NASA has a bunch of awesome APIs which give you programmatic access to the wonders of space. I think the Mars Rover Photos API in particular is really amazing as you can use it to see what kind of pictures the Mars Curiosity rover has been taking. (more…)

When I first saw this question on Quora, there were already 47 answers, pretty much all of them wrong. But the number of different answers ... (more…)

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In my attempts to white knuckle through the political root canal that was the American presidential election, I always went to as many different news sites as I could. If a story broke, I’d got to Fox news, CBS, Aljazeera, Politico– even fake news sit...

This post is a deep-dive into a game-theoretic security flaw in Bancor, a high-profile smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain. The full… (more…)