This tool was coded with iPods and Rockbox in mind, but was made as simple as possible to serve a single purpose : look for all music files in a specific folder (and all sub-folders), then create and ...

Immigration has been the signature issue of the Trump era of American politics. His initial ascendancy to the presidency inspired heated debate about his border wall proposal, and his second ...

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“Should I fight or should I film?” No, that’s not a Clash outtake. It’s what Artem Ryzhykov asked himself as he observed the Maidan Revolution in Kyiv in 2014 — a protest that sprawled over several ...

In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research laid the foundation for modern knot theory, was trying to find a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Building a computer on a breadboard is a seminal project for many builders, but it can become complicated quite quickly, not to mention that all the parts needed for a computer are being placed on a ...

Where are Silksong Simple Keys? If you've been poking around in Pharloom's nooks and crannies, odds are you've encountered mysterious locked doors chained with a simple padlock. It stands to reason ...