Two typhoons followed by warm weather may have triggered Japan’s iconic trees to blossom months ahead of schedule

The Spanish flu emerged as the world was recovering from years of global war. It was to have some surprising and far-reaching effects.

Alex Stamos on the risks of giving his former employer and other giant platforms the power to determine what people can—and can’t—say online.

A software designer ended his life in his parked car in the East Village. His family asked the police for help finding him, but met resistance.

HashiCorp announces improved configuration language, remote operations, and new, free collaboration features for HashiCorp Terraform.

Quantum teleportation, which is the transfer of an unknown quantum state from one station to another over a certain distance with the help of nonlocal entanglement shared by a sender and a receiver, has been widely used as a fundamental element in quantum…

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Inside the ongoing argument over whether Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the blockchain are transforming the world.

A BuzzFeed News investigation uncovered a sophisticated ad fraud scheme involving more than 125 Android apps and websites, some of which were targeted at kids.

Mr. Wang was an entrepreneur and deal-maker who built a multibillion-dollar software business, then was a majority owner of the New York Islanders.

Lyft, the transportation on demand company that is heading to a $15 billion IPO in 2019, is racing ahead with its autonomous vehicle plans. TechCrunch has learned that it is acquiring the London-based augmented reality startup Blue Vision Labs and unveiling…

This replaces the existing fork-join threading infrastructure with a parallel task runtime (partr) that implements parallel depth first scheduling. This model fully supports nested parallelism.
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We thoroughly evaluate the claims made by Bloomberg in their Supermicro China tampering stories and found them likely impossible or implausible at best. We take stock of sources and discuss the next steps calling for formal SEC and shareholder investigations…

Nasa has released a striking photo of a rectangular iceberg floating in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, a blogger whose investigations focused on corruption, was described as a ‘one-woman WikiLeaks’

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus