Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas cause major outages; and abstractions ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to come up with a name for a place that is invulnerable to natural disasters of ...

Ask someone where outer space is, and they’ll probably point at the sky. It’s up, right? Simple. Except, no one really knows where “air space” ends and “outer space” begins. That might sound trivial, ...

An idea discarded more than a century ago, conceived by Lord Kelvin when he imagined atoms as knots in the ether, has resurfaced at the heart of a new theory that seeks to explain why the universe is ...

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Good news everyone! Or should that be good newsletter, everyone, because Space.com is kicking off a virtual book club of sorts with its new newsletter: "Strange New Words." If you love science fiction ...

Despite years of experimenting with different filmmaking techniques, Steven Soderbergh doesn’t believe virtual reality (VR) is suitable for long-form narrative. This probably means Logan Lucky 2 won’t ...

A glamorous society maven who runs New Yorks Central Park has kicked off a quarrel with a millionaire CEO over the future ownership of the iconic site's ice rink. Elizabeth 'Betsy' Smith, 73, CEO of ...