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- .blue is a search engine trying to restore and preserve the ocean
- ‘Chance is lumpy’ and other laws of statistics from Robert P. Abelson
- ‘No Web Without Women’: a website dedicated to the innovations of women in computer science and tech
- ‘The potential of LLMs goes far beyond a natural language interface’
- ‘What is a City Pigeon?’: a cool comic by Rosemary Mosco about pigeons
- 1-bit Puerto Rico
- 100 facts from Mental Floss about planet Earth
- 14 mins of commercials from the dot-com bubble
- 14 minutes of ASMR facts about black holes
- 15 sleep myths, debunked by sleep experts
- 17 Black STEM books for kids
- 1MB – the service offering affordable web hosting
- 20 mechanical principles explained with LEGO
- 20 Web research studies/surveys from 2020
- 23andMe is struggling and I can’t find my tiny violin anywhere
- 4 AMSR videos featuring marine biology
- 40 winks in the distant future
- 5 Kurzgesagt videos about animals
- 5 minutes about earthquakes
- 5 things to know about IBM’s tech investment in HBCUs
- 512 Pixels on the Apple Jonathan concept computer
- 516 Arouca: the world’s second-longest pedestrian suspension bridge (updated)
- 6 names for search engines based on spider species
- 6 neologisms of Stanisław Lem
- 7 Blerds from history
- 7 Things I Learnt From Learning Python
- 89 YouTube channels to help improve your coding skills
- 998,001: the number craze of 2012
- A 100KB text-to-image AI model?
- A beard-combing robot for Santa
- A Black Internet Timeline
- A blog post about tomato and tobacco plants
- A Bluesky thread of articles about generative AI, published in 2024
- A breakthrough in quantum computing thanks to Floquet Majorana fermions
- A brief history of app store concepts
- A cocky locksmith just lost a $75 bet
- A collection of vintage computer product designs
- A few notable STEM achievements from the Netherlands
- A floppy disk with 512GB of storage inside?
- A good explainer on how the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines won’t alter your DNA
- A great definition of the World Wide Web
- A Linux kernel driver that turns a rotary phone dial into an input device
- A marble clock featuring… black and white marbles
- A mathematician explains infinity in 5 minutes
- A meteor in the Portuguese sky, caught on video
- A MiniDisc Player can now support full data transfer thanks to this hack
- A new paper shines a spotlight on the misuse of intersectionality in ‘AI fairness’
- A new study suggests that whales and hippos had a common ancestor that was likely a land mammal
- A node.js module that checks a sentence to see if you can reply ‘that’s what she said’
- A Q&A with Christine Darden, the 40-year NASA engineer
- A snapshot of the Milky Way in all its megapixel glory
- A Sony flip phone from 2000 running Android 9
- A syllabus based on Halt and Catch Fire
- A time-lapse video of a pine cone growing into a pine tree
- A timeline of React critiques
- A unified geologic map of the Moon
- A viral history of viruses
- A virologist, an immunologist, and an epidemiologist walk into a lab…
- A Web chronicle of tech killed by the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft
- A word on the nonsense of blockchain and crypto assets
- A.D. Carson on the poignance of ‘Whitey on the Moon’
- Adam Willems on Google’s iconic ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button
- Aerial views of Iceland’s glacier rivers
- AI detectors are biased and they suck
- AI is White AF in pop culture says researchers
- AI might beat people at Pokémon but it doesn’t take much to dethrone it
- AI: the greatest Pokémon master
- Aimee Ferrier on the space race’s influence on pop culture
- Alessio Figalli: ever the optimalist
- Algorithms power machine learning but what if machine learning improved those algorithms?
- All 13 full moons of 2023, courtesy of @moonwise8
- Amaroq for Mastodon
- An ‘eye-opening’ video debunking ocular myths
- An academic paper on ‘quantum Black creative geographies’
- An early internet virus, as reported in 1988
- An electric 3-wheeler skateboard with a few tricks up its sleeve
- An explainer video on sleep crusts
- An NLP review of video game review scores
- An ode to a pixel
- And what can our robot bartender get you?
