Here’s how Americans feel about Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. | Maja Hitij / Mike Cohen / Saul Loeb / Aurelien Meunier / Getty Images A new poll from Vox and...
Solid findings: This new study provides yet more promising data on the positive effect vaccines are starting to have on the pandemic. Last month, England’s health authority reported that a single shot of either the Oxford/AstraZeneca or the Pfizer/BioNTech...
C# 9 introduced a number of features that allow us to write more efficient and flexible code. In previous articles we examined record types, static anonymous functions, relational and logical patterns, and top-level programs. In this article we’ll look...
In the modern economy, all companies are software organisations, whether they realise it or not. So too Australia’s federal government. But how the government works, how it accounts for money and allocates funds, have not kept pace with the...
You might be in the habit of replacing your smartphone every couple of years, but most phones can last a lot longer than that. Like your car, they might just need a new part every now and then, and...
Given enough cash and luck, you can manufacture a pop phenomenon like One Direction. But if you want to foster a popular open source project, no amount of cash is going to buy success.Instead, as Artillery.io founder Hassy Veldstra...
Then there are the refrigerators themselves.In 2009, engineers at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle started designing an off-grid refrigerator for use in places with little to no infrastructure for the cold chain. The result was the...
Just as mining operations have evolved over the years, with technological innovations and safety awareness working to tighten regulations and risk management efforts, so we’ve also seen rescue efforts evolve to become a well oiled machine. The latest example,...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos | Alex Wong/Getty Images Snarky tweets targeting Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren came after the CEO told execs they weren’t pushing back hard enough on critics. Amazon has long...
At the start of the pandemic—and I realize I may be alone in this—it did not seem possible that I could run out of new online workouts. Gyms began closing, as did the rest of the world, but that...


















