Italians may soon reckon with higher pasta prices amid a fall in durum wheat production.

I just learned from a colleague and it was confirmed by every student I asked, that 25% of students age 16-32 take Adderall 1-7X/week (not prescribed). And 5-10% do the same w/Modafinil or Armodafanil; 30-35% of students are on amphetamine. This is serious.…

Ensuring the success of big graph processing for the next decade and beyond.

With gas prices climbing up, you may think station owners are getting greedy. But the economics behind the pump tell a different story.

The health secretary rules out the scheme for nightclubs and large events, following much criticism.

why we use IRC nodes. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

President Biden moved to end the war in Afghanistan, but the proceedings against the remaining war-on-terror detainees, including the 9/11 suspects, drag on.

For most of the mid-twentieth century, lead gasoline was considered normal. But lead is a poison, and burning it has had dire consequences

The world's oldest active torrent file turns 18 years old this month and is still being seeded by dozens of people.

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NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) mission.

OpenAI told the developer he was no longer allowed to use its tech after he refused to insert a monitoring tool.

I got notified from Apple today that Quran Reader has been removed from sale in China because it has "content that is illegal in China as determined by the Cyberspace Administration of China". It's literally just the Quran. apps.apple.com/app/quran-read…