I recently stumbled across a file format known as Intel HEX. As far as I can gather, Intel HEX files (which use the .hex extension) are meant to make binary images less opaque by encoding them as lines of hexadecimal digits. Apparently they are used by people who program microcontrollers or need to…

Stepping onto an escalator is an act of faith. From time to time you see people poised at the top, advised by instinct not to launch themselves onto the river of treads. Riding the moving stairs is an adventure for the toddling young and a challenge to the tottering old. Natural hesitancy puts a…

On a cool night late in the summer of 1976, David Godlis stood on the Bowery: a desolate NYC strip synonymous with flophouses and winos who’d lived under the shadow of the Third Avenue El train for more than a century. Although the train had been dismantled, that thoroughfare remained barren and…

The human eye can distinguish millions of shades of color, subtly discriminating small differences of energy along the visual spectrum. Remove Ads No language, however, has words for more than about 1,000 of these, even with compounds and metaphors (for example, a color term like “watermelon red” or…

Beyond the age of 5, very few people would profess to have a favourite letter. But if you have ever been to a statistics or data science conference, you may have seen more than a few grown adults wearing badges or stickers with the phrase “I love R!”. To these proud badge-wearers, R is much more…

Gwyneth Paltrow.Credit...Amanda Demme for The New York Times Feature Inside the growth of the most controversial brand in the wellness industry. Gwyneth Paltrow.Credit...Amanda Demme for The New York Times By July 25, 2018 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 On a Monday morning in November, students at Harvard Business…

Auf seinem Rücken trägt er einen prallen, vollgepackten Rucksack. Darin ist alles, was er vermutlich brauchen wird, jetzt, da er nicht mehr zu Hause leben darf. Zahnbürste, Unterhosen, Hemden, ein Parfüm: Route 66. Die Flasche hatte ihm seine Mutter gebracht. Wann er wieder zu ihr zurückkann?…

The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity. Whereas much of the contemporary world sees technological progress as inevitable, even a moral imperative, the Amish ideal lives in the past, circa 1850. It’s not that the Amish view technology as inherently evil. No rules prohibit them from using new…

Shuichi was 30 years old and working as a systems engineer at a tech company in Tokyo when he was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease that triggers growths in the body’s major organs.

FUTURE HUMAN The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind Published inOneZero · 9 min read· Jul 5, 2018 -- (This piece is now the basis of a new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.) Illustrations: Matt Huynh Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private…

Randi strolls around the dining hall on the first day of camp wearing a worn leather holster on his belt, but no gun. Instead, he’s packing an STP (“stand to pee”) device that, in case it isn’t obvious, helps men without penises urinate while standing up. It’s made of deep-blue plastic, and its butt…

A woman gets on a plane. She’s flying from New York to Dallas, where she lives and works as a personal trainer. A couple asks her if she’ll switch seats with one of them so that they can sit together, and she agrees, thinking it’s her good deed for the day. She chats with her new seatmate and they…

In den USA macht die Strenge des Gesetzes nicht halt vor den Jüngsten und Vinny musste mit 13 in den Knast. Sein Schicksal und das seiner Familie zeichnet ein intimes Porträt von Menschen am Rande der Gesellschaft. Benommen stolpert er aus der Tür, hört irgendwen brüllen: Police Department!, lässt…

Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for audio stories and much more. Already a subscriber? . It was a Sunday afternoon, August 7, 2016, the temperature a pleasant 78 degrees, as ten-year-old Caleb Schwab began the 264-step climb to the top of Verrückt, the world’s tallest…

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Over 1 million Webmentions will have been sent across the internet since the specification was made a full Recommendation by the W3C—the standards body that guides the direction of the web—in early January 2017. That number is rising rapidly, and in the last few weeks I’ve seen a growing volume of…

I took a tip from Dexter from the City of Detroit Office of Innovation, and started on the Detroit Mapping Challenge by browsing City of Detroit Open Data. What open data could help make OpenStreetMap Detroit the best map in the world? BikeShare locations looked like a useful and straightforward…

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Since its founding in 2002, LinkedIn has quickly become one of the most popular video games of all time. It currently has roughly 530 million users, and was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.2 billion, the same company that also purchased two other trendy games, Minecraft (2014) and GitHub…

With Gmail’s new design rolled out to more and more users, many have had a chance to try out its new “Confidential Mode.” While many of its features sound promising, what “Confidential Mode” provides isn’t confidentiality. At best, the new mode might create expectations that it fails to meet around…

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Die Sehnsucht nach dem Wallis treibt manch seltsame Blüte. Woran das liegt, braucht man nur jenen zu erzählen, die noch nie da waren: Es ist die Sonne, die nirgends in der Schweiz länger scheint und die berühmten Aprikosen süss, den Wein herrlich vollmundig und die Menschen glücklich macht. Es sind…

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Man muss mit ihnen hoffen und bangen, den Jungs in der Höhle in Thailand, darf alle irdischen und überirdischen Kräfte um Beistand für die Taucher bitten, soll sich freuen über jeden Geretteten. Dass so viele Menschen das tun, ist ein wunderbares Zeichen. Wie immer die Rettung ausgehen mag: Sie ist,…

Gelmy Tun Borgos helps in the kitchen making tortillas with her mother in their home in a small village in the Yucatan. Adriana Zehbrauskas for NPR Fifteen years ago, psychologists Barbara Rogoff and Maricela Correa-Chavez ran a simple experiment. They wanted to see how well kids pay attention —…

Bill Gates introduces the Indigo, the remarkable invention that uses no electricity, no ice, and no batteries to store vaccines at the precise temperature required to remain effective. Learn more at https://b-gat.es/2sDyOMv

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Watch the story here on ESPN+. The last time Lorna Onizuka spoke to her husband, she mentioned milk. She and their two daughters, Janelle and Darien, wouldn't be able to have cereal the next morning because she'd left the milk on the porch and it was frozen solid. The temperature that night in Cape…

We’re standing on the edge of a cliff on a remote Texas ranch, a long patch of rocky desert stretching out below to the verdant banks of the Rio Grande, a silver ribbon 2 miles distant. On the horizon, a light haze shrouds the mountains of northern Mexico. The whistle of a stiff and constant wind…

This post has been updated. Paul Simon never wrote a song about Kodak Ektachrome, so you’ve probably never heard of it. But you have seen pictures shot on the film: The astronauts brought it to the moon in 1969, and National Geographic photographers have carried it around the globe.Launched in 1946,…

Johnny Depp isn’t here yet. Still, his presence is all around the 10,500-square-foot rented mansion at 16 Bishopswood Road in London’s Highgate neighborhood. He is here in the busy hands of Russell, his personal chef working up the Peking duck. He is here in the stogie-size joint left by the sink in…

In 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 captured what has become one of the most iconic images of the Earth: the Blue Marble. Biochemist Gregory Petsko described the image as “perfectly representing the human condition of living on an island in the universe.” Many researchers now credit the image as marking…

15 min read· Jun 7, 2018 -- Databases? Not very interesting. So might an average person working with GIS or data visualizations think. I must admit that databases aren’t the sexiest thing in the world (sorry DBA’s), but if you are claiming (or aiming) to do analytics or visualization with (spatial)…

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In November of last year, I read an article in the New York Times about disturbing videos targeted at children that were being distributed via YouTube. Parents reported that their children were encountering knock-off editions of their favourite cartoon characters in situations of violence and death:…

It was 7am when my phone rang. Instead of an alarm, it was my recruiter disturbing me from a pleasant dream. It was too early for a phone call or to be caught off guard, so I did not answer. I went to take a shower and get ready for the day. On my way to work, I listened to the voice mail she had…