Google shatters SHA-1, but don’t worry the Internet is still working
Whole areas of modern computing rely on the concept of certain things being “computationally infeasible” including encryption. “Computationally infeasible” means mean that…
Trump expected to cut federal IT spending
President Donald Trump said this week that the federal budget is a “mess” and is promising to make it leaner.…
The Math Behind Trump’s Deportation Plan Makes No Sense
As police are embracing data-driven, targeted enforcement, the Trump administration is turning to old-timey dragnets that won’t make anyone safer.…
Hypnotic Animations Show Why Trees Depend on Forest Fires
Fire ecology is a big topic. Eleanor Lutz, the infographic-maker of the <em>Tabletop Whale</em> blog, breaks it down. The post…
Inside the Extreme Machine That Mimics Bombs and Black Holes
Machines like Z are the only way—short of exploding a weapon or sojourning inside the sun—to measure how matter behaves…
Samsung Chromebook Plus now available on Google Store for $449
The Samsung Chromebook Plus was officially announced at CES in Las Vegas at the beginning of the year and went…
U.S. probe of drone collisions with aircraft points to birds
Investigations into reported collisions by drones with civil aircraft found that they were caused instead by birds, wires and posts,…
Create your own Slack bots — and web APIs — in R
One of Slack‘s greatest appeals is that it’s so extensible. While its main purpose is group collaboration, add-on apps can…
Thanks for driving me nuts!
When this application programmer pilot fish takes a job in a factory environment, his co-workers warn him to watch out…
You’ll soon be able to use Google Allo on desktop
Last year, Google announced the Allo chat app that looked quite promising at first. However, the app hasn’t turned out…