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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
- 100 facts from Mental Floss about planet Earth
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- A Black Internet Timeline
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- A good explainer on how the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines won’t alter your DNA
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- A mathematician explains infinity in 5 minutes
- A MiniDisc Player can now support full data transfer thanks to this hack
- 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 Sony flip phone from 2000 running Android 9
- A syllabus based on Halt and Catch Fire
- A unified geologic map of the Moon
- A viral history of viruses
- A virologist, an immunologist, and an epidemiologist walk into a lab…
- 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
- AI is White AF in pop culture says researchers
- AI: the greatest Pokémon master
- Algorithms power machine learning but what if machine learning improved those algorithms?
- Amaroq for Mastodon
- An ‘eye-opening’ video debunking ocular myths
- An early internet virus, as reported in 1988
- An electric 3-wheeler skateboard with a few tricks up its sleeve
- An NLP review of video game review scores
- An ode to a pixel
- Android Didn’t Kill Windows Phone, They Let Themselves Die
- Anna Lytical codes a website with nothing but copy and paste
- Apparently, Lycos is still around
- 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
- Arsenijs Picugins on Raspberry Pis and SD card corruptions
- 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
- Biopython: a set of free Python tools for computational molecular biology
- Black holes, lasers, and quantum computing
- 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
- Browsing The Web Without CSS
- Building A Raspberry Pi Into A Retro Gaming Machine
- c-jump: the geekiest board game ever
- 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
- Cars and their relationship with Moore’s Law
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein discussing ‘The Disordered Cosmos’ on NPR’s Short Wave
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on women of colour in STEM
- Charlton D. McIlwain on Black digital activists
- 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’
- Could we get a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM?
- Craig Mod on code as therapy
- Create Your Own Working Pokédex!
- 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
- Data viz on women’s tops sold on Goodwill’s website
- 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
- Discriminator: an interactive documentary about facial recognition algorithms trained on Flickr’s facial database
- Dr James Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel Prize for their work in cancer immunotherapy
- 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
- Earthquake in a can!
- 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
- Every Rock Type Pokémon Explained
- Federica Fragapane’s Periodic Table of Elements in Danger
- 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
- Fugaku: Japan’s new next-gen supercomputer
- Fullstack Academy’s 15 Tech Orgs Supporting Black Coders
- Georgina Baker—a Black female engineer—makes history at the University of Leeds
- Gizmodo on ’12 of Google’s Most Embarrassing Product Failures’
- Gizmodo’s 100 websites that shaped the Internet
- Google AI researcher with a vendetta fired in latest example of internal conflict
- Google release Android Q Beta 3
- Google says goodbye to the Pixel 5 and hello to the Pixel 5A
- Granville T. Woods was a prolific Black engineer
- 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!
- 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!
- 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 ASMR videos are teaching machines about matching locations in spatial audio
- How data viz revolutionised problem solving
- 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 the Williams FW43B Formula 1 car got leaked
- How to access Wikipedia via WhatsApp
- How to build your own Zelda-style game in Python
- 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 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
- Huawei to release HarmonyOS 2.0
- Ice wheels, leading the way!
- Igbo API is the world’s first African language API
- Imperial College London to launch a mentoring scheme for Black students
- In Not News: rich folks drive global warming the most
- 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 it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s… both?
- Is social media a risk to humanity? These scientists think so.
- It’s A Raspberry Pi Zero Handheld Computer!
- It’s time for a digital conservation movement.
- Jeffrey Rosenthal answers the internet’s questions about statistics
- Jess Romeo on the male-dominant world of computer science
- Jim Nielsen reviewed Dieter Bohn’s question ‘what is the Web?’
- K’NEX has a roller coaster physics set
- Kalliroscopes create fluid vortexes that mimic hurricanes
- Kate Crawford says we are misunderstanding what AI is
- 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
- Let’s Build! – ODROID-GO + New Project News
- LGR remembers the Cybiko
- Links about the 2021 solar eclipse
- Logarithms explained in the style of Bob Ross
- Look, it’s a black hole!
