Apr 18
By now, you’ve read all about Heartbleed nerdy brave computer scientists have run it, so you don’t have to.
Apr 04
A new form of encryption promising to be "highly resistant to conventional methods of attack" could make our digital lives more secure—and it’s all inspired by the way our heart and lungs coordinate their rhythms by passing information between each other.
     |
Apr 02
Everyone loves animated GIFs, but you might not realize that their grainy, jerky video can teach us a lot about the compromises that computer scientists everywhere have to make.
| |
Mar 31
Should Everyone Be Able to Code?
Posted in: Today's Chili The U.S. government wants everyone to be able to code
| |
Mar 18
Facebook has been working on facial recognition for years to auto-tag photographs, but has now reached a point where its technology is ‘closely approaching human-level performance.’ In fact, in some ways it might even be better.
| |
Feb 06
Every time you install a new app on your phone, you have to agree to some terms and conditions—which you do, blindly. But should we be taking those long passages of text more seriously?
| |
Jan 16
It’s only a matter of time before things go the way of Skynet, and this new algorithm is a stepping stone along the way: it can learn to identify objects all by itself, with zero human help. Gulp.
| |
Dec 31
There have been no end of time and calendar mess-ups in software over the years, and they still seem to keep happening. So why is it that times and timezones still confuse the hell out of developers?
| |
Dec 23
We’re all outraged by the NSA’s invasions of privacy, sure—but we don’t perhaps understand exactly how it managed it. This video explains the maths behind the agency’s surveillance.
| |
Dec 19
Computers love to think in triangles
| |
Who's in charge here?
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.