When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

Almost a year ago, and after many false starts, Austin voters opted to carve the city – for representative governing purposes – into 10 City Council districts. If you believe in bumper stickers, that ...

Earlier this week, Snapchat introduced Snap Map, an opt-in function that allows you to share your location with your friends on a map. Snapchat’s introduction video to Snap Map, seen above, focuses on ...

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When the Wright brothers launched their historic first flight on December 19, 1903, they had complete freedom to chart their own course through the sky. With the subsequent popularity of aviation as a ...

Now that the commotion of the Cedar Uprising uprising and Syria’s subsequent military withdrawal have settled into the calmer civic ritual of the recent Lebanese elections, the questions remain: Has ...