- Android Didn’t Kill Windows Phone, They Let Themselves Die
- Anna Lytical codes a website with nothing but copy and paste
- Another Arctic tragedy
- Apparently, Lycos is still around
- Apparently, woolly mammoths weren’t always shaggy
- Apple reportedly ceasing production of the Vision Pro
- Apps – The Real iPhone Killer
- Apps won’t ‘move the #MeToo movement’, especially without systematic change
- Archivists ready to archive Ukraine’s internet should Russia cyberattack them
- Arduino: can run DOOM and a linear regression model
- Are we finally entering our jet pack era?
- Are you ready to bing-le your bells?
- Ars Technica on neutrinos: ‘the inscrutable “ghost particles”’
- Arsenijs Picugins on Raspberry Pis and SD card corruptions
- Article Performance Leaderboard: a showcase of news sites and their varying page speeds
- ASH is a real-life Pokédex for kids to identify plants and animals
- Atlas of Space
- Atmos on the Black maritime archeologists seeking ancestral truth in the deep blue sea
- Auto Shenanigans asks why there aren’t more cloverleaf interchanges
- Automate the watering of your Christmas tree with this tutorial
- Automation hype curve
- Awareness of climate change disproportionately affecting Black people isn’t enough
- Awesome songs played by stepper motors
- Basecamp is effed
- Beating bias in AI datasets is more than just data diversity—it’s a balance of data and training
- Bees’ brain cell density is higher than birds
- Before ChatGPT and Bard, there was Mindpixel
- Belphegor’s prime: a delightfully devilish number
- Ben Jemmett’s flashing Christmas tree
- Biopython: a set of free Python tools for computational molecular biology
- Black holes, lasers, and quantum computing
- Black in AI
- Black in Astro celebrates the Black space experience
- Black in Marine Science: a nonprofit for current and future Black marine scientists
- Black scientists in quantum physics
- Black women made $0.90 for every $1 a white man in the same tech role made last year
- Blacker Than Black Times Infinity
- BookNLP is a natural language processing pipeline for books
- BREAKING: Fool’s gold actually contains gold. Sort of.
- Brian Williams: combating racism in public health with bioengineering
- Bright Sun Films on Concorde
- Browsing The Web Without CSS
- Build your own 3D-printed skateboard thanks to megalog_
- Building A Raspberry Pi Into A Retro Gaming Machine
- c-jump: the geekiest board game ever
- Calculating Empires uproots 5 centuries of modern technology and world history
- Can a black hole suck in another black hole?
- Can AI help to revive endangered languages?
- Can DOS viruses ruin modern PCs? Yes.
- Can you fit your website on a floppy disk?
- Can’t sleep, death’ll eat me
- Capital B on the effects of electric vehicle manufacture on Black communities
- Cars and their relationship with Moore’s Law
- Cedrick Fogwan: the Cameroonian conservationist aiming to save the goliath frog
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein discussing ‘The Disordered Cosmos’ on NPR’s Short Wave
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on women of colour in STEM
- Charles Leifer on asyncio
- Charlton D. McIlwain on Black digital activists
- ChatGPT on MS-DOS
- Chinese astronauts make history aboard the Tiangong space station
- CHM Live hosted a talk on the Apple Mac at 40
- Christmas in Linux
- Christopher Jackson’s fight against racism in UK universities
- Chrome Unboxed covers the Google Pixel 7 Hardware event in less than 14 minutes
- Climate ‘tipping points’ that could change our world forever
- Coincidental correlations?
- Confessions of a 90’s internet addict
- Congrats to Vanessa E. Wyche: the first Black female director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center
- Consumers SHOCKED That Expensive iPhone Still Breaks
- Coronavirus reinfection will be the ‘new norm’
- Cory Doctorow on ‘enshittification’
- Could we get a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM?
- Craig Mod on code as therapy
- Create Your Own Working Pokédex!
- Cryogenics and other sciences could advance with the help of another bigger particle collider
- Crypto traders keep wanting to touch tungsten cubes for some reason
- DALL-E 2 but every image is a variant of the original
- Dan Appelquist and Lola Odelola on privacy and the Web
- Danielle Speller on burnout, identity, and how to maintain balance
- Danish Students Create A Phone That Dials Up The Internet
- Danny Gonzalez on the weird image AI scams that boomers fall for on Facebook
- Data viz on women’s tops sold on Goodwill’s website
- Dean Burnett on the misunderstandings of smartphones and their effect on the brain
- Decker is a multimedia platform that ‘builds on the legacy of HyperCard’
- Decolonise Science wants to bring more scientific terms to African languages
- DeepMind AI can figure out a molecule’s characteristics by predicting its electron density
- DeepMind enters the language model arena
- Dentists debunking dental delusions
- Did you know that nuclear fission was discovered during Christmas?
