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Just playing in front of a few fans The Kansas City Royals today announced that for the first time in 18 months fans will once again be welcomed back into…

Most of us believe that the harder we work the more we receive. What do we receive? More money, security, social status. What about happiness? In my life, I spent…

Serverless Is Amazing, but Here’s the Big Problem First, it was Docker. Then microservices. Then Kubernetes. And now, serverless. Servers are a pain in the neck, right? What web developer…

Introduction Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. Its sweet spot is applications that involve resource-intensive algorithms coordinated via…

A few years ago, one of my children became obsessed with roller coasters. He watched video after video to study them from afar. He designed his own in computer games….

I should have been shocked by the Governor’s crude comment, but I wasn’t. We were flying home from an October 2017 event in Western New York on his taxpayer-funded jet….

When she got home, there was no internet. Her ex-husband had canceled it while she was at work, but didn’t bother to tell her. Now her kids can’t attend school,…

Myson, completely at wits’ end with Zoom education, left for boarding school last month, so my husband and I became, a few years ahead of schedule, empty-nesters. I had not…

Time after time, over history, speculative manias seemingly emerge out of nowhere, fueling extraordinary booms that prelude devastating busts. After a while, you’d think we would have recognized how to…

When it comes to visualizing data, most people have a straightforward idea about what to do. They use scatterplots to display the relationships between two variables. Boxplots are used to…

Email is everywhere. Virtually every website, store, and newspaper demands you fork it over. It’s on your laptop, your phone, and constantly on your mind. Your workplace, school, book club,…

I am haunted by a story. It’s a story only a handful of paragraphs long, written by a man in the 50’s regarding a superintelligent cybernetics machine. In its sparse…

For the first time in a long time, I’m happy with my current job. I have support from my higher-ups, a good deal of responsibility, and room for improvement, word…

Discussion app Clubhouse appears to have been knocked offline in China, prompting fears it has been blocked by the state’s so-called “Great Firewall”. The invite-only app uses audio rather than…