A recent report from HackerEarth found that 80% of Fortune 100 companies host a hackathon. Why do they do this? To drive innovation and generate fresh ideas. In the US alone, 350 hackathons are conducted every year. Conducting such a...

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In software development, every coder has unique quirks and preferences that make their coding style distinct. But these differing approaches to naming conventions, indentation and spacing, error handling, and more, can make team collaboration challenging. That’s before you even consider...

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In a future where humanity has been driven underground by an apocalyptic event, a prisoner is haunted by the childhood memory of seeing a man gunned down at an airport. A group of scientists make him their time-traveling guinea pig, hoping that he’ll be able to find a way to restore the society they once knew. […]

Many of us in these past few generations first heard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while reading E. L. Konigsburg’s novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. More than a few of us also fantasized about running away to live in that vast cultural institution like the book’s young protagonists Claudia and […]

The term gaslight has gained so much traction in popular discourse so recently that you’d swear it was coined around 2010. In fact, that particular usage goes at least as far back as 1938, when British novelist and playwright Patrick Hamilton wrote a stage thriller about a husband who surreptitiously rearranges things in the house so […]

For many a classic action-movie enthusiast, no car chase will ever top the one in Bullitt. The narrator of the Insider video above describes it as “the scene that set the standard for all modern car chases,” one made “iconic partly because of the characters, but also because of their cars.” The pursuer drives a Dodge […]

Just by chance, could you use a song about perseverance and overcoming adversity? Something to give you a little encouragement and reassurance? Then we submit to you “Don’t Give Up,” featuring the isolated vocals of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. When he released the song on his 1986 album So, Gabriel told NME: “The catalyst […]

For 142 years now, Sagrada Família has been growing toward the sky. Or at least that’s what it seems to be doing, as its ongoing construction realizes ever more fully a host of forms that look and feel not quite of this earth. It makes a kind of sense to learn that, in designing the […]

Germany gives reassurances: The transition to green energy is achievable albeit expensive and demanding.

Ships unwittingly convey invasive species around the world, and a pioneering French company uses ultraviolet rays to wipe out the unwanted passengers

The obvious good weather and extreme temperatures are accompanied by a boom in travelers, but climate change, if nothing remedies it, signals a bleak future for the tourism industry

In Bihar’s hinterland, Husk Power Systems generates electricity from biomass

Methods for turning hydrogen into energy have been known for over a century, but they are only now starting to reach the consumer markets. In addition to being environmentally friendly, hydrogen power is better in many ways than the conventional variety. This industry has its Russian "champions" as well. "Kommersant", for instance, has attempted to figure out why anyone would develop this technology in an "energy superpower".

A ‘farming’ kindergarten sprouts among Vietnamese factories

A small company from Saint-Emilion, France, is sending its solar mower robot into the vineyards. Before entrusting it with other tasks.

Once viewed as worthless, the humble croton nut of East Africa has proven to be a valuable source of biofuel, fertilizer and even chicken feed

Soil-Concept is developing a procedure to transform sewage sludge compost into gas

The nuclear power phase-out, the energy transition and the fight against climate change have resulted in the emergence of new business models in Germany. This is the success story of Klaus Meier.

‘Consolidation to be slow despite remedial measures'

Move along keto, Bollywood has found a new way to stay fit.

Akshay Kumar launched the trailer of his new period film Prithviraj with a lot of fanfare.

'If the Holocaust was right, then the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits is also right.'

'I don't jump at everything that comes my way. (But) To say that I have too many offers coming my way is also a lie. I'm not one of those people who turn down scripts every day.'

"Just three months more," says mom-to-be Deepika Padukone in a witty reply when asked if she is still in her character of a pregnant woman from her coming film Kalki 2898 AD.

Recently we upgraded our server infrastructure for Freckle Time Tracking and in the process wanted to improve how we serve SSL. If you don’t know much about this, it’s fine—there’s a few simple steps you can take to make your website more secure and faster loading in the process. _Important: of course, there’s no absolute […]

The Internet is awesome. Information at your fingertips and always-available help from people all over the world is one of humanity’s dreams come true. I’m not sure if the ancient philosophers included copy & pasting of code snippets in this dream, but it’s a fact of daily developer life. It’s awesome, and it’s very convenient. […]

Webfonts are the new hotness, and icon fonts even more so. There’s plenty to choose from, and Google just released an icon font that’s based on the new Android L. Icon nirvana reached? Not really. Icon fonts have a few nasty problems that icon font makers rarely make you aware of. Here’s a few of […]

Do you think you have what it takes to ship great software? I’ll let you in on a secret: it’s not easy and takes a lot of effort—but it’s all skills that you can learn. Here’s my checklist for getting software projects done, in a way that they actually ship and actually work well: Learn […]