The Timess investigation included extensive interviews with a former Walmart executive in Mexico, who described how the company delivered envelopes of cash to officials to buy zoning approvals, reductions in environmental fees and the loyalty of neighborhood …
Enlarge/ The complex physics of bubbles and foams have fascinated scientists for centuries. 23 with 17 posters participating Human beings derive intense pleasure from bubbles and all kinds of foamy products, and scientists have long found them equally fasci…
smoltcp is a standalone, event-driven TCP/IP stack that is designed for bare-metal, real-time systems. Its design goals are simplicity and robustness. Its design anti-goals include complicated compile-time computations, such as macro or type tricks, even a…
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Maxine Waters says Facebook has a troubled past A US lawmaker has said Facebook should delay the launch of its Libra crypto-currency – hours after the social network formally announced the project. Libra, set to be…
What happens behind the scenes when we type google.com in a browser? Table of Contents Google’s ‘g’ key is pressed When you just press “g” the browser receives the event and the entire auto-complete machinery kicks into high gear. Depending on your browser…
For years I’ve been taking a pretty standardized approach to designing each new map in Cogmind, and although we have dozens of them now, it’s one of the few topics I’ve never covered on the blog. This is essentially because a serious in-depth look at the enti…
