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.

Tech bros love to whine about "The EU cookie policy" that simply doesn't exist the way they imagine it. All these popups are the most radical way to interpret the explicit consent demanded by regulations when sending data to a 3rd party or collecting personal…

Researchers study emergent AI behaviors in a sandbox world inspired by The Sims.

As the U.S. deals with a nationwide swatting wave, Motherboard has traced much of the activity to a particular swatting-as-a-service account on Telegram. Torswats uses synthesized voices to pressure law enforcement to specific locations.

Mike, thanks for agreeing to answer some of my questions. How did you come to the idea to commercialize Sidekiq?

Code to accompany "A Method for Animating Children's Drawings of the Human Figure" - facebookresearch/AnimatedDrawings