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Have we reached peak humanity? Johan Norberg’s history of civilisation is an impressive conceptual achievement – but it has little to say about our own age of digital overload. By Ed Smith The spectre ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Writing reliable concurrent software is a subtle and often unforgiving craft. At first glance, the promise of ...

oneTBB is a flexible C++ library that simplifies the work of adding parallelism to complex applications, even if you are not a threading expert. The library lets you easily write parallel programs ...

In contrast, interactive and personalized documents have seen significant adoption in domains outside of academic research. For example, news websites such as the The New York Times often present ...

Mr. Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University and the author of “Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout,” from which this essay is ...

Loom is a newer project in the Java and JVM ecosystem. Hosted by OpenJDK, the Loom project addresses limitations in the traditional Java concurrency model. In particular, it offers a lighter ...

Learn how to use Python’s async functions, threads, and multiprocessing capabilities to juggle tasks and improve the responsiveness of your applications. If you program in Python, you have most likely ...

Namazu (formerly named Earthquake) is a programmable fuzzy scheduler for testing real implementations of distributed system such as ZooKeeper. Namazu permutes Java function calls, Ethernet packets, ...