In a highly controversial move, the Food and Drug Administration approved an especially powerful opioid painkiller despite criticism that the medicine

Twitter is apologizing for the fact that "Kill all Jews" appeared as a trending topic on its platform Friday.

Beijing-based ByteDance's 2017 acquisition of tween and teen-focused social app Musical.ly is paying off. The company this year merged Musical.ly with its

In this blog I am going to evaluate the use of Intel Optane SSD drives to boost the performance of MariaDB ColumnStore both as storage and for the more novel case as RAM using the Intel Memory Drive…

We learn it at high school: release two objects of different mass in the absence of friction forces and they fall down at the same rate in Earth’s gravity. What we haven’t learned, because it hasn’t been directly measured in experiments, is whether antimatter falls…

Rockset Chief Architect Tudor Bosman discusses strong dynamic typing in SQL, and how it is implemented in Rockset.

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Peter Thiel, the Facebook Inc. board member who helped Donald Trump win the White House and became Silicon Valley’s punching bag in the process, said Thursday that Trump has been “relatively successful” and that he’ll support him in 2020.

Charlie Shrem went to prison in 2015 after he pleaded guilty to helping people buy drugs online. Now he’s being sued by the Winklevoss twins.

A black man started an urban farm in his old neighborhood. Three white women called the police repeatedly, accusing him of threatening them. The case went to court.

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