Stories by ColinWright

How bad would it be if we accidentally made a black hole?

A company called SkyTran is making maglev passenger “cars”

Swatting Could Soon Be Illegal

MegaProcessor: a CPU (and more) built from discrete transistors (and more)

The most important person in my gang will be a systems programmer [pdf]

How does a relational database work

Superfish 2.0: Dell ships laptops, PCs with huge internet security hole

Death by spam: lazy email marketing is killing our inboxes

Google DeepMind Founder Says AI Machines Have Beat Board Game Go

A New, Gorgeous Look at the 10,000 Year Clock with 'The Clock of the Long Now'

Antibiotic resistance: a clear and present danger

Texas Rejects Letting Academics Vet Public School Textbooks

Topology looks for the patterns inside big data

The Gall--Peters Projection, Explanation Curtesy of the West Wing

Python 3 makes it easier to develop high-quality software

Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician, to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

Meet the People Living with a Deadly 200-Year-Old Curse

The Riemann Hypothesis

Agile versus Lean (2008)

HTTPS Is Not Just TLS