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Amazon used tips to pay wages from 2016 to 2019.

Tesla told the FCC that it plans to market a new radar starting next month. The move raises even more concerns about self-driving capabilities.

Chip veteran's comments come as Apple, AMD cheer shift of production to U.S.

In a discovery that has repercussions for everything from domestic agricultural policy to global food security and the plans to mitigate climate change, researchers at UMass Amherst recently announced that the rate of soil erosion in the Midwestern US is…

A decline in social status relative to better-paid peers is a key reason why so many American men have dropped out of the labor force, according to the latest paper to examine a conundrum that’s baffled economists for decades.

Scientist who oversees famed extinction-day site denies claims he made up data to scoop a former collaborator

How to run Wasm workloads with Docker Desktop

Free from Russian dictates over language usage and education, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan prepare to embrace Latin lettering. It’s the latest chapter in the region’s fraught history of alphabet reform.

Nature Communications - Engineering quantum states requires precise manipulations at the atomic level. Here, the authors use deep reinforcement learning to manipulate Ag adatoms on Ag surfaces,...

Wytham Abbey: one of the most stunning stately homes in in Britain, situated just outside Oxford.
Past residents include Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, and Joachim von Ribbentrop.
Together with the gardens, estate was on sale for £15m last year.
Three guesses…

Lets say you want to have a mutex for every item in a list with 10k elements. It feels a bit wasteful to use a std::mutex for each of those elements. In Linux std::mutex is 40 bytes, in Windows it&…

A shape-shifting event is currently occurring in the cultural film landscape and it’s not a positive one.

CERN and Fermilab jointly plan to provide AlmaLinux as the standard distribution for experiments at our facilities, reflecting recent experience and discussions with experiments and other stakeholders. AlmaLinux has recently been gaining traction among the…

In which I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft… and give it to you.

Intel recently announced a big driver update for their Arc GPUs on Windows, because their DirectX 9 performance wasn't as good as it could have been. Turns out, they're using code from the open source DXVK which is part of Steam Play Proton.

Why you (probably) don't need live chat on your website.

I know it is a common stereotype for an old guy to complain about how good the kids have it today. I, however, will take a little different approach: We have it so much better today when it comes t…