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How to make remote work work TechCrunch columnist Jon Evans has an Extra Crunch-exclusive look on what it takes to get remote work working within an organization. Evans, who has been the remote CTO of...

The US appears to be acting on its promise to aggressively respond to cyberwarfare threats. New York Times sources say Cyber Command has planted offensive malware in Russia's electrical grid, no...

Since 2005 Randall Munroe has been the author/illustrator of the popular nerdy comic strip XKCD -- and he's now planning to publish "the world's least useful self-help book." How To: Absurd Scientific...

Read the original article in CodeThat.todayTerraform is the de facto tool in a DevOps arsenal, and it helps with the enablement of infrastructure-as-code deployments. It can manage and provision softw...

Can you make out what you're looking at in the obscure teaser above? Neither can we -- but it does represent the future of BMW's performance cars. The automaker has posted a teaser for a Vis...

Amazon Spark, we hardly cared about knew you.The shopping social network (a kinda gross concept to start with) disappeared from the internet and Amazon's app some time in the past couple days, accordi...

Welcome back to this week’s transcribed edition of Equity. This was a big week of news that the Equity duo had to cover. Kate was at the Code Conference, Fortnite maker, Epic Games bought Housep...

"It took 10 months to get it done, but the Granite State is now officially a Geeky State," writes Concord Monitor science reporter David Brooks. "The latest New Hampshire Historical Highway Marker, ce...

Long-time Slashdot reader jrepin writes: The KDE community has released Plasma 5.16, the newest iteration of the popular desktop environment. It features an improved notification system, Not only can ...

Amazon Game Studios has quietly laid off dozens of employees on the last day of E3, one of the biggest video game conferences in the world, according to Kotaku. The company reportedly told affected em...

Likely StatesLet's talk about statistical mechanics for a second. Suppose we have a system of 4 particles, labeled a through d, each of which can be in one of two states. We can call them the 0 ...

JustAnotherOldGuy quotes Threatpost:A high-severity bug impacting two popular command-line text editing applications, Vim and Neovim, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands. Security ...

An anonymous reader quotes the Daily Beast:The online forum where alleged Chabad of Poway shooter John Earnest shared a livestream of the shooting was served a search warrant in April for the IP and m...

Top AI researchers race to detect 'deepfake' videos: 'We are outgunned'Drew Harwell,The Washington PostThe 2016 US presidential election was plagued by fake news and election meddl...

Some of the best real-time insights into Tesla and its global fleet of electric vehicles outside the confines of its Silicon Valley headquarters might be through the lens of TezLab, a tiny upstart i...

Less than six months after releasing the disappointing interactive experiment “Bandersnatch,” Netflix’s science fiction anthology series “Black Mirror” is back with three...

"Caterpillar Inc. is trying to stop a tiny cafe from using the word cat," reports Fast Company. Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes:Caterpillar wishes to cancels the coffee shop's trademark...

Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought pro...

This question is directed towards more of the practical side of both Frontend and Backend programming.I have recently picked up Functional Programming and I am not sure if I should actually start buil...

Welcome everyone!I am very happy to show you BrowserWorker, my latest project. The goal of this library is to help you set up a Service Workers more easily than having to deal with a lot of verbose sy...

Python reached another new all-time high on the TIOBE index, now representing 8.5% of the results for the search query +"<language> programming" on the top 25 search engines. Python overtook C++...

When you apply for a job, your resume has a crucial role: to get you an interview. It needs to grab the attention of the hiring manager, who probably has the unenviable chore of sifting through hundr...

For as long as we've played games, there have been players willing to break the rules in order to win. Whether it's rolling weighted dice, counting cards, or hip checking pinball machines, y...

In the academic, scientific and research communities, presenting your findings and research on large format posters during conferences is common practice. Often, these posters are set up with key rese...

Image from https://medium.com/@tomsoderlund/micro-frontends-a-microservice-approach-to-front-end-web-development-f325ebdadc16Patrick, a friend of mine in the web development industry, recently alerted...

