Update (4/27/2023): Amazon S3 now automatically enables S3 Block Public Access and disables S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets in all AWS Regions. Update (August 2019)– Fresh screen shots and changes to the names of the options. Newly created…

A sensor that can spot the wind direction from miles away will let DARPA’s surveillance balloons hover at the very edge of space in one spot indefinitely.

Teachers are often unqualified, ignorant or absent; tablets show up and work

Scientists this week released a conceptual design report for a next-generation particle accelerator in China, which would serve as a “Higgs boson factory,” as its proponents have called it.

If you want enterprise customers, then users are just half your audience. The other half are buyers—executives with budget authority. Many startups focus on the users and forget about the buyers, then struggle to sell.

Greek archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of a city believed to have been founded by Trojan prisoners of war in the 12th or 13th century BC.

Canadian researchers have discovered a new kind of organism that’s so different from other living things that it doesn’t fit into the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, or any other kingdom used to classify known organisms.

Despite vast increases in the time and money spent on research, progress is barely keeping pace with the past. What went wrong?

A homeless man and couple who crowdfunded thousands have been charged with conspiracy and theft.

A Lua 5.3 engine implemented in Go. Contribute to Azure/golua development by creating an account on GitHub.

Microsoft is reportedly planning to ads to the Mail app in Windows 10. Yikes.

There is always at least a small risk when installing a package for a
distribution. By its very nature, package installation is an invasive
process; some packages require the ability to make radical changes to the
system—changes that users surely would not…

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Today marks the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, which brought the Great War to an end. The Great War, of course, would later come to be known as the First World War because an even greater war …