It may be counterintuitive. But some argue that the key to training AI systems that must work in messy real-world environments, such as self-driving cars and warehouse robots, is not, in fact, real-world data. Instead, some say, synthetic data is what will…

More than half of unemployed American men in their 30s have a history of being arrested or convicted of a crime, a stigma that poses a barrier to them participating in the nation's labor force, according ...

Python-based calculations, especially those that use NumPy, can run much faster by using the Numba library.

This photograph shows the leopard that explorer Carl Akeley killed with his bare hands during one of his African expeditions.

A single activist helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the world’s most sophisticated spyware companies now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington over damaging new allegations that its software was used to hack government officials…

I’ve been playing with GitHub Copilot, an IDE extensions that uses GitHub’s vast knowledge of how people code to suggest what you probably meant to type next. I’m running it through Visual Studio Code, but it also runs in JetBrains and Neovim.

How Twitter moved from a home grown logging platform to the commercially available Splunk and the challenges we’ve encountered along the way.

@jeff_replies @gevmage (and 3 others) Jeff is correct - the entire semiconductor roadmap naming has been divorced from physical dimensions for years. Most of the folks in the semiconductor industry are aware of this. Intel realized that their naming convention…

We are pleased to announce that Works in Progress has a new home at Stripe, where we’ll be teaming up with Stripe Press to further ideas for economic, scientific and technological advancement.

Many military radars interfere with open source satellite imagery when they're turned on. A new tool lets anyone monitor when and where these radars are deployed.

Algorithms that use the brain’s communication signal can now work on analog neuromorphic chips, which closely mimic our energy-efficient brains.

Although people take longer to make decisions from age 20 onwards, this may not be due to a decline in the speed of information processing, a large study has found

Overview As previously mentioned in #3816, #3834, and #4018, the OBS team has internally discussed deprecating FTL and eventually removing it from OBS. I'd like this discussion to serve as a me...

WebKit supports new API that makes it possible for web apps to create, open, read, and write files directly, or create directories and enumerate their contents.

The dating app that works. When you match on Cuffed, you’ll only be talking to each other.