From its founding, OpenAI said its governing documents were available to the public. When WIRED requested copies after the company’s boardroom drama, it declined to provide them.

The fearsome Japanese samurai, a legendary figure whose primary attribute was loyalty or honor, needs no introduction. He is strongly associated with the equally famous katana. The popular image of the samurai probably would appear wearing armor but certainly…

The Sheep and the Flower - a demoscene production and real-time animation that looks like a standard short animated movie, in just 8kB

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Nature - Flavour variations are mainly the result of changes at the chromosome level, sequencing effort finds.

The explosion of the e-commerce economy has created an opportunity for thieves — and a conundrum for the railways.

Modern authoritarian regimes don’t attempt total, absolute control. Their censorship is more selective and calibrated — and thus more resilient.

Nature - After decades of frustration and failed attempts, scientists might finally be on the cusp of developing therapies to restore immune ‘tolerance’ in conditions such as diabetes, lupus and...

A wide-spanning investigation by 404 Media reveals more details about a secretive spy tool that can tracks billions of phone profiles through the advertising industry called Patternz. Google has taken action in response to 404 Media's inquiries.

Many of America’s critical sources of underground water are in a state of rapid and accelerating decline, a new study has found. More than half of the aquifers in the United States (53 percent) are…

I’ve started work on the next in my 1-bit Woodblocks series: “Tekagami” (Ito Shinsui’s “Hand Mirror”). So it’s a good time to talk about how I turned an iPad...

Programmable matter can reconfigure and adapt autonomously, extending to high-performance mechanical materials at scale.

BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software Framework - flame/blis

A dearth of information can halt transactions on secondary markets.

Cognition researchers are discovering surprising capabilities among a group of itsy-bitsy arachnids

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