How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection juggernaut.

John Ochsendorf wants to tear down Rome’s iconic Pantheon. He wants to pull apart its 2,000-year-old walls until its gorgeous dome…

Eight thousand light-years from Earth, just below Scorpio, there's a cosmic serpent that's been hiding a secret sting in its tail. In a sinuous curl of glowing dust, astronomers have discovered a binary star system unlike any other in the Milky Way

It looks like the hedge-fund equivalent of a hostage video.

MTA officials warned they may have to drastically cut service or increase fares as deficits are expected to hit nearly $1bn by 2022

A toxic combination of slow wage growth and skyrocketing rents has put housing out of reach for a greater number of people.

Companies Aim to Improve Information Exchange Across All Construction Project Teams SAN RAFAEL, CA, Nov 20, 2018 — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PlanGrid, a leading provider of construction productivity software…

Android devices are based on the Linux kernel but, since the beginning,
those devices have not run mainline kernels. The amount of out-of-tree
code shipped on those devices has been seen as a problem for
most of this time, and significant resources have…

Casey Neistat’s viral filmmaking secret

Watergate revealed that multinational corporations, including some of the most prestigious American brands, had been making bribes to politicians not only at home but in foreign countries.

Nature Communications - Online misinformation is a threat to a well-informed electorate and undermines democracy. Here, the authors analyse the spread of articles on Twitter, find that bots play a...

In 1982, during the middle of The Game between rivals Harvard and Yale, a third player entered the game when MIT students pulled the greatest prank in college football history.

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A benchmark for low-level CPU micro-architectural features - travisdowns/uarch-bench

I grew up in Los Angeles and my parents would make a big deal out of Thanksgiving each year, even when it was just me and my sister, which I didn’t fully appreciate what a nice tradition they had created until I left home. There’s something about being able…