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.

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Around six weeks ago, the Tesla Model 3 Performance squared off against the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio and the Jaguar I-PACE EV400 around the “Streets” of Willow Springs International Raceway in CA. The track tests, which were conducted by auto publication…

Getting the iPad to Pro — The new iPad Pro is a computer from the future, with software from yesterday

On Tuesday AMD announced Rome, the 7nm 64-core 9-die monster that SemiAccurate exclusively brought you months ago.Read more ▶

A catalogue of software constructs, languages, or APIs which are unexpectedly Turing-complete; implications for security and reliability.

Hackers siphoned off thousands of Healthcare.gov applications by breaking into the accounts of brokers and agents tasked with helping customers sign up for healthcare plans. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said in a post buried on its…

What’s less often recognized is that loneliness could cause be a cause of brain damage as well, at least if we go by rodent studies.

Amazon.com Inc. has taken another step toward eliminating software from Oracle Corp. that has long helped the e-commerce giant run its retail business.

Everyone’s favorite apple is leaving Northeastern orchards out on a limb.

The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari thinks Silicon Valley is an engine of dystopian ruin. So why do the digital elite adore him so?