San Francisco authorities hit back at Elon Musk and others who had used Lee’s killing to criticize law enforcement in the city.

Everyone knows that when you have similar code repeated several times that you should consolidate into a loop or function, but changing discrete variables into arrays and adding loops can have a small readability cost, so sometimes it can feel like a debatable…

Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be.

We calculated what place someone is most likely referring to, depending on where they are.

Days before entering space, Yuri Gagarin writes a letter to be opened in the event of his death

‘Rarely in history has the practice of preying on the weak been so severe, generated such profit, and touched the lives of so many.’

As many will remember, in August of 2022 the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) placed what it called “Tornado Cash” along with a list of Ethereum digital wallet addresses,

Overview of the effort to rewrite Servo’s layout engine, and our proposal for layout in Servo going forward.

The Zylin ZPU. Contribute to zylin/zpu development by creating an account on GitHub.

GNU toolchain for RISC-V, including GCC. Contribute to riscv-collab/riscv-gnu-toolchain development by creating an account on GitHub.

"The data were also altered -- intentionally or unintentionally -- in other ways, and those alterations produced the article's main findings," Pickett wrote in his request to have the study...

Chinese scientists report water in vast stores in moon dust. Are they right?

The beloved mountain lion P-22 connected humans to feline mysteries.

A closer look to a paper from MIT, Harvard and other institutions showing how ML model’s performance tend to degrade in time.

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“I notice that I haven’t noticed the skyscrapers, that they’ve seemed only natural. It’s a question of overall scale.”

The signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, opened channels for cooperation between businesses on either side of the Irish border and the emergence of an “all-island economy”. A quarter…

After paying fines for violations in Hungary and South Africa, Microsoft agreed to stop the practice—but I have evidence that I believe shows they continue to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act elsewhere.By Yasser ElabdI was recruited by Microsoft…

As researchers race to cultivate more of the intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few cells now growing in labs are giving us our best glimpses of the forerunners of all complex life.