The baby-boomer communards leave behind a frightening, if unintentional, inheritance—a ravaged environment, eviscerated institutions, and an eroding democracy.

Privacy researchers raise concerns about the planned transfer of a DeepMind project in the UK to corporate sister Google.

After an absence of half a century, the radical, torpedo-shaped Čezeta is set to turn heads everywhere, says Martin Love

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The Self-Study Roadmap to Success at Software Engineering Interviews

Containment measures meant to stop a rampant bacterium have been frequently delayed.

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Apollo 14 almost never made it to the lunar surface thanks to a hardware failure which caused a short circuit in the abort switch. With the computer seeing the abort switch enabled the software team back on earth had a limited amount of time to figure out…

Update, 3/6/21: 2.5 years after they gave me a wild ride with admin access to their forums, Tesla announced that they will be killing off the Tesla Forums. You can still discuss Tesla on the DansDeals Forums here. Update, 1/13/19: Tesla has paid me a $1,000…

An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience.Spotify provides a stream...

Photographer Ed Gold lived alongside the off-grid community of Scoraig in the Highlands of Scotland.

Results from a new study may lead to approval of what could be the first drug that ameliorates potentially deadly reactions in children with severe peanut allergies.

For at least two decades, the New York City Housing Authority routinely disputed tests that revealed lead in its apartments. Private landlords almost never do this.

Depending on who you ask, “remote” working is either gaining steam in the tech industry or still a coveted-but-rare perk for the lucky few. A pattern that seems to be emerging is this: Tech giants like Amazon and Google, wagering that their corporate brand…

by Sohum Banerjea ⋅ edited by Aldrin Montana and Lindsey Kuper

I first learned about Douglas Prasher three years ago, when an algorithm we’d just developed made an unpredictable prediction: He…

They’re not cures for anything, and standing is not exercise.