Uber filed paperwork confidentially this week for its initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, as it races with smaller rival Lyft to be the first to market.

Introduction Low-calorie sweetener use for weight control has come under increasing scrutiny as obesity, especially abdominal obesity, remain entrenched despite substantial low-calorie sweetener use. We evaluated whether chronic low-calorie sweetener use…

THREAD: About the Fortnite hysteria, from a professor who studies video games and mental health and who is also a parent of two 12-year old boys that play Fortnite. 1/N

MIT team Jamison Go and John Hart develop 3D printer with nut-feed extusion and laser heating that's 10x faster than comparable 3D printers.

FireHOL and FireQOS offer simple and powerful configuration
for all Linux firewall and traffic shaping requirements

The renowned physicist Leonard Susskind has identified a possible quantum origin for the ever-growing volume of black holes.

The creators revisit their hit game 25 years later.

This is an experiment in bootstrapping some sort of programming language/environment from a clean MS-DOS install. - mniip/BOOTSTRA

Wolf packs take their territory very seriously. That point is illustrated in incredible, colorful, squiggly detail via a new data map from Voyageurs Wolf…

We Roam’s broken promises about a new life of remote work are an object lesson in the darker side of startup turnover.

We found our hard to diagnose Python memory leak problem in numpy and numba using C/C++.  It turned out that the numpy array resulting from the above operation was being passed to a numba generator compiled in "nopython" mode. This generator was not being…

An interview with the documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis

A senior former Google employee who quit over its controversial plans to launch a search engine in China painted a picture of a company whose upper echelons are obsessed with stopping leaks, to the exclusion of almost anything else.

America turned into a net oil exporter last week, breaking almost 75 years of continued dependence on foreign oil and marking a pivotal -- even if likely brief -- moment toward what U.S. President Donald Trump has branded as "energy independence."

Almost every smartphone uses a processor based on the ARM1 chip created in 1985. The Visual ARM1 simulator shows what happens inside the...