Of all the questions I get on Twitter the most common is this: “How do you build a town?” We know how it used to be done, but these last two centuries we have forgotten how to do it.

A group from the New York University School of Medicine have designed a smart, closed-loop brain implant to detect and relieve bursts of pain in real time.

Some academics argue that unhappy elites lead to political instability

From “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” to “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” what do bestselling guides to self-improvement reveal about the United States?

Chime, a “neobank” serving millions, is racking up complaints from users who can’t access their cash. The company says it’s cracking down on an “extraordinary surge” in fraudulent deposits. That’s little consolation to customers caught in the fray.

Today, the European Parliament approved the ePrivacy Derogation, allowing providers of e-mail and messaging services to automatically search all personal messages of each citizen for presumed suspect content and report suspected cases to the police. The European…

Ending a long-running mystery, a construction worker guided the police to the hiding place after admitting he had taken the works in a daring one-man raid on the National Gallery in Athens in 2012.

The Pentagon has announced a new direction for its enterprise cloud effort called the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC), a multi-cloud, multi-vendor contract.

Creation of hydrogen peroxide in situ could provide clean, drinkable water to communities in the poorest nations around the world.

Disclaimer: I really thought long about this, and I haven't slept in two days due to ongoing harassments of 4chan. As the first people were literally arriving at my place of living, where t...

For years, the powers that be on Wall Street have toyed with questions about whether it would be feasible to move the stock market onto a blockchain, the underlying technology behind cryptocurrencies.The innovators in the fast-moving world of decentralized…

It has been over 10 years since the Netflix Prize finished, and I was not expecting to write a blog post about it at this point. However, just in the past couple of weeks I have found myself talking about it extensively both in the context of a Tw...

From a CEO: “I interviewed 12 candidates this week… 60% are looking for new roles because their current company is asking them to come back to the office 3+ days/week” It’s happening

The Chinese tech company will use its “Midnight Patrol” system to keep tabs on minors’ screen time as it continues to combat gaming addiction among younger players.

A new study by researchers at Yale University has shown that a single dose of psilocybin given to mice prompted an immediate and long-lasting increase in connections between neurons. Psilocybin is a naturally occurring compound found in magic mushrooms and…

A controversial dam project could be avoided (and save billions) by merely replacing water heaters en masse

How Transcend solved the core technical problem of user tracking consent and built an alternative to pop-up cookie banners.