Prepublication peer review should be abolished. We consider the effects that such a change will have on the social structure of science, paying particular attention to the changed incentive structure and the likely effects on the behaviour of individual scientists.…

Hello Autopians! Have you ever wondered why designers show sketches of concept cars with massive deep dish wheels, but when those cars actually make it to production the wheels end up being fairly flat? Adrian Clarke talked about this recently from a designers…

Oscar Niemeyer abandoned his country but not his lifelong political principles to create the French Communist Party headquarters in Paris.

Not everything needs to be seen to be believed; certain things are more readily heard, like a train approaching its station. In a recent paper, published in Physical Review Letters, researchers have put their ears to the rail, discovering a new property of…

The world of enterprise software is often a little staid. Not today, however. The Securities and Exchange Commission today said it has charged the cloud computing giant VMware for “misleading investors about its order backlog management practices, which enabled…

This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It was originally published in the fifth issue of Eye on Design magazine and again online on August 8, 2019. I’m looking at porn with a woman I met on the…

A recent post received numerous comments asking why I was so concerned about privacy and asking what I have to hide. Here's my reply...

It's been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999 and I still haven't heard anything on the support ticket. Is there any way we could get in touch @Google?

(it's OK if you don't want it back...)

Google suffered one of its biggest setbacks on Wednesday when a top European court upheld a ruling that it broke competition rules and fined it a record 4.1 billion euros, in a move that may encourage other regulators to ratchet up pressure on the U.S. giant.

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele thought making Bitcoin legal tender would revolutionise his country’s economy, He was wrong.

Discover the first batch of color fonts on Google Fonts. Customize color palettes, add gradients, and more with COLRv1.

Hacktoberfest: a month-long celebration of open-source projects, their maintainers, and the entire community of contributors.

IO_uring continues to prove itself to be one of the most exciting fundamental innovations to the Linux kernel of the past decade