This is the flask in which Donoghue distills the drama of the 1918 pandemic. It’s a good choice. Adults in the prime of life were particularly vulnerable to that flu, and pregnant women were among the most vulnerable of...
The developers behind Apple’s Swift language have introduced an open source project for the Swift server ecosystem, called Swift Service Lifecycle, to aid server applications with managing startup and shutdown sequences.Accessible from GitHub, Swift Service Lifecycle is a Swift package...
The UAE launched its Emirates Mars Mission on Monday, from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center at 6:58 am local time (Sunday evening US Eastern Time). If the mission successfully reaches Mars, the UAE will join a very small list of...
Micro-X has received regulatory clearance in the United States for its Rover device, designed for deployed military medical facilities. Australian technology company Micro-X (ASX: MX1) has obtained early approval from...
To see how substitution works, consider the formula (∃x)(x = sy). (It reads, “There exists some variable x that is the successor of y,” or, in short, “y has a successor.”) Like all formulas, it has a Gödel number—some...
‘Do More with R’ offers quick video tips on useful things you can do in the R programming language. Now you can search these R tutorial videos by topics, tasks, and packages in the table below. (Click on the...
People who are incarcerated are turning to TikTok to express themselves and show what living conditions are like inside prison. | Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images Cellphone videos filmed inside prisons are giving TikTok users a glimpse...
Emoji are fun, but they’re also valuable snippets of code that advertisers can use to understand how people feel. | Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images These tiny cartoon characters can be powerful tools for advertisers. ...
The concept: When we look at a chair, regardless of its shape and color, we know that we can sit on it. When a fish is in water, regardless of its location, it knows that it can swim. This...
James Bareham for Vox/Recode | Photo of Picturephone 1965: Bettmann/Gettyimages It looks like we’re stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing? It’s well over 100 days into the Covid-19 crisis, and I have to...

















