What do the HP-1000 and the DEC VAX 11/730 have in common with the video games Tempest and Battlezone? More than you might think. All of those machines, along with many others from that time period, ...

The history of computing could arguably be divided into three eras: that of mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers. Minicomputers provided an important bridge between the first mainframes and ...

A team of theoretical physicists working with Microsoft today published an amazing pre-print research paper describing the universe as a self-learning system of evolutionary laws. In other words: We ...

PART TWO: This is part two of a series on my journey to appreciating TAR. Part one addressed defined TAR, described how it worked and provided tips on when you should consider using TAR. Part two ...

Programmers learning Rust struggle to understand own\x02ership types, Rust’s core mechanism for ensuring memory safety ...

DALL-E / DALL-E Not to be self-pitying, but these are hard times to be a professional critic. With the advent of social media, anyone who imagines themselves a critic (which is to say, everyone) now ...