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

It started with a Band-Aid. A $629 Band-Aid. A medical bill emailed to Vox senior policy correspondent Sarah Kliff got her interested in emergency room facility fees—a widely applied, highly variable, and little understood cost in the healthcare system. The…

Kids have a habit of imitating their parents’ criminal behavior. It’s no wonder, then, that by one measure, 10 percent of families account for two-thirds of criminals.

This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. Today we’re releasing React 16.6 with a few new convenient features. A form of PureComponent/shouldComponentUpdate for function components, a way to do code splitting using Suspense…

More side effects of the company’s recent fight with Evergrande, its main investor

Profit-sharing plans for rank-and-file employees are vanishing as corporate America has adopted a new approach toward who reaps a healthy company’s gains.

For many high-assurance applications such as TLS traffic, medical databases, and blockchains, forward secrecy is absolutely essential. It is not sufficient to prevent an attacker from immediately decrypting sensitive information. Here the threat model encompasses…

Array and hash table are probably the most important data structures. Some programming languages such as Perl, Lua and Javanoscript, almost build the language core on top of the two data structures. …

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