The interstellar object called ‘Oumuamua continues to inspire analysis and speculation. And no wonder. We had limited time to observe it and were unable to obtain a resolved image to find out exactly what it looks like. This morning I want to go through a…

The $150 million Sierra gives America bragging rights to two of the top three positions in global supercomputing, ranking only behind Oak Ridge National Labs’s Summit and China’s Sunway TaihuLight.…

Ritual app for ending the work day inspired by Deep Work - GitHub - skidding/jobs-done: Ritual app for ending the work day inspired by Deep Work

The immune systems of a large majority of people could already be primed to attack and possibly even disable a key component of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing

Space invaders, but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm - victorqribeiro/invaderz

A surgery professor expresses fears over the consequences of a generation more adept at using screens.

This is the kind of tale that you don’t hear every day. During the installation of a new MRI machine, a technician started getting calls that iPhones weren’t working—but Androids were just fine.

Scientists discovered over 1,000 females, many brooding eggs, in a shimmering “octopus garden" that may be seeping natural gas or hot water.

In-depth analysis of the incident that impacted GitHub services on October 21 and 22.

Money is everywhere. Banking apps, e-commerce websites, stock exchange platforms, we interact with money daily. We also increasingly rely on technology to ha...

On the eve of the 2018 midterms, Facebook's "Paid for by" disclosure for political ads is easily manipulated.

It’s often easy to imagine balloons soaring or butterflies fluttering across a still image, but realizing this vision through computer animation is easier said than done. Now, a team of researchers

We’re pleased to announce the availability of Managed CockroachDB, the fully hosted and fully managed service run by Cockroach Labs that makes deploying, scaling, and managing effortless.

Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2018. "Our community and business continue to grow quickly, and now more than 2 billion people use at least one of our services every day," said Mark Zuckerberg…

Assuming this all works out, the image in this tweet is also a valid ZIP archive, containing a multipart RAR archive, containing the complete works of Shakespeare. This technique also survives twitter's thumbnailer :P

A Chinese dissident smuggled a letter into decorations he was forced to make. Years later, a woman in the US discovered it.

Huge thank you to Joe Wallin, Kevin McArdle, and Rich Thornett for their help with this post and project. This is a post about the technical decisions we’ve made on a new “funding structure for bootstrappers” and a call for feedback from the founder community.…