- Discriminator: an interactive documentary about facial recognition algorithms trained on Flickr’s facial database
- Dominic-Madori Davis and Tim De Chant on the lack of Black representation in climate tech
- Dominic-Madori Davis on the true need for diverse voices in tech reporting
- Dr Christina Madison answering pharmacology questions for WIRED’s Tech Support
- Dr James Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel Prize for their work in cancer immunotherapy
- Dr James Wootton on the 80s video game that helped scientists win a Nobel Prize
- Dr Kizzmekia S. Corbett on COVID-19 vaccine development and the myths surrounding it
- Dr Nick Davis on ASMR and its neurological effects on the body
- Dr Raychelle Burks on being a Black woman in STEM
- Dr. Anne-Marie Imafidon on STEM and her ‘Stemettes’
- Dr. Dóminique Kemp: the first Black mathematics PhD graduate at Indiana University
- Dubai hosted the first-ever jet suit race
- Dwindling animal populations as dot density images
- Earthquake in a can!
- EFFEKT’s treetop walkway in Norway
- Electric skateboard company Boosted announce layoffs and now looking for a buyer
- Emergency on Planet Earth: 28 trillion tonnes of ice melted since 1994
- Emmanuella Mayaki: the 10-year-old coding genius
- Engineer Man beats a Craigslist scammer with Python
- Engineer Man on programming advice he would’ve given himself
- Engineer Man on programming scenes in TV and movies
- Engineer Man’s Lightning Aware Smart Plug
- Ernie Smith on dead hardware
- Espírito Santo blind snake
- Every Rock Type Pokémon Explained
- exa – a modern replacement for ls
- Federica Fragapane’s Periodic Table of Elements in Danger
- Fibonacci numbers are popping up in unexpected places, according to mathematicians
- Find Your Bind is an app for readers to find books written by authors of colour
- Flurona is BS says doctor who knows what she’s talking about
- Forgotten software: HyperCard
- Fuck Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-autism ableist bullshit
- Fugaku: Japan’s new next-gen supercomputer
- Fullstack Academy’s 15 Tech Orgs Supporting Black Coders
- Gemini is everywhere
- Geoff Graham on the messy ‘AI arms race’
- Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google
- Georgina Baker—a Black female engineer—makes history at the University of Leeds
- Get colour info in your command line with Colorpedia
- Gizmodo on ’12 of Google’s Most Embarrassing Product Failures’
- Gizmodo’s 100 websites that shaped the Internet
- Good news for Oceanic frogs?
- Good uses of AI #1
- Google AI researcher with a vendetta fired in latest example of internal conflict
- Google celebrates Casimir Funk’s 140th birthday with a Doodle
- Google celebrates Mária Telkes in its latest Doodle
- Google release Android Q Beta 3
- Google releases TextFX project, ‘AI-powered tools for rappers, writers and wordsmiths’
- Google says goodbye to the Pixel 5 and hello to the Pixel 5A
- Gorgeous photos of the Moon in May 2021
- Granville T. Woods was a prolific Black engineer
- Guesstimating with π
- Hackaday on the Web’s sad transition from pages to apps
- Hackaday’s Mining and Refining series looks at titanium
- Half-Asleep Chris’s incredible LEGO railway
- Halt and Catch Fire as a modern history lesson
- Halt and Catch Fire text posts memes
- Happy 25th, Windows 95!
- Happy birthday to Alan Emtage, the unsung Black pioneer of search engines
- Happy birthday, Beth A. Brown
- Happy birthday, Marjorie Lee Browne
- Harry Roberts asks ‘why would you use blocking=render?’
- Here are some facts about Uranus you might not have known
- Here’s A Raspberry Pi… In An Old Ferrari Cassette Deck!
- Here’s How To Build Your Own Pokédex on Android
- Hero Nation’s Gaming Warriors Need Your Help!
- Hey, it’s a walnut Bluetooth speaker!
