A new proof from the Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan and a 2011 proof anonymously posted online are now being hailed as significant advances on a puzzle mathematicians have been studying…

The clinic’s practices are unsafe and unethical, five former clinic employees said.

Around a year ago, the research team presented a molecule that was capable of storing solar energy. The molecule, made from carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen, has the unique property that when it is hit by sunlight, it is transformed into an energy-rich isomer…

loopholes, licenses, and realpolitik in open source

I’ve been a big fan of Azure DevOps since the early days when the service was still named Visual Studio Online. I use it for both professional and personal projects, and I regularly recommended it …

We know that climate change is happening – but there are plenty of things individuals can do to help mitigate it. Here’s your handy guide to the most effective strategies.

We commissioned an independent human rights impact assessment on the role of our services in Myanmar.

In 1976, construction workers accidentally cut into a petroleum pipeline running under the streets of Culver City, California, resulting in a fatal explosion that essentially leveled half of a city block. It wasn’t the first or last accident of its kind,…

And out today, some low-end Xeon E parts.

In light of Oracle’s recent announcement indicating an end to free long-term support for OpenJDK after January 2019, we re-affirm that the OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 Java runtimes in Amazon Linux 2 will continue to receive free long-term support from Amazon…

Lizenzen: Wir verwenden für Bilder soweit angegeben Creative Commons Lizenzen ( Links zu den Linzenzen finden sie aus technischen Gründen hier CC BY SA, CC BY ND, CC BY )Thanks for the discussion on HN and all the feedback. As pointed out by 255kb, there…

Fearing nuclear war, in 1965 the UK government published advice on how members of the public should protect themselves against the Bomb. An experiment in York put it to the test.

Read this Magazine article to learn about the history of Fedora, the original Fedora Core 1 release, and how much has changed over 15 years.

Republicans' voter ID law is designed to disenfranchise Native Americans. It's working.

During its big customer event in Europe, VMware announced another acquisition to step up its game in helping enterprises build and run containerised, Kubernetes-based architectures: it has acquired Heptio, a startup out of Seattle that was co-founded by Joe…

How algorithms designed to alleviate poverty can perpetuate it instead

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire’s efforts to rally his European Union colleagues around a new tax on tech giants fell short, as countries skeptical of the plan doubled down on their opposition, and others, including Italy, said they’ll push ahead with…