When the dark sci-fi TV show Black Mirror premiered in the UK in 2011, the series seemed to offer a cautionary tale of how, if we’re not careful, our relationship to technology could go terribly wrong. Since then, the show has become a yardstick to measure how close we are to a harrowing future; in…

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Every week I analyze a handful of websites for rendering performance. The main culprit blocking rendering is JavaScript execution. Frequently, I notice this blocking JavaScript is loaded with the ASYNC tag. Wha?! Shouldn’t ASYNC not block rendering? Sadly, no. Not only can ASYNC scripts block…

Jörgen Hildebrandt Hans Rosling doesn’t consider himself an optimist or a pessimist but rather a ‘possibilist’. Hans Rosling knew never to flee from men wielding machetes. “The risk is higher if you run than if you face them,” he says. So, in 1989, when an angry mob confronted him at the field…

Editor's Note: I originally wrote this for Fuel Your Coding back in May of 2010. Unfortunately, that site is now defunct, so I'm republishing the article here for posterity's sake. I considered updating it for modern times, but I think it holds up well enough as is. The parts that don't hold up are…

TL; DR: Celebrating 25 years of productivity and billions of lines of code written, Vim is an open-source text editor loved by millions of programmers around the world. Perhaps not for the faint-of-heart beginner, Vim has a steep learning curve. Once you master it, however, you’ll have the power of…

Peter Thiel has had a very good year. He vanquished Gawker, rode out Trumpism to its triumphant conclusion, and is now poised to influence the incoming administration to his advantage. The president-elect, Thiel said in October , “gets the big things right.” It’s still not clear what exactly those…

Mark Boyle: ‘Technology separates us from nature, while simultaneously converting life into the cash that oils consumerist society.’Photograph: Sam Frost I ’ll never know how many people liked this article, shared it or found it irrelevant, anti-progressive or ironic. Nor will I get to read comments…

The fog of war envelops every battlefield. When the plan breaks down amid the chaos and ambiguity, how do young marines know what to do next? How can they take relevant action in the present when their carefully detailed plan has been rendered useless? Every leader communicates something called…

twelveofour Streaming music and movies over the internet may seem more eco-friendly than stocking up on CDs and DVDs. After all, you’re saving the plastic needed to make the physical media, the trees needed to print the liner notes, and the gasoline needed to ship all those discs across the country.…

Illustration by Jasper Rietman A baby ibex on a precipitous cliff edge. The hyenas of Harar eating from a human hand. Leopards in Mumbai, whales breaching and baby turtles heading blindly away from the sea. We are amazed by images of wildlife seen in ever more beautifully filmed natural history…

I recently came across a tweet statingthat there were no people who “defend OO vs. FP” that actually used FP in real projects. This is not the firsttime I came across statements like this (like in a blog posts portraying functional programmers asbeing higher on the “evolutionary ladder” than…

I’ve often said that if my father had just been a kung fu action film star who made four and a half kickass films in the ’70s, I would consider it a personal fun fact and move on with my life. But Bruce Lee was so much more than that. My father was a teacher, family man, martial artist, philosopher,…

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Beautiful Footage: Hiking to Machu Picchu PUBLISHED April 19, 2017

The Man Who Loved Physics By Alan Lightman S everal years ago, I attended a Buddhist retreat in which I was introduced to the idea of the “retinue,” a constellation of influential and supportive people whom one imagines in an enveloping cloud as one meditates. Mentors. I took the concept one step…

MakerBot made a bold bet that 3D printers would become as common as microwaves. Just one problem: no one else shared that dream. It was October 2009 when Bre Pettis — his unmistakable sideburns and dark-rimmed rectangular glasses framing his face — took the stage at Ignite NYC , threw his hand in…

The global design and strategy firm Frog asked experts from its offices around the world to identify key technology trends that'll shape how we live, work, and play in 2017. Below, we've selected 12 that are most relevant to the design community.—Eds. Not only will smart cities leverage sensors to…