- Hey, remember WebTV?
- Hey, Yoda! What does the Jedi Council say about your Force power level?
- Hippos are terrible chewers
- Holy carbon footprint, Batman! It’s an electric Batmobile!
- Hospitals in Osaka, Japan are struggling with new COVID-19 wave
- How a series of Twitter hashtags have brought Black scientists together
- How accurate are website carbon calculators? Not very, says DebugBear
- How an unsolveable problem taught 3Blue1Brown about topology
- How ASMR videos are teaching machines about matching locations in spatial audio
- How BIG is infinity ACTUALLY?
- How data viz revolutionised problem solving
- How do you solve a problem like the Mpemba effect?
- How does water freeze?
- How hacking McDonald’s ice cream machines left a couple out in the cold
- How has an increase in plastic waste from the COVID-19 pandemic affected our oceans?
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Pick Locks with Forks
- How long will AI remain as artificial intelligence?
- How many payments does it take to break even in Monopoly?
- How Obiageli Nwodoh learnt to use physics in her social justice work
- How Spiro has put 10,000 e-bikes on African roads with mixed results
- How the Williams FW43B Formula 1 car got leaked
- How to access Wikipedia via WhatsApp
- How to browse the Web on a DOS PC with MicroWeb
- How to build an OS in 1,000 lines of code
- How to build your own Zelda-style game in Python
- How to create a Christmas light effect with WLED by John Zanussi
- How to find bad labels in text classification problems using Jupyter and Prodigy
- How to hold up a table with strings
- How to make low poly art with Python
- How to make music with a Elektrosluch 3+ and electromagnetic fields
- How to make peanut butter cookies with ChatGPT
- How to make your own 3D printed moon lamp
- How To Make Your Own Hand Sanitiser
- How to make your own meme generator
- How to run a social network for your friends
- How to run Linux on a thermostat
- How to save Mum’s WhatsApp photos using Python and Twilio
- How to Send an Email in 1984
- How to survive if you’re in a car that’s hanging off a cliff
- How to write sheet music with CSS Grid
- How’s your head (element)?
- HTML for People: a web project by Blake Watson
- Huawei to release HarmonyOS 2.0
- I love physics’ lack of energy, go girl give us nothing!
- Ice wheels, leading the way!
- IEEE’s ‘Jamaica Section’ held a STEM workshop at the University of Technology in Kingston
- Igbo API is the world’s first African language API
- Imperial College London to launch a mentoring scheme for Black students
- Impression on how to improve UX and accessibility for airline websites
- In case you were wondering, you can embed your robots.txt file in a WAV file
- In Not News: rich folks drive global warming the most
- India has landed the first ever spacecraft near the moon’s south pole
- Induction heating, powered by magnets
- Ines Montani and Matthew Honnibal on supervised learning and the ramifications of poor data
- Infinite Mac lets you try Mac operating systems from the past
- Integza built a World War 2 rocket steam turbine because why not?
- Interview: David Majors
- Interview: Jer’Maine Jones, Jr.
- Is ‘decolonisation’ anything more than a buzzword in science?
- Is Facebook the renaissance version of AOL?
- Is Firefox close to extinction?
- Is gold a mineral, metal, or both?
- Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s… both?
- Is it a Pokémon or a programming language?
- Is It Toxic To?
- Is social media a risk to humanity? These scientists think so.
- Is there an ocean on Mimas, Saturn’s moon?
- It’s A Raspberry Pi Zero Handheld Computer!
- It’s time for a digital conservation movement.
- Jamaica’s bauxite problem
- Janus Cycle on the Technophone Excell PC105T: the world’s first pocket-sized mobile phone
- Japan’s prime minister wants to kill hay fever, its ‘national disease’
- Jared Hutchins on how big data created the modern dairy cow
- Jay Hoffmann on the significance of a ‘cool URL’
- Jeffrey Rosenthal answers the internet’s questions about statistics
- Jeremy B. Merrill’s linguistic variations of “Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”
- Jess Peck on the dangers of AI optimism
- Jess Peck on the utility of NLP in SEO
- Jess Romeo on the male-dominant world of computer science
- Jess Sankhavaram-Peck on how and why Google products suck now
- Jim Nielsen reviewed Dieter Bohn’s question ‘what is the Web?’
