On the complex structural and microeconomic reasons why debt collection ends up so sordid.

Last year, research cast doubt on the dominant ‘chemical imbalance’ theory of depression. Now two persuasive books by scientists Philip Gold and Camilla Nord offer very different causes of the illness – though both are optimistic about our future treatment…

Scientific Reports - Effect of breathwork on stress and mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised-controlled trials

A talk with architecture critic Justin Davidson about the thorny knot of issues involved at New York’s most conflicted transportation-entertainment site.

Vacuum-tube effect might simplify cryogenic chambers

Demos, Game Pass downloads and re-installations won't all trigger fees.

A few months ago in June, I attended a local-first meetup in Berlin organized by Johannes Schickling, formerly the founder of Prisma. An…

Companies choose Alphabet Inc.’s Google as the default search engine for their browsers and smartphones because it is the best one, and not because of a lack of competition, a Google lawyer said Tuesday at the start of a high-stakes antitrust trial in Washington.

We continue the investigation into the power of smaller Transformer-based language models as initiated by \textbf{TinyStories} -- a 10 million parameter model that can produce coherent English --...

Part five of my seven-part series on kickstarting and scaling a B2B business

The judges of the Gilbert et Gaillard international wine competition were duped into awarding this year's gold medal to a €2.50 ($2.70) supermarket wine.

The common pattern of trying to delete yourself.

When keeping cultural archives safe means stepping outside the law

The evolution of the AI landscape, and YC's Copilot era.

A decline in third places (bars, parks, coffee shops, pools) is exacerbating the US loneliness crisis. If we build them, people will come together.

The enshittification of the popular game engine got much worse today, with some developers saying they are already looking at open source alternatives.

PayPal now offers its customers two types of U.S. dollars. In addition to having the option of opening a traditional PayPal account to maint...