Preliminary finding turns heads at neuroscience meeting

Destruction likely to be just the tip of the iceberg, campaigners warn

A supposed kill switch built into computers with Apple’s new T2 chip may shut out third-party repairs.

Researchers have that found that 3D printers spew tiny particles into the air as they operate, though the quantity and nature of these potentially toxic aerosols are poorly understood. A new study identifies a startling variety of these emissions, and the…

The German software giant can turbocharge Qualtrics sales, but that still doesn’t explain why it had to pay so much to buy it. 

BGP route leak interrupts access to Google’s services throughout the world. Traffic rerouted via Russia and China and slammed into the great firewall.

The long read: There is a notion that the Great War was a shocking rupture in civilisation that tore a peaceful world apart. But for millions who had long been living under imperialist rule, terror and degradation were not new

Dan Holohan began his career working with his father at a NY-based manufacturers representative. Big Ed Holohan encouraged him to join the heating industry saying, “Kid, this is the best business to be in because people are always going to need heat, especially…

Many people choose Medium lately as their go-to platform to blog. Kind of like Blogger a while back, it just seems what everybody has been…

About 5 years ago, I decided to write an iOS app. I wasn’t satisfied with the features of the Hacker News clients I had downloaded from…

Introduction In 2012, two research papers were published that described the design of geographically replicated, consistent, ACID complia...

Risk USA: Neural nets beat other models in tests, but results could not be explained

By Christian Jarrett. For many people, there are specific issues for which the truth is less about facts and more about faith and identity.

Late last month I announced that we are working on an AWS Region in South Africa. Today I would like to let you know that we are also building an AWS Region in Italy and plan to open it up in early 2020. Milan in 2020 The upcoming Europe (Milan) Region will…

Plants are boring. They just sit there photosynthesizing while animals have all the fun. Right? Not so much. Take a look at the interactions between ants and plants—plants have evolved features specifically ...

This article is introducing a new graphics shading language for the Web named Web High Level Shading Language (WHLSL, pronounced “whistle”).