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Blue_Box_at_the_Powerhouse_Museum by Maksym Kozlenko (Creative Commons

Technology

Hackers Built their own Clubhouse in the 1970s from Secret Gathering Spots on Phone Networks

18 Apr 2021 6:00am, by

Culture / Development / Technology

Programming and Model Railroads

11 Apr 2021 6:00am, by

Culture

The Creator of Curl Remembers 23 Wildly Successful Years

4 Apr 2021 4:00am, by

Machine Learning

Can We Teach an AI to Play Dungeons and Dragons?

28 Mar 2021 6:00am, by

Proposed exploded diagram of Antikythera mechanism

Culture / Technology

Researchers Re-Create the Antikythera Mechanism, the World’s Oldest Computer

21 Mar 2021 6:00am, by

Screenshot of a Gemini site as viewed in Lagrange

Culture / Development

Souped-Up Gopher: Project Gemini’s Plan to Revolutionize Internet Browsing

14 Mar 2021 6:00am, by

Brendan Eich on Lex Fridman podcast - 2021

Culture / Development

Brendan Eich on How JavaScript Survived the Browser Wars

7 Mar 2021 6:00am, by

Artist's concept of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - via NASA PIA23961

Edge / IoT / Linux

How the First Helicopter on Mars Uses Off-the-Shelf Hardware and Linux

28 Feb 2021 6:00am, by

Culture / Development

What Happens When You Find a Decades-Old Bug?

21 Feb 2021 6:00am, by

Greetings_from_California,_Pictorial_Wonderland,_art-tone_series_(NBY_7644) - public domain via WikiCommons

Culture

Are Tech Workers ‘Fleeing’ Silicon Valley? Here’s What the Data Shows

14 Feb 2021 6:00am, by

Screenshot - Speaking at POPL 2021, Advait Sarkar (from Microsoft Research Cambridge)

Data / Development

Microsoft Excel Becomes a Proper Programming Language

7 Feb 2021 6:00am, by

Culture / Development

Objective-C’s Roots in the Life of Brad Cox

31 Jan 2021 6:00am, by

LinkSys Wireless G Router via Wikipedia

Culture / Linux / Open Source

The Open Source Lesson of the Linksys WRT54G Router

24 Jan 2021 6:00am, by

Edge / IoT / Technology

Gadgets, Flying Cars, and Virtual Workplaces: CES’s Virtual 2021 Show

17 Jan 2021 6:00am, by

Development / Technology

Math or Language: Which Part of the Brain Processes Computer Code?

10 Jan 2021 6:00am, by

Culture / Development

The Game of Life: The Sprawling Legacy of Mathematician John Horton Conway

7 Jan 2021 3:00pm, by

Culture / Linux

Precious Times: 2020’s Forgotten Tech Stories

1 Jan 2021 3:00am, by

By LukeB20161933 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, httpscommons.wikimedia.orgwindex.phpcurid=48724045

Culture

What a Systems Programmer Learned from Working at a Fast-Food Restaurant

26 Dec 2020 6:00am, by

vSpatial (via Oculus blog)

Culture / Development

TNS Gift Guide 2020: Practical Projects and Fabulous Fun

20 Dec 2020 6:02am, by

Culture / Technology

Days of Yore: On the Discovery of Abandoned Soviet-era Computers

13 Dec 2020 6:00am, by

Culture / Development

‘Advent of Code’ Builds a Programming Community Around Puzzles

6 Dec 2020 6:00am, by

Culture / Development / Linux

Greg Kroah-Hartman: Lessons for Developers from 20 Years of Linux Kernel Work

29 Nov 2020 6:00am, by

2020 Virtual Python Core Development Sprint - Wrap up - participants (screenshot via YouTube).png

Culture / Development

How Community Prevailed at Python’s Virtual Core Development Sprint

26 Nov 2020 9:00am, by

Lennart Poettering in 2015

Data / Linux / Security

Systemd’s Lennart Poettering Wants to Bring Linux Home Directories into the 21st Century

22 Nov 2020 6:00am, by

"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek at the 2016 USO Gala, Washington, D.C., Oct. 20, 2016. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jim Greenhill)

Culture

The Great and Geeky Legacy of ‘Jeopardy!’ Host Alex Trebek

15 Nov 2020 6:00am, by

Culture

Millions of Remote Workers Are Now Thinking About Moving

8 Nov 2020 6:00am, by