Two directions at once.

Sophie Fornairon's independent bookshop has survived the rise of Amazon thanks to a French law that prohibits price discounting on new books, but she says the e-commerce giant's ability to undercut on shipping still skews the market against stores like hers.

Microsoft has begun force installing the PC Health Check application on Windows 10 devices using a new KB5005463 update.

A top U.S. bank regulator said U.S. officials are looking to provide a clearer path for banks and their clients that are looking to hold cryptocurrencies, in order to keep control over the fast-developing asset.

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Learn how you can leverage Python and Pandas from directly inside PostgreSQL to build your own recommendation engine.

I have been planning a long due vacation and I was doing some research into the places I wanted to visit. My goto travel guide is Wikivoyage: it’s well organised, text-heavy (instead of slideshow-heavy alternatives) and skimming the guide of a region will…

A number of people have contacted me about a comment I wrote yesterday on Hacker News asking me to elaborate, e.g.: my impression is that...

Zendaya and Timmy are coming back for Part Two

This paper, written primarily for historians, attempts to explain why political leaders and central bankers continued to adhere to the gold standard as the Great Depression intensified. We do not focus on the effects of the gold standard on the Depression…

During the annual Python core development sprint we held a meeting with Sam Gross, the author of nogil, a fork of Python 3.9 that removes the GIL. This is a non-linear summary of the meeting.

As someone who rides, reviews, and covers news on electric motorcycles, I hear the same thing all the time: “I’d love an electric motorcycle, but they’re all so expensive. Maybe when prices come down.” And I get it. Electric motorcycles really are expensive.…

Nature - Catalogue of billions of phrases from 107 million papers could ease computerized searching of the literature.

Dangerously user-friendly web server for quick prototyping and hackathons - jstrieb/quickserv

Google exec challenges Berners-Lee | Director of Search says Net pioneer's Semantic Web vision could be hamstrung by incompetent Web masters. | July 18, 2006, 5:17 PM PT | Candace Lombardi

It can be difficult to differentiate individual owners from larger groups and exchanges that hold currency for many users, but the NBER was able to skirt this...

U.S. federal investigators today raided the U.S. offices of PAX Technology, a Chinese provider of point-of-sale devices used by millions of businesses and retailers globally. KrebsOnSecurity has learned the raid is tied to reports that PAX's systems may have…

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