Meng Wanzhou is facing extradition to the United States on suspicion she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran

Google will announce that it’s shutting down the shortlived Google Allo chat app “soon,” according to a reliable source familiar with the plan, although the timeline of the announcement may have been delayed by the backlash stemming from our report about…

This study by PERI researchers Robert Pollin, James Heintz, Peter Arno, Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Michael Ash presents a comprehensive analysis of the p...

‘A middle-aged woman in teddy bear-spangled pajamas came hurtling down on a flatbed tricycle.’ Pallavi Aiyar returns to China.

An overview into CVE-2018-1002105's root cause and a program to test if your clusters are affected

Accomplishments from the first five years of Facebook AI Research (FAIR)

The company just posted another quarter of jaw-dropping losses. How much is hype and how much is real?

The most comprehensive public database of Y Combinator companies and everything you need to know about them - all YC batches

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Earlier today Australia's House of Representatives passed the Assistance and Access Bill, which is also known as the Anti-Encryption Bill. Concerns over the rushed Bill are high - especially as the parliamentary year draws to a close. Today's amendments…

From 7 pm to 7:45 pm on Tuesday, publishers saw mysterious yellow 300x250 ads blanket their sites. Paying CPMs north of $20, the yellow square ad elbowed out other buyers with its big spending. Hourly revenue spiked many times over publishers’ normal averages.…

We may never be able to build a machine that can recognize the full diversity of human emotional experience

Imagine going back in time to tell a MacPaint user in 1985 that they’d have to learn how to use Undo in an Apple-award-winning paint app in 2018. That’s where we are.

In cryptography, trust is mathematically provable. Everything else is just faith.

We describe a systematic approach for replacing locks with tasks. In this approach thread blocking is replaced by properly scheduling of tasks.

It's the first U.S. city to set pay minimums for ride-hail drivers, months after temporarily halting new Uber licenses

Security agencies will gain greater access to encrypted messages after a Labor backdown allowed the Federal Government to pass its legislation on Parliament's final sitting day.

by James Wallace Harris, Tuesday, November 20, 2018 When the scientific discipline of artificial intelligence emerged in the 1950’s academics began to seriously believe that someday a compute…

From a trash-filled Earth to the futuristic Axiom and back again, WALL·E is a finely crafted balance between consumerist dystopia and sixties space-race optimism. Please join me, then, for a detail…