superfan has recreated Frodo’s exact journey from Bag End to Mount Doom in a 10-hour virtual trek through Lord of the Rings Online, an 18-year-old MMO.
Despite Boromir’s iconic warning, it turns out you can, in fact, simply walk into Mordor
study from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna finds that as people's close social circles expanded from two to five friends around the rise of social media (2008-2010), polarization in society spiked
In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.
This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether.
A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees
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Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours
study reveals that foreign suspects are mentioned three times more in German media than their actual share in police statistics, influencing public perception of crime and migration
"In Kolumbien gibt es das Recht auf Habeas Data. Sie sind Eigentümer Ihrer Daten. Sensible Daten wie die Iris Ihrer Augen dürfen nicht einfach gegen Geld weitergegeben werden, ohne dass Sie wissen, wie sie verwendet werden"
Die durchschnittliche Zeit pro täglich aktivem Nutzer in den Vereinigten Staaten ist seit Juli um 22,5% eingebrochen, während die durchschnittlichen Sitzungen pro Nutzer um 20,7% gesunken sind
This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of the final edition (bottom right)
If we could remove the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit, there'd be a 50% reduction in the overall debris-generating potential, reports Ars Technica
Tim Berners-Lee writes in a new article in the Guardian that "Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0, we took the wrong path