I don’t mean robots in the futuristic sense, like you might find in Westworld or 2001 , but rather robots that we’re increasingly dealing with everyday. I mean the robots that live in Google Allo , Facebook Messenger , and a host of other new services that use chat-based assistants to serve up…

Adele Peters 12.06.16 3:45 PM When Daniel Lubetzky's father was in a concentration camp as a child during the Holocaust, a series of small acts—such as a guard secretly throwing him a potato—saved his life. The stories he heard of that experience as he was growing up inspired Lubetzky when he…

In 2010, Ian Rosenberger traveled to Haiti looking to help people after the earthquake. And help he did. He met a young man called Tassy Filsaime who had a cancerous jaw. He brought him back to Pittsburgh and raised $50,000 for a life-saving operation. Then, he hit on a way to support the locals…

TMN Ein bisschen dünner darf die Luft schon sein: Wer gerne wandert, aber neue Herausforderungen sucht, kann sich an seine ersten Drei- oder Viertausender wagen. Wir stellen sieben Touren vor, die sich für Einsteiger lohnen. Jede Hochtour ist ein besonderes Erlebnis: Man betritt die Welt des ewigen…

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Be careful what you search for... Google’s predictive questions can lead you down some dark roads.Photograph: Michael Gottschalk/Photothek via Getty Images H ere’s what you don’t want to do late on a Sunday night. You do not want to type seven letters into Google. That’s all I did. I typed: “a-r-e”.…

Photo Gallery World's Best Hikes: New Trails for a New Year Ready for a real New Year’s resolution? Why not commit to setting your feet on a brand-new long-distance hiking trail? Trail advocacy groups and volunteers across the globe have been busy over the past few years conceiving of and building…

Silicon Valley’s biggest failing is not poor marketing of its products, or follow-through on promises, but, rather, the distinct lack of empathy for those whose lives are disturbed by its technological wizardry. Photograph by Scott Eells / Bloomberg / Getty Silicon Valley seems to have lost a bit of…

Inhalt 01 Was tun? Was tun! 02 Bringt Demonstrieren was? Auf einer Seite lesen Der Hass wird größer, Rechtspopulisten werden lauter. Ich will was tun – aber bringt demonstrieren was? Oder in die Politik gehen? Ein Sieben-Punkte-Plan für Demokraten Ja, die Zeiten waren mal geiler. Donald Trump wird…

Hi there! Who are you, and what are you working on? My name is Dawson Whitfield. I recently launched Logojoy — an online logo maker that uses machine learning to make it feel like you're working with a real designer. Logojoy is for anyone trying to start a business, blog, non-profit, club, or…

The UK is about to become one of the world’s foremost surveillance states, allowing its police and intelligence agencies to spy on its own people to a degree that is unprecedented for a democracy. The UN’s privacy chief has called the situation "worse than scary." Edward Snowden says it’s simply…

India has launched the world’s largest solar power plant following the completion of its new facility in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu. The 2,500-acre facility was built in just eight months in spite of unfavourable weather conditions and has a capacity of 648 megawatts. India’s Kamuthi…

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Learn the state of the art in debugging using Chrome dev tools with Paul Irish - all you need to know to expand your toolbox. Lighthouse Github: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/light... Chrome Dev Tools: https://developers.google.com/web/too... Chrome Dev Tools Twitter:…

Vom Model zur Fair Fashion Queen Marie Nasemann ist Model, Schauspielerin, steht viel in der Öffentlichkeit und setzt sich leidenschaftlich für faire Mode ein. Halt, was? Ja, richtig gehört: als eine der wenigen deutschen Prominenten macht Marie sich für faire Arbeitsbedingungen in der…

Unbroken Grounds explains the critical role food will play in the next frontier of our efforts to solve the environmental crisis. It explores four areas of agriculture that aim to change our relationship to the land and oceans. Most of our food is produced using methods that reduce biodiversity,…