T he postcard contained only two words: “Hurry up.”John Archibald Wheeler, a 33-year-old physicist, was in Hanford, Wash., working…

The internet suffers from a lack of imagination, so I asked my students to redesign it

When I was 17, Terrapin published my first commercial code on their C64 Logo utilities disk: a Logo Adventure program, a simple…

The World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China, has long showcased flashy new tech. This year, discussions also dealt with counterterrorism, data breaches and surveillance.

Analysis: Video is sped up to make reporter's actions look more aggressive.

In this tutorial, we’ll build a Python deep learning model that will predict the future behavior of stock prices.

Facebook is open-sourcing FBGEMM, a high-performance kernel library, optimized for server-side inference. Unlike other commonly available libraries, FBGEMM offers optimized on-CPU performance for r…

Friday's plunge sends Yelp to a 52-week low and makes for the stock's worst day of trading since going public in 2012.

This blog post describes techniques that utilize ACLs, maps, and stick tables.

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Abstract. Here, Ruby et al. analyze an unprecedented amount of public family tree data from Ancestry and determine that the heritability of human longevity was

The new documentary Fail State, executive produced by Dan Rather, tells the 50-year tale of profit-driven colleges scamming society’s most vulnerable

We have a cloud computing platform called Workers. Unlike essentially every other cloud computing platform I know of, it doesn’t use containers or virtual machines. We believe that is the future of Serverless and cloud computing in general, and I’ll try to…

RISE Project, an award-winning investigative journalism outlet in Romania and OCCRP’s partner, was ordered Thursday by the Romanian Data Protection Authority (ANSPDCP) to reveal its sources under the threat of a fine of up to €20 million based on the European…

Egyptologists stumble across ramp that helps explain how huge blocks of stones were hauled into place

Half of the world's countries now have too few babies being born to maintain their populations.

Facebook Inc. will aim to make its social media platform's users more than just friends with a new dating feature that will mark its North American launch in Canada on Thursday.