- 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
- Making a WipE’out” track using quantum levitation
- Marcia Wendorf on F1’s changes since 1950
- Marine ecology has dark fish
- Martin Lersch’s mathematically perfect Christmas cookie cutter
- Mary W. Jackson – NASA’s first Black female engineer
- 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
- MIT on Jordan Harrod, a PhD researcher using AI to study the brain
- 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”
- New York Times on Loretta Staples, a pioneering UI designer
- Nicoline Sørensen on women’s soccer and engineering
- Nitter: a free, privacy-focused, and open source front-end for Twitter
- Nostalgia as a physical pain reliever?
- Nostalgia Nerd on Geocities
- Now we have to worry about solar geoengineering?
- Now You Can Simulate The Universe With IllustrisTNG. Sort Of.
- Old Tamagotchi, new hardware
- OverAPI.com: the place to go for programming cheatsheets
- 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
- Play Your Cards Byte With The 8Bit Deck
- Police custody deaths and the fallacy of sickle cell causation
- PopSci’s ‘Wonders Of The Year 2020’ (from 2011)
- ProjectFunction creates pathways for marginalised groups in tech
- Quanta’s year in mathematics and computer science
- Quantum computing with an Arduino?
- 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
- Reebok’s biodegradable shoes
- Regex ain’t so bad!
- Reliving the days of dial-up internet via Windows 98
- Remember Fluorescent Multilayer Discs?
- Remember when Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion in 2008?
- Remembering the Sharp Touch Wood phone
- 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 Tucows Downloads (1993-2020)
- Robots like Pluribus are now beating people at poker
- Ronald Mallett: a true Afrofuturist
- Ryan O’Neill & his K’Nex roller coasters
- Samuel and his electric, solar-powered wooden motorbike
- Science fiction and its depiction of environmental issues
- Science Shouldn’t Come at the Expense of Black Lives
- Sea urchins are so cool
- Senamile Masango and her career of breaking down barriers for girls in STEM
- SEO Dogs explains search engine optimisation with dogs
- Sharon Levy asks if animals get PTSD
- Shout out to Caleb Anderson, the 13-year-old Georgia Tech student studying aerospace engineering
- Skilltype: A Black-owned talent marketplace for information professionals
- So burning NFTs is a thing
- Social media influencer threatens victim over domain name
- Some Arbitrary Facts About The Number 280
- Sorting algorithms on… Minecraft?
- South Korea to migrate government systems to Linux
- Speedify Labs Built A Raspberry Pi Live Streaming Backpack
- 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
- Study Python & Chill with Tae’lur Alexis on Twitch
- Study shows alligators can regrow their tails
- Supercomputer provides a COVID-19 eureka moment
- Supporting Black students as they embark on their STEM journeys
- 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
- 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
- That time Bill Gates got pie in his face
- The ‘tortured phrases’ found in fake computer science research papers
- 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 Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory
- The case for HCL (Hue-Chroma-Luminance)
- The cellular marvels of pregnancy
- The Christmas trees of the sea
- The complicity of social media platforms with climate change misinformation
- 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 difference between cryonics and cryogenics
- The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain by Francesca Sobande
- The Electrodeck
- The environmental impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict
- The Ergast Developer API: an API of historical F1 data
- The experiences of Black women in aerospace engineering
- The Falkirk Wheel connects two Scottish canals
- The Galton board and the Normal distribution
- The Gömböc is a self-righting shape
- The hgTerm – A Palm-Sized Raspberry Pi Mini Laptop
- The History of CSS
- The Homer curve
- The insightfulness of musical dissonance, intuition and quantum physics
- The internet cafe refugees of Japan
- The Internet, According to 1996
- The joys of e (Euler’s number)
- The LA Times on the new James Webb Space Telescope
- The Lenin Museum running on Apple II computers
- The Levine Sequence
- The LockPickingLawyer actually recommended a lock!
