For Google’s Cloud, 18 Minutes of Downtime Is an Eternity
Google’s engineering VP offers a post-mortem analysis of Monday night’s outage. Continue reading For Google’s Cloud, 18 Minutes of Downtime Is an Eternity
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Why Is Stephen Hawking Suddenly So Cool With Aliens Now?
We have some theories. Continue reading Why Is Stephen Hawking Suddenly So Cool With Aliens Now?
How Flickr Tags Can Reveal Entire Acoustic Atlases of Cities
‘Monkey Malaria’ Is Poised To Become More Deadly—and More Transmissible
Development and deforestation are helping push a once-mellow form of malaria into virulence. Continue reading ‘Monkey Malaria’ Is Poised To Become More Deadly—and More Transmissible
Happy Anniversary to the World’s First Cell-Phone Call
“I’m calling you from a cell phone, a real handheld portable cell phone.” Continue reading Happy Anniversary to the World’s First Cell-Phone Call
How Machine Learning Will Change Our Relationship to Food
Quantifying what we eat is hard even for computers. Continue reading How Machine Learning Will Change Our Relationship to Food
Dronecatcher Is a Drone for Stealing Other Drones
It’s pretty good at it too. Continue reading Dronecatcher Is a Drone for Stealing Other Drones
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Debugging Code
There’s a reason corporations pay big money for bugs. Continue reading The Agony and the Ecstasy of Debugging Code
The DoD Is Now Taking Applications for Its First Ever Bug Bounty Program
Hack the Pentagon will run from April 18 to May 12. Continue reading The DoD Is Now Taking Applications for Its First Ever Bug Bounty Program
Taking on Depression via Electrodes and the Brain’s Secret Calcium Signals
New research uncovers a mechanism behind the success of transcranial direct current stimulation. Continue reading Taking on Depression via Electrodes and the Brain’s Secret Calcium Signals