Lingua Franca

You surely heard that old story, where one fish asks another "how is the water today?" and the second replies, "what the hell is water?" Similarly, few of us seem to think a…

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From Burger King and Toyota to Intel and Warner Brothers, major brands are discarding detail and depth. Why now, and what's the rush?

Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children's private schools, organize in secret.

A little over half a decade ago, I came across a wonderful project: a programming language called Julia that was going to revolutionise data science and technical computing. So what happened?

ARRAY is about to have its 10th birthday and will celebrate by releasing two of Ava DuVernay's earliest films on Netflix. A press release has announced that ARRAY's distribution branch, ARRAY Releasing, will launch the Sundance award-winning "Middle of Nowhere" and DuVernay's first doc "This Is the Life" on Netflix tomorrow, February 11. In 2012,...

This paper explores the consequences that language change might trigger in the languages of crew members during a long journey in space or interplanetary settlement. Languages drift apart as communities grow more isolated from each other, so the long isolation of a traveling community may lead to enough difference to render its language unintelligible to the original community it left. This problem may compound as…

It was a bit of a wait, thanks to the pandemic, but the Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations for the 2020-21 season finally were announced today, with A24's First Cow, Netflix's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, A24's Minari, Focus Features' Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Searchlight's Nomadland taking the five slots in the Best Feature category. Among movies, Never Rarely Sometimes Always led […]

The demand for data engineers is growing rapidly. According to hired.com the demand has increased by 45% in 2019. The median salary for Data Engineers in SF Bay Area is around $160k. So the question …

Carrie Battan writes about the HGTV series "My Big Italian Adventure," about the actress Lorraine Bracco's journey restoring a home in a small Sicilian town.

Kate Bolduan wore a custom sweater from Lingua Franca with the network's tagline emblazoned across the chest.

Venture Smith's slave narrative has been translated into Fante, inviting further reckoning about Ghana's role in the transatlantic slave trade.

RISC-V, the open standard for chip instructions, is leading to some impressive technical innovation, one of its creators says.

I'll let you in on a little secret. Unix "command line wizards" are just...

Almost 500 extremist channels on Telegram, VKontakte, and other networks spread propaganda and vie for recruits. Most of them have ties to the Islamic State.

TL;DR We just open sourced Klio — our framework for building smarter data pipelines for audio and other media processing. Based on Python and Apache Beam, Klio helps our teams process Spotify's massive catalog of music and podcasts, faster and more efficiently. We think Klio's ease of use — and its

Apple included the Translate app in iOS 14, which aims to make it easy to communicate with others in a foreign language. Here's how to get up and running with the new app.

Conspiracies like Pizzagate are all over the social media platform. Here's why they've found an audience there.

To offer a seamless developer experience, we wanted to create a specialized programming language, called Motoko, that is designed to directly support the programming model of the Internet Computer, making it easier to efficiently build applications and take advantage of some of the more unusual features of this platform.

The language of the internet has shifted from predominantly English to multilingual. But the internet seemingly reinforces a few main languages, putting the majority of others at risk of exclusion…