Oakland Interim City Administrator G Harold Duffey on Tuesday issued a local state of emergency due to “ongoing impacts” of network outages caused by ransomware, the city announced on Twitter. 

A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine led to it declaring its love for me.

An online virtual reality sex worker was left confused and frustrated when, after applying for a United States tourist visa, she said she received a letter explaining she was “permanently ineligible” for admission to the U.S. The reason given was “prostitution.”…

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Experts point to three main reasons drivers are blinded on the road: misaligned headlights, taller vehicles, and different-colored lights.

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E-signature software company DocuSign on Thursday announced plans to cut around 10% of its workforce.

It costs a lot more to book a vacation rental these days than it did before the pandemic — despite leaders of the best-known rental platform touting their company as a bargain relative to traditional hotels.

This paper investigates how database systems would be designed and used under the
limiting-case assumption that mass storage is free. It is argued that free mass storage
would free database systems from the limitations and problems caused by ...

Stephen Wolfram considers if numbers are actually required, the use of symbolics and the potential for the growing role of computational irreducibility.

Wojcicki, who took over as YouTube CEO in 2014, is starting "a new chapter focused on my family, health and personal projects I'm passionate about.".

For some venture capitalists, we're approaching a night of the living dead.

At Browserling and Online Tools, one simple trick changed our marketing email open rate from 20% to 60%. This trick was to start sending the emails at the same hour the user last visited our website. For example, if a user was last on our website at 3:43pm…

A personal update from Susan on stepping back from her role as CEO of YouTube.

When you use supermarket discount cards, you are sharing much more than what is in your cart—and grocery chains like Kroger are reaping huge profits selling this data to brands and advertisers

An ancient human foraging instinct, fueled by fructose, may hold clues to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers.