Rumors have recently surfaced that Apple is working on a vehicle. The supposed Apple Car isn’t all too far fetched speaking that Doug Field and Steve MacManus had been brought onto the Apple team in late 2019. It has been open that Apple has been working on car-related technology to…

Remove the Pesky Word You Accidentally Added — Note this only works on Chromium-based browsers (Google Chrome, Edge, Opera, e.t.c) Chromium has a powerful spellcheck feature built into it. It saves time by allowing you to focus on the document that you’re writing, and not worrying about perfecting your spelling. Chromium even gives the option to add custom words to the internal dictionary, but what are your options if you add a word you didn’t mean to?

Long Live Proof of Useful Work — Proof-of-Work security of Blockchain technology has been the face of extensive scrutiny the past month, with several people criticizing the amount of electricity consumed by mining. Just Bitcoin uses more electricity than entire countries. Notably, fractions of this come from clean energy but it’s no brainer that it’s contributing to…

Why do people try to back port newer concepts into older projects. Linux has its faults, so does Windows and MacOS. Time for a new operating system imo.

Yesterday someone approached me who I wouldn’t have thought would’ve. She came to me crying, looking deeply in my eyes in the hope of finding any sense of humanity, any help in reaching relief in a time with such little. “My grandma is close to expiration. She has days, not…

Welcome to today’s roundup of the most interesting and practical data shared on /r/dataisbeautiful. Here we will talk about the topics lying behind that data, and critique the format of the data. We post daily and have a weekly round-up of the best charts from each week. Anyhow, let’s get…

Lockheed Martin’s race to harness the power of lasers just paid off. American aerospace, advanced technology, and arms dealer Lockheed Martin announced the newest addition to its arsenal — but this time, it was something a little more different than a traditional missile, instead it was the speed-of-light protection of…

Often while web-scraping you will come across HTML values in the text that needs to be recoded into their character forms. While jQuery and various other languages have implementations for decoding these values, native JavaScript does not. To solve this I started by parsing out the HTML codes using a…

Rumors that the Trump administration would announce a ban on the popular social media platform TikTok surfaced over the weekend. Around the same time, software giant Microsoft announced they were in talks to acquire the United States rights to the application from parent company ByteDance. Possible reasonings behind the ban…