarm and Mesosphere's Data Center Operating System (DC/OS). The move is one more step in building out the service, Kubernetes co-founder Brendan Burns told The New Stack. Burns moved from Google to…

Learn about three of the most popular machine learning libraries for Python.

Heather Kirksey, who heads up the Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization (OPNFV) project, talks with Gordon Haff. She gives an update on why the project is more important than ever.

A follow-up to “Is anyone else freaking out about Facebook?”

Logz.io CEO explains the advantages and potential pitfalls of DevOps and how the company used big data and AI to create the Apocalypse Index, a real-time chart forecasting the end of the world.

The words you use to represent yourself matter — and those words mean nothing. The only time “full stack” means something. 😍The vagueness and confusion around the phrase “full stack developer” has …

A family of unimplemented computing languages is described that is intended to span differences of application area by a unified framework. This framework dictates the rules about the uses of user-...

I’ve been looking at that issue for quite a while, and always tried to play nice and be quiet about this, but quite recently I’ve experienced the discrepancies that I am going to describe quite intimately, so I feel I can no longer hold back. But lets start with a little introduction and motivation for … Continue reading Modern Software Development or Slow as Molasses

How do we store negative binary numbers? We explore different notations such as signed magniture, ones' complement and twos' complement.

Add priorities to your web app's network requests. Contribute to alixander/Stanchion development by creating an account on GitHub.

Gathering requirements from the client (or a representative, but let me call this person client for sake of simplicity) is as important in software development as it is in other fields of business.…

Making a computer mimic the human cognitive function of understanding text is a really hot topic nowadays. Applications range from…

This is "Greg Wilson - What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True" by CUSEC on Vimeo, the home for high quality…

Meyer Lansky was an infamous and ruthless gangster — albeit one so personally charming that his life is chronicled in a book called But He Was Good to His Mother — and no friend of New …

Check out Nokia 3310 Dual SIM, the updated classic that’s just as good as you remember it. With a fun design, four colors to choose from and features that first made it famous, including Snake, durable build, and awesome battery life.

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A "forbidden research" conference at MIT tackles areas of science constrained by ethical, cultural and institutional restrictions.