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Dolphin Progress Report
June was a month where a lot of important features were merged, but few of them had to do with actual emulation. Every emulator has its own philosophy and goals. While the primary goal is usually to emulate the console at hand, many emulators place secondary goals on various features...
DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing
Today we are announcing that there will be a price change on some of our products from July 1, 2022, combined with the introduction of a new, more affordable $4 Droplet.
Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft
Microsoft has agreed to purchase electricity from Helion’s first fusion power plant.
Proposed bill would shorten California workweek to 32 hours
Will Californians across the state soon be saying “Thank God it’s Thursday” as they look forward to a mandated three-day weekend all year round? Efforts to reduce work time have regained steam with the California Legislature’s introduction of a bill to reduce the standard workweek to 32 hours – without sacrificing…
Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS
Read Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS on the Polytomic blog.
GTK 3.99
This week, we're releasing GTK 3.99, which can only mean one thing: GTK4 is getting really close! Back in February, when 3.98 was released, we outlined the features that we wanted to land before making a feature-complete 3.99 release. This was the list: Event controllers for keyboard shortcuts Movable popovers…
Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right
This article exposes the unfair reality of spare part prices. To make repair affordable, we need reasonable prices for original parts, clear acceptance for the use of compatible parts (third party, used or 3D-printed) and a solid ban on parts pairing.
A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews
Made by interviewers for candidates – we spent hundreds of hours talking to technical interviewers from FAANG about their processes.
Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings
Spain is forecast to topple Japan from the top spot in the longest life expectancy league table by 2040, while the US continues to slip down the rankings.
Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot
Explore the potential legal challenges GitHub Copilot faces regarding copyright infringement and license compliance of its code suggestions.
Introducing chrome.scripting
The Scripting API is a new Manifest V3 API focused on, well, scripting. Let's dig into the motivations for this change and how it's different.
Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable
Cost, technical performance and environmental impact – these are the three most important aspects for a new type of LED technology to have a broad commercial impact on society. This has been demonstrated by LiU-researchers in a new study.
The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK
The UK’s flagship institute for artificial intelligence, the Alan Turing Institute, has been at best irrelevant to the development of modern AI in the UK.
Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone and edited on Mac
Apple goes behind the scenes of Scary Fast, a special event unveiling the all-new MacBook Pro family and iMac.
Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon
WIRED's Andy Greenberg discusses a revelation that turned his decades-long reporting on its head: Bitcoin became a criminal's worst nightmare.
What to Expect from Marzipan
It’s clear that this year’s WWDC is going to be a doozy. We’ve written here previously with our thoughts about Dark Mode, now it’s time to talk about iOS apps coming to the Mac. Of course I’m talking about Marzipan, a technology Apple introduced with few details during last year’s Keynote. We knew that some […]
New Report Shows Cops Used Ring Cameras to Monitor Black Lives Matter Protests
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has obtained emails that show that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) sent at least one request—and likely many more—for Amazon Ring camera video of last summer’s Black-led protests against police violence. In a report released today,...
Htmx, Rust and Shuttle: A New Rapid Prototyping Stack
This article details how htmx with Rust and Shuttle can speed up your workflow and let you focus on the code with the assistance of Axum and Askama.
.NET 5.0 – New APIs
Get started with the new exciting APIs introduced with .NET 5.0. Understand the intention of engineers that added them.