California drought: Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years, scientists say

Having high levels of sugar in your diet is known to be bad for your health, but cutting it out can be difficult, particularly as it can trigger a range of unpleasant symptoms.

With two highly publicized events involving duct tape on aircraft, United Airlines is asking their flight crews not to follow the trend. In a memo to their crews, company leadership is requesting that tape not be used to restrain unruly flyers.

At least two American workers stationed in Germany sought medical treatment after developing symptoms of the mysterious illness, according to U.S. diplomats.

American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.

Suppose you want to pick an integer at random in a set of N elements. Your computer has functions to generate random 32-bit integers, how do you transform such numbers into indexes no larger than N? Suppose you have a hash table with a capacity N. Again,…

How to build your own AI art installation from scratch - GitHub - maxvfischer/DIY-ai-art: How to build your own AI art installation from scratch

Computational genetic engineering has enabled a method of "trapping" and killing viruses.

 

In our team at Rakuten, we have been using Elm1 in production for almost two years now. This post is about our story, the lessons we learned, and our likes and dislikes.
This post is quite long so if you prefer to see an overview, feel free to jump to the…

T-Mobile warned Monday that a data breach has exposed the names, date of birth, Social Security number and driver's license/ID information of more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers. The acknowledgment came less than 48 hours after millions…

An inquiry into a fierce culture war shines light on an insular sect of Judaism....

The watchlist, which included 1.9 million records, was left exposed online for three weeks, according to the researcher who found it.

A guerrilla artist pulled off an LA freeway sign prank that lasted for years before the state of California found out. Here's the story.

Trannoscript of interview on how tech changes the world

A Bayer array, or Bayer filter, is what lets a digital camera take color photos. It’s an array of tiny color filters that sit on top of a camera’s CCD. The filter makes it so that each …

As a developer pulls an app, Congress is eying forcing Apple to open up iOS.