- JK Brickworks’s infinite LEGO domino ring
- John D. Cook’s three advantages of non-AI models
- Joshua Stein got WiFi into his Macintosh Portable
- JSTOR Daily on how a ‘single atom’ can transform the colour of birds
- JSTOR Daily on the ongoing race to build the tallest building in the world
- K’NEX has a roller coaster physics set
- Kalliroscopes create fluid vortexes that mimic hurricanes
- Kate Crawford says we are misunderstanding what AI is
- Katrina Megget on the chemical complexity of a cup of tea
- Keidra Chaney on ‘Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy’
- Kiara Tymec of Kiara’s Workshop made a working Poké Ball
- Knowable Magazine on a new drug that could reduce the effects of kidney disease in Black Americans of West African descent
- Knowable Magazine on Black American zoologist Charles Henry Turner
- Knowable Magazine on the Cybathlon
- Knowable on the ‘growing link between microbes, mood and mental health’
- Kodak’s secret nuclear reactor
- Korey Kiepert on roller coasters and what makes them work
- Learn how to code in Python with this ASMR video
- Leeds Trinity University graduates receive top Psychology award
- LGR on weird computer designs of the 2010s
- LGR remembers the Cybiko
- LGR’s Oddware Christmas 2022
- Light speed comparisons
- Links about JWST and the sharpest image of the distant universe ever taken
- Links about the 2021 solar eclipse
- LLMs + DNA = OMG?
- Logarithms explained in the style of Bob Ross
- Look, it’s a 3D-printed bee hive!
- Look, it’s a black hole!
- Low Level Learning on reverse engineering the ESXiArgs virus
- Machine learning and NLP with Dr. Rachael Tatman
- Machine learning: the key to early detection of diseases and threats to brain health via neuroimaging
- macOS Big Sur public beta is out now
- Magazine photos fooled age-verification cameras in Japan
- Maggie Appleton on the dark forest theory and generative AI’s place within it
- Magnetic-core memory from Soviet Russia
- Maho Motoyama’s geometric Christmas paper boxes
- Making a WipE’out” track using quantum levitation
- Manuel Moreale on Shorts and ‘User Hostile Experience’
- Marcia Wendorf on F1’s changes since 1950
- Marine ecology has dark fish
- Mark Liberman on writing with AI
- Martin Lersch’s mathematically perfect Christmas cookie cutter
- Marvel Studios’s Black Panther exhibit, featuring Shuri’s lab, at Science Museum in London
- Mary W. Jackson – NASA’s first Black female engineer
- Maths paper claims that black holes are stable
- Matt Parker looks at the maths behind needing just 27 lottery tickets to guarantee a win
- Max Brückner’s amazing collection of polyhedral models
- Max Woolf on the ‘super effectiveness’ of Pokémon embeddings using JSON and images
- Maybe there are some good use cases for ChatGPT after all…
- Medical biases need to be addressed before machine learning can improve health care
- Meet the Odyssey X86J4105: A single-board computer with Windows 10 and 4K support
- Meredith Broussard on the need to use AI less and think more
- Metro on Alcor Life Extension Foundation and its 199 cryopreserved patients
- MIT on Jordan Harrod, a PhD researcher using AI to study the brain
- Mongabay on breadfruit’s biodiversatility
- Moore’s law and why transistors can’t get much smaller
- My new favourite blog post is about hypertext from 1998
- NASA’s history of astronauts of colour including Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. and Dr. Mae Jemison
- Natalie Portman in Datawrapper form
- Nature.com on Black women with ovarian cancer requiring a “greater focus”
- Nearly half of the Web’s traffic is a mix of good bot/bad bot, according to Imperva
- New lawsuit claims Apple Watch sensor uses racial bias
- New York Times on Loretta Staples, a pioneering UI designer
- Next year, it’s a double solar eclipse in the North America, all the way
- Nicole Froio on Black Brazilian activists maintaining its history in the nation’s tech future
- Nicoline Sørensen on women’s soccer and engineering
- Nitter: a free, privacy-focused, and open source front-end for Twitter
- Noctalgia: a term to describe ‘the painful loss of dark skies’
- Nostalgia as a physical pain reliever?
- Nostalgia Nerd on Geocities
- Not all galaxies are created equal, perhaps
- Not all infinities are equal, and some infinities are more bigger than others
- Now that’s what I call a rim blaster!