- The Million Dollar Homepage and its link depreciation
- The Moon having a wobble could have an effect on Earth’s climate crisis
- The most important metals in a smartphone
- The most underrated list of web browsers on the Internet
- The mysterious migrations of North Pacific loggerhead turtles
- The need for speed: skating with a jetpack
- The New York Times on IBM Watson
- The physics behind Wile E. Coyote’s 10 billion-volt electromagnet
- The Pixel 4 is dead—Long live the Pixel 4
- The power of hyperlinks and how they changed everything
- The pros and cons of language models searching the Web for its data
- The Quantum Internet
- The radioactive boar-pigs of Fukushima
- The Raspberry Pi as a tool for biological sciences
- The Raspberry Pi biscuit dipper
- The Raspberry Pi water gun
- The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
- The science behind carnival scams
- The top 11 posts of 2021
- The truth and tragedy of oxygen masks in planes
- The UN warns climate change is ‘accelerating’ and we must reduce our emissions
- The uniqueness of Puente Laguna Garzón
- The US now has the world’s fastest supercomputer
- The Veluwemeer Aqueduct and navigable aqueducts
- The Verge releases its Tech Survey for 2020
- The Version Museum
- The VK-01 off-world bartender: a Raspberry Pi cocktail maker
- The Winamp Skin Museum
- The world’s largest moving K’Nex vehicle
- The Y2K Problem, Described by LGR
- The Yeah Science Report #1
- There aren’t enough Black scientists and researchers in climate science
- There still aren’t enough Black speakers at neuroscience conferences
- There Was a Third Party Floppy Disk Add-On For The SNES
- There’s A New Theory Explaining Why The Earth’s Core Doesn’t Melt
- There’s a new unofficial Apple museum in Warsaw
- This Dude Made A Nintendo Switch Clone And It’s Colossal
- This mini iMac is actually a custom Raspberry Pi 4
- This Raspberry Pi Electric Skateboard Is So Cool
- This Raspberry Pi Media Player Plays Simpsons Episodes at Random
- This Raspberry Pi TV simulator will take you back to the old days of CRT television viewing
- This Word Does Not Exist makes up words with AI
- Thoughts on the new $4 Raspberry Pi Pico microcontoller
- Thunder Roads: visualising the 2021 Formula One racing season
- TIL: cities have their own microbial signatures
- TIL: Louis Vuitton once ‘made’ a handheld computer
- TIL: Tungsten and gold are ‘conflict minerals’
- Time: The History & Future of Everything (according to Kurzgesagt)
- Tipping the balance for Black engineering
- Tired: laptop. Wired: tabletop
- Track repetitive strain injury (RSI) with this Pokémon-themed device and machine learning
- Tshepo Dipheko and his chemistry in the kitchen
- Tungsten: it’s a heavy metal!
- Turning old face masks into burnable fuel via pyrolysis
- Twitter Does The Bare Minimum By “Pausing” Blue Ticks
- Uranus will be visible tomorrow so be prepared
- UrAvgConsumer Complete His 19th Massive Tech Unboxing
- UrAvgConsumer’s Top 10 Tech Life Hacks of 2019
- Urban Coders Guild are empowering their students to digitally rebuild Tulsa’s Black Wall Street
- Urban explorers uncover Soviet computers from the 70s
- Vaccines & Why They’re So Important
- Virtues of a roundabout
- W3C is going non-profit
- Watch this amazing K’Nex pinball machine
- Watch This Old Super Soaker Restore Itself to Original Condition
- Web Design: The Evolution of the Digital World 1990 – Today by Rob Ford
- Web Development History and internet history from a dev perspective
- Web predictions for 1995 and 1999
- What can you do after you’ve had the COVID-19 vaccine?
- What Danny Guo learned by relearning HTML
- What did tech think of JavaScript in 1995?
- What if the Earth suddenly turned into a black hole?
- What if the world turned to gold?
- What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?
- What is ASMR and why does it give people “brain orgasms”?
- What is Sailfish OS? Huawei might use it to replace Android
- What is the Internet, Anyway?
- What’s the least viewed Wikipedia article? Colin Morris tried to find out.
- Why COVID-19 vaccines aren’t comparable
- Why do gamblers risk it all on longshots?
- Why doesn’t mathematics have a replication crisis like other fields?
- Why is Richard Feynman so revered?
- WIRED on facial recognition in crime prevention (or should that be crime creation)
- Wired on Timnit Gebru and her tumultuous time at Google
- Woah, someone cracked the Apple Pippin!
- Wordle from a maths perspective
- Would you let algorithms run your life for a week?
