A free, browser-based simulator of the classic Microsoft Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter. Pick a drive, cue the HDD sounds, and relive the nostalgia of 1998.

Digital devices from a less connected era are getting a second life.

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.

Data, tools and collaborations that empower journalists to better cover their community. A project at Stanford University.

Search California public records about law enforcement violence and misconduct.

School attendance has hit record lows since the pandemic. More than a quarter of kids were chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year.

Countless digital documents hold valuable info, and the AI industry is attempting to set it free.

Here's the handout for a workshop I presented this morning at [NICAR 2025](https://www.ire.org/training/conferences/nicar-2025/) on web scraping, focusing on lesser know tips and tricks that became po...

A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …

"Likes are one of the very few ways audiences send us signals across platforms and I don’t think we can count on those hearts in 2025."

The Delaware state senator’s time in office has been a series of legislative love letters to her late husband. He’s still guiding her historic campaign to become the first out transgender woman in Con...

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(Almost) everything you always wanted to know about working from the command line, but were too afraid to ask.

The U.S. Coast Guard of the Great Lakes said it "ran soft aground" around 8 a.m. Wednesday morning. There were no injuries, pollution, or damage reported.