Scrolling is one of the oldest interactions on the web. Long before we had pull-to-refresh or infinite-loading lists, the humble scrollbar solved the web’s original scaling problem: how can we interact with content that’s stretched beyond the available viewport?

Elon Musk thinks it's almost certain that we are living in a computer simulation. In short, we are characters in an advanced version of The Sims — so advanced that it creates, well, us.

When wireless networking based around the 802.11b standard first hit consumer markets in the late nineties, it looked pretty good on paper. Promising "11 Mbps" compared to original wired Ethernet's 10 Mbps, a reasonable person might have thought 802.

Nearly all enterprises have multiple applications that are the system of record for their key data, and business functions upon which the enterprise is built.

In 1980, scientist and writer Isaac Asimov argued in an essay that “there is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.

Trump and Brexit are responses to a political system that’s imploding. But could a radical redesign wrest it from the liars? Debased and de-based: that’s the condition of our political systems. Corrupted, they no longer fulfil their democratic potential.

Before the company's new Zen offerings, it's fair to say that AMD's last attempt at building a performance desktop processor was not tremendously successful. The Bulldozer core released in 2011 had a design that can, at best, be described as idiosyncratic.

I recently found myself facing a vending machine in a quiet corridor at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. I was due to speak at a conference called ‘Reinvent Money’ but, suffering from jetlag and exhaustion, I was on a search for Coca-Cola.

Seconda puntata di un’inchiesta in tre parti sulla grande distribuzione organizzata. Prima puntata. “Sei un pragmatico o un cacciatore?”. La domanda riecheggia per la sala conferenze. La grande stanza immersa nella luce artificiale del neon è affollata, quasi tutti uomini, età media sui 40.

Come funzionano i diritti dei film in Italia? Perché i film su iTunes appaiono, scompaiono e poi riappaiono? Vi raccontiamo la storia di un film in Italia, dalla sua uscita cinematografica.

If you've ever used an arithmetic mean, a Pearson correlation or a standard deviation to describe a dataset, I'm writing this for you. Better numbers exist to summarize location, association and spread: numbers that are easier to interpret and that don't act up with wonky data and outliers.

Come calcolare i valori attesi legati ad una raccolta di figurine