A retrospective on a few months of working on a graduate degree in computer science.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. missed sales estimates for the second consecutive quarter in a sign of continued weakness in global electronics demand.

The backlash was immediate after I spoke at the 2016 Northeast Conference on Science & Skepticism , which bills itself as a “celebration of science and critical thinking.” Although the conference had allotted me 10 minutes for questions, the stage manager…

Ascend Elements’ new recycling plant in Covington, Georgia is processing used lithium-ion batteries and manufacturing scrap into useful materials for the clean energy transition.

A new study finds that the effect of adding or deleting a stock from the S&P 500 index has disappeared over the past decade.

A conservation effort has worked well enough that there is now talk of sending some tigers to Cambodia to help that nation revive its own wild population.

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Debtors give multiple examples of irresponsible key storage. Keys to >$100M stored in unencrypted plaintext, for example, or in tools unsuitable for the job. Keys were often accessible by many employees with no auditing. Keys were poorly labeled, with names…

Something something Amplify is bad

Videos obtained by WIRED from public transit vehicles reveal self-driving cars causing delays and potential danger to buses, trains, and passengers.

How large language models process multilingual data differently

A team of nuclear physicists affiliated with multiple institutions in Japan, working with a colleague from Korea, has discovered a previously unknown uranium isotope with atomic number 92 and mass 241. ...

Sir Roger Penrose claims our Universe has been through multiple Big Bangs, with more coming — a claim that is not widely accepted within the cosmology community.

The unreasonable persistence of an old standard

Becoming fluent in my son’s invented language was too difficult for me, so I decided to see how would AI do.

People are motivated and engaged with the work only if they feel in charge of their own destiny. Make it clear to them that they are!