- Now we have to worry about solar geoengineering?
- Now you can run Windows 95 in an Electron app
- Now You Can Simulate The Universe With IllustrisTNG. Sort Of.
- Old Tamagotchi, new hardware
- opensrcai.com – a curated list of open source AI tech
- orama – a lightweight JS vector search module
- Otter Wiki
- OverAPI.com: the place to go for programming cheatsheets
- Pakistan: the most glacial country in the world
- Paul Ford on the climate change as a new dot-com bubble
- Paul Ford on the myth of ‘real’ programming
- Plain HTML works
- Play Tomb Raider In Your Browser
- Police custody deaths and the fallacy of sickle cell causation
- PopSci’s ‘Wonders Of The Year 2020’ (from 2011)
- Practical Engineering lists every type of bridge in 15 minutes
- Preserving Black Twitter
- ProjectFunction creates pathways for marginalised groups in tech
- Pure Virtual C++: a free one-day virtual conference for the C++ community
- Quanta on how mathematics can help oncology and cancer care in the future
- Quanta on Karl Weierstrass’s controversial influence on calculus
- Quanta’s 2022 in Review
- Quanta’s year in mathematics and computer science
- Quantum computing with an Arduino?
- Queer in AI’s interview with Vagrant Gautam
- Race And Gender Inequality In Tech Means White Men Earn More Than Every Other Demographic
- Rachael Tatman on the trouble with sentiment analysis
- RapidAPI’s ‘State of APIs’ offers insights on APIs and programming languages
- RARE! Sega’s ‘Michael Jackson in Scramble Training’
- Raspberry Pi Pico W now has WiFi
- Recent study shows an association between ASMR, neuroticism, and trait & state anxiety
- Recreate a nuclear fission chain reaction with this cool script
- Recreating the PIN cracking scene from Terminator 2 with an Atari Portfolio
- Redditors on tech inventions that were ahead of their time
- Reebok’s biodegradable shoes
- Regex ain’t so bad!
- Reliving the days of dial-up internet via Windows 98
- Remember eWorld, Apple’s attempt at an ISP?
- Remember Fluorescent Multilayer Discs?
- Remember when Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion in 2008?
- Remembering the Sharp Touch Wood phone
- Reproof on the Canon Cat
- Rest of World on Big Tech abusing African workforces for AI
- Rest of World on generative AI promoting social stereotypes
- Rest of World on the world’s last internet cafes
- Restoring an engine in Afghanistan
- RetroBytes on 90’s dial-up and making your own ISP
- rhyal.com is website hosted on a Macintosh SE/30
- RIP Dr. Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe and co-inventor of the PDF
- RIP Pocket
- RIP Tucows Downloads (1993-2020)
- Robots like Pluribus are now beating people at poker
- Robots with googly eyes
- Ronald Mallett: a true Afrofuturist
- Ryan O’Neill & his K’Nex roller coasters
- Samuel and his electric, solar-powered wooden motorbike
- Santa baby, slip cryonic preservation under the tree
- Science fiction and its depiction of environmental issues
- Science media on the super blue moon from last month
- Science Shouldn’t Come at the Expense of Black Lives
- Scientific American on Rebecca Lee Crumpler, America’s first Black female physician
- Sea urchins are so cool
- Seirdy on search engines with their own indexes
- Senamile Masango and her career of breaking down barriers for girls in STEM
- SEO Bytes explains search engine optimisation with dogs
- Shank Mods on the Sony PVM-4300: the world’s largest CRT
- Sharon Levy asks if animals get PTSD
- Shout out to Ashwin Sah and Mehtaab Sawhney on their big number proof
- Shout out to Calcea Rujean Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson on their new Pythagorean proof using trigonometry
- Shout out to Caleb Anderson, the 13-year-old Georgia Tech student studying aerospace engineering
- Shout out to Dr André Isaacs, the chemistry professor bringing joy and education via social media
- Shout out to Dr. Muyinatu “Bisi” Bell who developed a new imaging algorithm to help dark-skinned patients
- Shout out to Elijah Muhammad, the youngest Black person to earn a college degree in Computer Science and Cybersecurity
- Shout out to James West, the inventor of the electret microphone
- Shout out to Nira Chamberlain
- Shout out to Sabine Adeline Fanta Yadang and Hadidjatou Daïrou for winning a Women in Science award
- Shout out to Samantha Mugeni Niyoyita
- Silly is a Python library for producing silly test data
- Skilltype: A Black-owned talent marketplace for information professionals
- Slash Gear on why Windows Phone failed
- So burning NFTs is a thing
- soap.systems on the crappiness of smart TVs
- Social media influencer threatens victim over domain name
- Some arbitrary facts about the number 2024
- Some arbitrary facts about the number 2025
- Some Arbitrary Facts About The Number 280
- Some Christmas mathematics with lights around a tree
- Some links about pi for Pi Day
- Someone made a Raspberry Pi Pico Tamagotchi
- Sorting algorithms on… Minecraft?
- South Korea to migrate government systems to Linux
- Space.com’s 10 fun Christmas space facts
- SparseGPT is a proposed way to make large language models smaller and maintain accuracy
- Speedify Labs Built A Raspberry Pi Live Streaming Backpack
- Stack Overflow, the coding saviour
- Stefan Baack on ‘Common Crawl’s Impact on Generative AI’
- Stephon Alexander: the greatest jazz physicist of our time
- Steve Kobes on the life of a pixel
- Steve Schoger Gives A Masterclass In UI Design
- StezStix Fix bought an Odroid GO Advance and attempted to fix it
- STOP exploring the Ocean
- Study Python & Chill with Tae’lur Alexis on Twitch
- Study shows alligators can regrow their tails
- Sun Clock: a 24-hour clock that tells more than just the time
- Supercomputer provides a COVID-19 eureka moment
- Supporting Black students as they embark on their STEM journeys
- Surprise your loved one this Christmas with a Windows Phone
- Sylvester James Gates Jr. looks back at his career during the 2021 MIT Compton Lecture
- T2 the Tea Bot makes the perfect brew in the perfect time
- Tam Tam: the cutest baby pygmy hippo in Japan
- Tangled Christmas lights? There’s a science to it
- Tatiana Mac on Hacking Digital Style Guides for Accessibility
- Tatiana Mac on how privilege defines performance
- Tatiana Mac tells stories of their professional and personal growth for the ReadME Project
- Teaching kids Java and Python after school with board games and video games
- Tech Tangents on Windows XP Media Center Edition
- Terry Callier: the computer programmer
- Tetration and why you probably never learnt about it at school
- Text classification using… gzip??
- That time Bill Gates got pie in his face
- That time scientists in New Zealand rebuilt a model of the Kairuku penguin
- That time when an orange juice company dumped 12k tons of orange peels on barren soil in Costa Rica
- That’s a lot of hypertext transfer protocols!
- The ‘tortured phrases’ found in fake computer science research papers
- The ‘vantafish’ that absorbs nearly all light that hits it
- The 12 APIs of Christmas
- The 1789: the hypercar that runs on biomethane
- The Anom and ArcaneOS: built by the FBI to catch criminals
- The Apple Archive Is An Advert Treasure Trove
- The Arctic is losing its soul
- The Arctic life of plants
- The Banff Wildlife Crossings Project
- The Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- The Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory
- The case for HCL (Hue-Chroma-Luminance)
- The cause of depression as a chemical imbalance? Guess again!
- The cellular marvels of pregnancy
- The Christmas trees of the sea
- The complicity of social media platforms with climate change misinformation
- The courtship rituals of tundra swans
- The critical engineering work of Dennisa Thomas
- The Czech Republic: home of the longest suspension bridge in the world
- The data visualisations of W.E.B. Du Bois
- The DatCode Podcast
- The Democratic Republic of Congo is now the second-largest producer of copper in the world
- The difference between cryonics and cryogenics
- The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain by Francesca Sobande
- The einstein tile: a never-repeating pattern made from a 13-sided shape
- The Electrodeck
- The environmental impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict
- The Ergast Developer API: an API of historical F1 data
- The ever-disappearing Antarctic sea ice
- The experiences of Black women in aerospace engineering
- The Extremely Large Telescope
- The Falkirk Wheel connects two Scottish canals
- The Galton board and the Normal distribution
- The geometric distributions of Pokémon
- The Gömböc is a self-righting shape
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