Nature - A laboratory has been growing 12 populations of E. coli since 1988 — this year, the cultures will get a new custodian.

CockroachDB's consistency model fits somewhere between serializability and linerarizability. We're proposing a new marketing phrase for CRDB's guarantees: no stale reads.

The early promises about the utopia that the internet would bring us have proven wrong. The internet can never deliver on all it’s capable of when it’s run for profit — we need a publicly owned internet.

A brief discussion on Reddit about my post criticizing Penn Station expansion plans led me to write a very long comment, which I’d like to hoist to a full post explaining how big an urban tra…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is warning that two nonstick and stain-resistant compounds found in drinking water are more dangerous than previously thought and pose health risks even at levels so low they cannot currently be detected.

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Pass is the standard unix password manager, a lightweight password manager that uses GPG and Git for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the US is approved by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel.

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Brewster Kahle has a modest goal: to digitize every book ever printed, and put them online for free public access.

In an email, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president, said the letter had made other employees “feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied.”

The losses expose the big drawback of adding a highly volatile asset to a company's balance sheet, which is typically reserved for more stable assets.

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The Department of Defense has a lot of pollution to slash.

An incident of negligence by the smartphone maker has been reported where 13,557 Vivo smartphones were found to be operating under the same IMEI number