Astronomers have discovered a planet in orbit around one of the closest stars to the Sun, Barnard's star.

A survey found just 52% of employees were optimistic about Facebook’s future, down from 84% a year earlier. The darker mood comes amid a dropping share price and disclosures of privacy violations.

We all know our political system is “broken” — but what if that’s not true? Some say the Republicans and Democrats constitute a wildly successful industry that has colluded to kill off competition, stifle reform, and drive the country apart. So what are you…

Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — the social network faced one scandal after another. This is how Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg responded.

An MIT team built an algorithm to optimize bell times and bus routes. The furor around the plan offers lessons in how we talk to people when we talk to them about artificial intelligence.

Swatter Tyler Barriss, 26, pled guilty yesterday to the crimes that led police to forcibly enter the home of Wichita resident Andrew Finch, who died from an officer’s gunshot wound. Barriss originally pled not guilty to this fatal instance of swatting, which…

New York state is kicking in more than $1.5 billion in taxpayer-funded incentives for getting half of Amazon's second headquarters located in a section of Queens.

Microsoft appears likely to solidify its No. 2 spot behind Amazon in 2019.

Uber’s sales are dramatically slowing even as the ride-hailing company is spending more to fuel global growth, particularly in its food delivery business. Revenue growth of 38 percent in the third quarter was almost half of what the growth rate was six months…

Text as Data - q is a command line tool that allows direct execution of SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files).

A short denoscription of the C++ build process. Contribute to green7ea/cpp-compilation development by creating an account on GitHub.

Big-box retailers nationwide are slashing their property taxes through a legal loophole known as "dark store theory." For the towns that rely on that revenue, this could be a disaster.

Following heavy criticism over its handling of Russian election interference on its platform, Facebook in October 2017 expanded its work with Definers Public Affairs, a Washington public relations firm, according to a report in the New York Times. That firm…

Classical mythology is full of robots, automata and technology. Think not only Pandora, but self-opening gates and libation-pouring statues

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Rapid consolidation has created powerful groups of hospitals, with organizations dictating prices and fueling health spending in some areas of the country.