Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those…

Sellers on Amazon.com are reaching out to unhappy buyers to revise or delete negative reviews, in exchange for refunds or gift cards—in violation of the terms they agree to on the retail platform.

Put This In Your Pipe | In a [previous post](/blog/2012/03/shelling-out-sucks/), I talked about why

Some companies are offering “reviewer lookup” services so sellers can hunt down unsatisfied customers.

A set of rules has been drafted by the Australian government that cover safety expectations of platforms, and include the requirement for providers to take reasonable steps to develop and implement processes to detect and address material or activity in an…

Struggling to understand is perfectly honourable. Being wilfully stupid is something else and we should strive to fix it

A few years ago, back when the Constellation Program was still alive, NASA engineers discovered that the Ares I rocket had a crucial flaw, one that could have jeopardized the entire project. They panicked. They plotted. They steeled themselves for the hundreds…

Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network.

Wicker vessels recovered from the ruins of Thônis-Heracleion contain doum nuts and grape seeds

Scientists tend to study heatwaves and floods as discrete events – but this overlooks the crucial connections between them.

A handy guide to distinguishing the notoriously slippery concept from its distant cousins coincidence, satire, parody, and paradox.

Heating from humans has caused irreparable damage to the Earth that may get worse in coming decades.

The EFF, Snowden, and more have shared criticisms.

Workers at one of the world’s largest call center companies said additional monitoring would violate the privacy of their families in their homes.

Dan Walker and Sam Quek give you a behind the scenes look at the BBC's innovative TV studio for the Tokyo Olympics.