Weighing into the fierce national debate over Covid-19 prevention and treatments, the state would be the first to try a legal remedy for vaccine disinformation.

How to run Stable Diffusion locally so you can hack on it

It’s time to reverse the trend, both in autocracies and in countries where the decline has been slower but just as damaging.

Scaring children won’t keep them safe. Instead, help them see the good in the world.

In this excerpt from Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), Grace Hale sets the scene and introduces the major theme of her new book: how in the 1980s…

The moon contains a lot of mineral wealth—but how practical is mining it?

Time to talk Turkey.

This study investigates domestic cat meows in different contexts and mental states. Measures of fundamental frequency (f0) and duration as well as f0 contours of 780 meows from 40 cats were analysed. We found significant effects of recording context and of…

Discover how PlanetScale handles one million queries per second (QPS) with horizontal sharding in MySQL

The Texas blacklist follows a similar move by West Virginia in July and came the day after Florida barred its pension fund from considering environmental, social and governance factors in investment decisions.

Someone hacked #YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to Kutuzov Prospect in Moscow

Now there is a huge traffic jam with taxis.

It‘s like James Bond movie.

As California declares an extreme heat emergency its legislators have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill that will enable the state's only nuclear power plant to remain in operation for up to five years longer than currently planned.

Twitter's security issues might be "egregious," but they're also all too common.

If we consider technology sufficiently advanced indistinguishable from magic, then the closest we get to ancient magical glyphs are barco...