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These mail-order dwellings democratized homebuying, one kit at a time

Kentucky’s willingness to gamble massively on high-risk alternative investments for its pensions has made the state an easy mark for Wall Street hucksters.

Palau, under threat from sea level rise, wants to have 70 percent renewable energy by 2050

I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer:

Competitive savings rates are attracting non-believers

SemiAccurate has learned that Intel just pulled the plug on their woeful 10nm process. Read more ▶

Protocol is a command-line tool to display ASCII RFC-like protocol header diagrams for both existing network protocols or user-defined ones (using a very simple syntax). Protocol is written in Python and it's open-source software.

Lawrence Lessig was once best-known as the special master in the Microsoft Antitrust Case, then he was best known as the co-founder of Creative Commons, then as a fire-breathing corruption fighter: in America, Compromised, a long essay (or short nonfiction…

Some years ago an investor I met at a TechCrunch event invited me out for a coffee. This happens a lot; as a weekly columnist here I am deemed an official Media Influencer, and people in turn want to influence me, until they realize I’m just going to ignore…

Little about the PC industry of the early 1990s survives. But 25 years after it was first introduced–and after many technological shifts–a ThinkPad remains a ThinkPad.

David R. Chan’s love of lists and determination never to eat at the same place twice has seen him become an accidental expert on Chinese-American history. Just don’t call him a foodie

Last week, I noticed that Facebook had started to attach a query parameter called "fbclid" to outbound links.