A team of astronomers led by researchers from the University of Birmingham, University College London and Queen's University Belfast have discovered one of the most dramatic 'switches on' of a black hole ...

Indigenous leaders say the country has yet to fully reckon with its troubled colonial past — or put a stop to a decades-long practice that is considered a type of genocide.

A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. The false claim is a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead.

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The Akan people of Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Togo frequently name their children after the day of the week they were born and the order in which they were born. These "day names" have further meanings concerning the soul and character of the person. Middle…

The archaeological find in the Abydos burial ground is thought to date back about 5,000 years.

Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) developed a method of computing determinants which has some practical advantages.

Lockheed Martin F-117 Nighthawk was retired in 2008. Why was it discontinued, despite its numerous technological advantages?


What is Lockheed Martin F-117 Nighthawk?
The F-117 was developed in the 1970s and entered service in 1983. Its diamond shape…

Do not pass the buck to a computer.

The number of people who majored in computer science in the US isn't much higher in 2015 than in 2005. Why do so few students major in computer science?

The trend ran rampant in Indonesia until the government stepped in.

I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline support drone at a local web agency.


Everything that could have gone wrong this particular morning, had. I'd woken up late, made a mess of my breakfast, there…