It's not a new idea that people born in the times since, or just before the digital revolution have different brains than our predecessors. We lean towards stimulation, towards a certain variability i...

fahrbot-bot shares a report from Ars Technica: One patient has died and another became seriously ill after fecal transplants inadvertently seeded their innards with a multi-drug resistant bacterial in...

Welcome back to our Diversity in Design series on Envato Tuts+. Discover four talented artists with inspiring styles you'll love.4 Artists You Should Know: Diversity in Design Celebrate the work of t...

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.Now that E3 2019 is over there's plenty of time to catch up on all of the gaming news revealed this week. Once you're through with that, we've got s...

Who needs a holiday sale? Sometimes there's no better time than the thick of summer to find deals. We should know - we've found ten deep discounts on some must-have items. Whether you're searching for...

In this week's newsletter: Epic Games throws a houseparty, CrowdStrike soars and a VR startup raises fresh funds....

iOS 13 is going to be a whale of an update, available for free this fall for iPhone SE, 6S, and newer models. It comes with much heralded features like a system-wide dark mode, redesigned Photos app, ...

Originally published at https://samvloeberghs.be on June 14, 2019 Target audienceThis article and guide on setting up a simple memory cache for an Angular Universal website or application is targ...

Huge technology policy questions are looming for whoever takes the top jobs at the European Union in the coming months. Decisions that could radically reshape tech business models, reconfigure the com...

What might be the first real sign that a new NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV device is coming has now surfaced.This is based on the spotting of a device in the Google Play Console with...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: On Friday afternoon, the Israeli forensics firm and law enforcement contractor Cellebrite publicly announced a new version of its product known as a Uni...

TL;DR: The slim, 17-inch LG gram laptop is on sale in the PCMag Shop for just $1,499. (That's $200 less than what you'd pay on Amazon or the LG website.)Lightweight laptops are excellent for on-the-go...

It may be last minute, but it still isn’t too late to pick up a gift for your dad to help celebrate Father’s Day this weekend. (And check out our last-minute gift guide for more options.)S...

TL;DR: The ionbox Negative Ion Generator is on sale for $59.99, a savings of $15.When talking about air pollution, smoke belched by cars and trucks, fumes from factories, wildfires, and emissions from...

TL;DR: Build your own gadgets with this Arduino e-books bundle that's on sale — you can name your own price. Want to indulge your inner builder? Arduino, the open-source electronic prototyp...

The strange case of Samsung's Galaxy Fold may drag on throughout the summer, according to a report in The Korea Herald. The outlet -- which reported in May that Samsung would reach a conclusion o...

fahrbot-bot shares a report from ScienceAlert: Antlia 2, the "ghost of a galaxy" orbiting the Milky Way, is a dark horse in more ways than one. Not only is it so faint it was only just discovered last...

Right now on my team, we're in the middle of onboarding the first of several new team members. There's been lots of discussion around the team on the resources we should put into a list for those bran...

An anonymous reader quotes a report The Weather Channel: Scientists studying climate change expected layers of permafrost in the Canadian Arctic to melt by the year 2090. Instead, it's happening now. ...

JustAnotherOldGuy shares a report from Boing Boing: For years, Paul Hansmeier terrorized internet users through his copyright trolling racket Prenda Law, evading the law through shell companies and fr...

Just days after AGs representing ten states filed suit to stop the combining of Sprint and T-Mobile, the New York Times reports the Justice Department is "moving closer" to approval. Doing s...

sandbagger writes: Photographer Jim Olive's helicopter shot of Houston was used by the University of Houston on their website after they removed his watermark, a definite no-no particularly since the ...

VuePress is a Vue-powered static site generator. It's great for writing technical documentation, and I've been using it in production for the Bocadillo docs site since December 2018.I recently learnt ...

dryriver writes: If anybody remembers the good old Commodore 64, one thing stood out about this once popular 8-bit computer -- as soon as you turned it on, you could type in BASIC (Beginner's All-purp...

Amazon’s two-year-old Instagram competitor, Amazon Spark, is no more. Hoping to capitalize on the social shopping trend and tap into the power of online influencers, Amazon in 2017 launched its ...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The 2D wonder-material graphene could greatly benefit from the widespread experimentation of open-source use. In its current state, graphene is pri...