Coding Relic

The ocean has absorbed approximately a third of the extra carbon released since the industrial age. A previous article focused on counteri...

The ocean has absorbed approximately a third of the extra carbon released since the industrial age. When carbon dioxide is absorbed by seaw...

I have been at Google (now Alphabet) for almost 9 years. All things come to an end, and the end of my time at Google is approaching. I expec...

Pre-industrialization, forests covered approximately 5.9 billion hectares across the planet. Today that figure is 4 billion hectares, and s...

biochar is charcoal made from biomass, from agricultural waste or other plant material. If left to rot or burned, the carbon trapped in this...

Adsorption : the adhesion of atoms, ions or molecules from a gas, liquid or dissolved solid to a surface. This process creates a film of the...

I am very interested in technologies to ameliorate climate change. The looming, self-inflicted potential extinction of the human species see...

Technical Report 69 from the Broadband Forum is a management protocol called the CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP). It was first publishe...

High Output Management by Andy Grove was first published in 1983, making it one of the earliest books about management in the technology ind...

When our children expressed an interest in DNA and genetic engineering, we wanted to encourage their curiosity and interest. We went looking...

I received a blackmail letter in the postal mail yesterday. Yes, really. It begins thusly: Hello Denton, I’m going to cut to the chase. M...

In July 2017 gave a talk at DEFCON 25 describing a technique to identify the type of Wi-Fi client connecting to an Access Point. It can be ...

Behold: the Yakthulhu. It is a tiny Cthulhu made from the hair of shaved yaks. (Really, it is. Yak hair yarn is a thing which one can bu...

Datacenter software is deployed frequently. Push daily! Push hourly! Push on green whenever the tests pass! This works even at extremely lar...

Recently I posted a number of truly terrible physics jokes to Twitter, as one does. For your edification and bemusement, here they are: I...