My hypothesis was that Uber seemed to be picking a higher price because I had credits in my account. I might be willing to spend more because my 'real' out of pocket cost was less, and those credits were trapped anyway. I decided to use my Uber credits for…

Slimak et al. report the discovery of a late Neanderthal individual from Grotte Mandrin
in Mediterranean France and its genome. The genome reveals a relatively early divergence
at ∼100,000 years ago with other late Neanderthals. It belonged to a population…

Welcome to the new era of reliability. Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions has 9 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

iOS 18 includes a new over-the-air recovery feature designed to revive bricked iPhone 16 devices using another iPhone or an iPad, according to a new...

LinkedIn does not use European users' data for training its AI

AirGradient air quality monitoring.

Two years ago I was elected to the board of directors for the Python Software Foundation—the PSF. I recently returned from the annual PSF board retreat (this one was in …

Valve seems to be testing ARM64 and Android support on Steam, as per a new SteamDB leak. Popular noscripts like Left 4 Dead 2 and Garry's Mod are being tested with "proton-arm64" tags, among others. This could hint towards new future Valve hardware running on…

Exclusive: IPP prisoner Luke Ings was 17 when he was jailed for robbery and a fight in McDonald’s. Now aged 36, he still has no release date

Four in 10 London children stopped driving and started walking to school a year after the city's clean air zone went into effect.

There’s so little data available, it’s impossible to even tell if several of California’s largest homelessness programs are working.

Chatbots are now able to engage in sophisticated conversations with consumers in the domain of relationships, providing a potential coping solution to widescale societal loneliness. Behavioral...

A visualization of the passage of time using flies. Written in JavaScript with some HTML & CSS in one index.html. Feel free to reuse the code and create your own version.

Intel’s Meteor Lake chip signaled a change in Intel’s mobile strategy, moving away from the monolithic designs that had characterized Intel’s client designs for more than a decade.

According to a draft by the Council, EU member states should implement recommendations from the "Going Dark" expert group to address the "encryption problem".