Engineering students join Google and Microsoft workers in protesting the tech-industry's enabling of U.S. militarism

These are bleak times — but a lot of things are improving.

Forty years ago, Sigmund Jähn became the first German to travel into space. But he did so on behalf of East Germany. Is that why he isn't honored in today's Germany?

Ex-energy trader John Arnold has put millions behind efforts to curb prices. Drugmakers say his view is flawed and oversimplified, and will restrict patients’ access to important medicines.

Today we are excited to announce the official release of editor.p5js.org! The p5.js Web Editor is an online platform for learning to code…

Yesterday I had lunch with a former Ph.D student of mine, who is now highly successful and tenured at a very good school.  I was reminded that, over twenty years ago, I was Graduate Director of Admissions.  One of my favorite strategies was to take strong…

The in-development GCC 9 and glibc 2.29 are packed with performance improvements for Arm-based systems. Learn about auto-vectorization enhancements that allow the compiler to make the most of Advanced SIMD instruction set capabilities and math library improvements…

Firms paying refunds to buyers who write five-star reviews on Amazon, consumer group says

Infinite scroll may be disorienting, difficult to control, and stressful for some users, so you may want to consider these alternative options.

A fix is out but the plugin is used in hundreds, if not thousands, of projects. Patching will take ages!

I don’t like @GaryVee.

Web scraping is the extraction of data from web pages. But most web pages aren’t designed to accomodate automated data extraction; instead, they’re designed to be easily read by humans, with colors and fonts and pictures and all sorts of junk. This makes…

A targeted, preventative approach may accelerate progress on ending the AIDS epidemic.

The European-Japanese spacecraft will be the third mission to the rocky planet closest to the sun.