The fashion world stands at a loss with the passing away of the pioneering British stylist and visual architect Melanie Ward, who died after her long standing battle with cancer. While her name might ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

You don’t need expensive props to perform incredible magic. With just coins, pens, rings, and cards, these 8 visual tricks create jaw-dropping effects that amaze any audience. Pinoys make memes out of ...

Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs. The ball and the water behave very differently, and it turns out that your brain has ...

Computer vision competitions are currently an important event for teams working in this area. They provide an opportunity to try new solutions, practice, and simply enjoy solving interesting problems.

Summary: A new study has uncovered how the brain efficiently encodes and recalls visual memories—by organizing them into categories and using the precise timing of neuronal activity. Researchers ...

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...

Hearing spoken words can enhance the recognition of visual object categories. Yet, the mechanisms that underpin this facilitation are incompletely understood. Recent proposals suggest that words can ...

Powerful open-source software, such as Python, R, and the commercial software MATLAB, demands good coding skills. Writing original code could be challenging for students with no prior programming ...