Some politicians, athletes, and celebrities have announced that they’ll start to take their salaries in cryptocurrencies. | Stacy Revere/Getty Images You can now get paid in bitcoin. That doesn’t mean you should. Bitcoin prices slipped...
Blowing soap bubbles never fails to delight one's inner child, perhaps because bubbles are intrinsically ephemeral, bursting after just a few minutes. Now, French physicists have succeeded in creating "everlasting bubbles" out of plastic particles, glycerol, and water, according...
It’s risky business but more people are starting their own businesses than ever recorded. | Getty Images/iStockphoto Workers are quitting their jobs to become their own bosses.
While millions of Americans are quitting their jobs...
Looking to bolster the appeal of Visual Studio Code to Java developers, Microsoft has published a roadmap for bringing new Java-related capabilities to the code editor. Among the goals is making it easier to migrate to VS Code from...
Intense social pressure to cease solar geoengineering research won’t mean that all such research will end—it means that researchers who care about openness and transparency might stop their activities, and the ones who continue might be less responsive to...
Jetti Resources has announced that Jetti and Teck Resources Ltd have signed an agreement for the evaluation of Jetti’s technology at Teck’s copper assets.
Jetti’s technology could be well suited for application at a number of Teck’s assets with potential copper resources...
For years, idealistic hacktivists have disrupted corporate and government IT systems in acts of protest. Cybercriminal gangs, meanwhile, have increasingly held hostage the same sort of enterprise networks with ransomware, encrypting their data and extorting them for profit. Now,...
The Ruby community has released Ruby 3.1, an upgrade to the open source dynamic programming language that introduces a new in-process JIT (just-in-time) compiler to improve the performance of Ruby applications.Introduced on Christmas Day, Ruby 3.1, or Ruby 3.1.0,...
Moving to the cloud is all the rage. According to an IDC Survey Spotlight, Experience in Migrating Databases to the Cloud, 63% of enterprises are actively migrating their databases to the cloud, and another 29% are considering doing so...
Even if the teaching of art and literature had completely collapsed, academics would continue to write bloodless articles in “defence of the humanities”. They would drag out all the shop-worn phrases about how “enriching” books are, how they are...
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