This month, our mechanic takes us through the basics of an engine…….

theodp writes “In a move straight out of Healthcare.gov’s playbook, teachers won’t get to preview the final lessons they’re being asked to roll out to 10 million U.S. students until a week before the Dec. 9th launch of the Hour of Code nation-wide learn-to-code initiative, according to a video explaining the project, which is backed…

chicksdaddy writes “More than six months after hacked Emergency Alert System (EAS) hardware allowed a phony warning about a zombie uprising to air in several U.S. states, a security consulting company is warning that serious issues persist in software from Monroe Electronics, whose equipment was compromised in the earlier attack. In a blog post, Mike…

In an unconventional talk at Y Combinator’s annual startup school, the Twitter cofounder and Square CEO reads from some of his favorite books and plays some music…….

At the annual Y Combinator startup school event, the Facebook CEO revealed that a comical tradition from the early days of his social network persists to this day, within the bounds of the law…….

benonemusic writes “The commercially available D-Wave computer has demonstrated its ability to perform increasingly complex tasks. But is it a real quantum computer? A new round of research continues the debate over how much its calculations owe to exotic quantum-physics phenomena. ‘One side argues there is too much noise in the D-Wave system, which prevents…