In 1988, the anthropologist Joseph Tainter published a book called The Collapse of Complex Societies. In it, he described the rise and fall of great civilizations such as the Romans, the Mayans, an…

Some speculative hypotheses

Available in public beta today, we're announcing Achievements as a new way to commemorate milestones on GitHub.

Vivaldi browser launches a powerful built-in mail client Vivaldi Mail with an integrated Vivaldi Calendar, and Feed Reader. Download desktop and notebooks.

Egbert v. Boule is a severe blow to the proposition that law enforcement must obey the Constitution.

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux

Fragmentation has put paid to the dream of this OS ever being bigger than Windows

The first thing many people do in the morning is check their calendar. It anchors the day, paints a picture of what’s ahead, and keeps track of how we spend our most precious resource: time. Today, we’re excited to announce that much-loved calendar, Cron…

Large neural networks are at the core of many recent advances in AI, but training them is a difficult engineering and research challenge which requires orchestrating a cluster of GPUs to perform a single synchronized calculation.

Terra's Do Kwon seems to be in more trouble as SEC has reportedly got its hands on the money laundering activities of Do Kwon.

On 11 May, the European Commission published its proposal for a regulation to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The Commission managed to squeeze a host of controversial digital rights iss…

There's a human element to these stories that is rarely seen by the public

It's been over a year since I killed my startup, and a few weeks ago I revisited the spot where I decided to do it. It's about time I talk about it