Nature - Neuroscientists want to understand how tangles of neurons produce complex behaviours, but even the simplest networks defy understanding.

It's the best reply to questions you wish you weren't asked.

Octopuses, crabs and lobsters will receive greater welfare protection following an LSE report demonstrating they have capacity to experience pain or distress.

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Vehicles from Tesla Inc and electric sport utilities from rival brands are among the least reliable models sold in the United States, a reflection of the risks of new technology, Consumer Reports said on Thursday.

It all started with a meme tweet: Laugh, scroll past, then I started wondering, “what are the chances this obscure opcode is faster than optimized loads?” and I realized I had just been nerd sniped. So I decided to dig up my half-remembered memories of how…

There are infinite worlds to explore.

A stroad is a street/road hybrid. Stroads are dangerous and unproductive, and if we want to build strong towns, we have to eliminate them.

Yeah, so about that OpenPOWER Minimum Viable Product JavaScript JIT for Firefox. This happened (all timings from an unoptimized debug build ...

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TIL the assumption that string length does not change when upper-cased is false!

UPenn HSV2 vaccine candidate embraces mRNA technology

If we bake addressing tech debt into our plans, could it become an opportunity to build abundance into our systems?

'Make Amazon Pay' is led by coalition of workers and activists from 70 organizations, including Greenpeace, Oxfam, and Amazon Workers International.

What would .NET look like without Visual Studio? Open .NET has 13 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

It's like a Let's Play, but for obscure software documentation.
I tried to learn Nix, and it was pretty hard. I kept a diary of every command I tried, every wrong assumption that I made, and every realization that I had along the way.

The most common and universal file format for 3D printing is STL. It was released in 1987 and it’s dead simple. An STL file describes a raw, unstructured, triangulated surface. It doesn’t contain any scale, color or material information. There is...