Partial differential equations can describe everything from planetary motion to plate tectonics, but they’re notoriously hard to solve.

Northzone, Earlybird and HV Holtzbrinck Ventures are among the most notable backers of Berlin-based non-profit Leaders for Climate Action.

Technology and sports have a fairly mixed relationship already. Log on to Twitter during a soccer match (or football as it's properly known*) and as well a

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Security flaw lets attackers escape sandboxes designed to contain malicious code.

Tesla is getting more aggressive in revoking paid software features on used cars, raising the stakes in a battle over what used Teslas can do that has raged for years.

Amazon donated $40,000 in funds to a major source of vaccine misinformation, according to a report from Popular Information.

The old Board of Estimate first decided back in 1965 to slice up the city into cable-TV franchise fiefdoms, a setup that has survived largely intact.

Republicans used a Senate hearing to complain that social media doesn't do enough for them. The problem is conservatives don't want to play by any rules.

Archives document Jim Watkins' links to domains suggestive of underage sexual material.

Hey, who needs rules on the Red Planet?

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Physicists have found a way to circumvent a 178-year old theory which means they can effectively cancel magnetic fields at a distance. They are the first to be able to do so in a way which has practical benefits.

Scammers are luring people into Google Drive documents in an attempt to get them to visit potentially malicious websites

For the better part of the last decade, cable and broadcast executives tried their hardest to pretend that their industry wasn't...

A “propensity to conspiracy theory" makes opponents of vaccination more vulnerable to anti-Semitic ideas, the document states.

Interest in the young streaming service is suspiciously weak, even among consumers who can get it for free.

The technology company has responded to the criticism, stressing it is not what it seems.

Facebook denies their algorithm change targeted specific sites, though it had a slanted political outcome and hurt the fortunes of publishers like Mother Jones

Google’s chief executive officer has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity.

As progress in traditional computing slows, new forms of computing are coming to the forefront. At Penn State, a team of engineers is attempting to pioneer a type of computing that mimics the efficiency of the brain’s neural networks while exploiting the…