Fixed-Height Cards: More Fragile Than They Look
Fixed-height cards often feel like a safe choice. A designer hands you a mockup where every card aligns perfectly in a grid. The titles are short,...
Read moreNews
Why Leaded Fuel Is Still A Thing
Leaded fuel is considered one of the greatest environmental failures in modern human history. Adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knock in internal combustion engines, which...
Read moreDARPA chief says agency must harness commercial space boom
Director Stephen Winchell says the agency is eyeing a cislunar navigation challenge and is exploring asteroid resource concepts The post DARPA chief says agency must harness...
Read moreExclusive: Metalenz Has Figured Out a Way to Make Face ID Invisible
Metalenz’s Polar ID face-scanning technology works even when the camera is hidden under the display.
Read moreThe agent code explosion is here. We need to rethink our pipelines, fast.
GitHub recently published an update on availability following a couple of rough incidents in April. The article opened with a sentence that every engineering leader should...
Read more
A New Python Packaging Council and Other News for May 2026
April gave Python developers a new governing body. PEP 772 was accepted on April 16, creating a dedicated Python Packaging Council that will make binding decisions...
Read moreGameStop makes $56 billion offer to acquire eBay
GameStop has made an offer to acquire eBay for $56 billion, which comes as part of GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen’s plan to transform the online marketplace...
Read moreGCC 16 Compiler Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains Over GCC 15
With the GCC 16.1 compiler released last Thursday, I have begun running more compiler benchmarks on this first GCC 16 stable feature release. GCC 16 comes...
Read moreFor NASA’s TESS, Stellar Eclipses Shed Light on Possible New Worlds
4 min read For NASA’s TESS, Stellar Eclipses Shed Light on Possible New Worlds A study of NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) data on stellar...
Read moreMicroprinting Microcap XTPL Reports 2025 Sales Growth Despite Net Loss
The Polish company XTPL is among a category of small startups sitting at the overlap between additive manufacturing (AM) and advanced packaging for the semiconductor industry....
Read moreA Free Open Source Mobile Dev Hackathon Is Coming to the Netherlands on May 16
OpenSource Science B.V., better known as OS-SCi, is a Netherlands-based institution that has a pretty specific focus. To train the next generation of developers exclusively on...
Read moreA Free Open Source Mobile Dev Hackathon Is Coming to the Netherlands on May 16
OpenSource Science B.V., better known as OS-SCi, is a Netherlands-based institution that has a pretty specific focus. To train the next generation of developers exclusively on...
Read more