Agriculture could pull carbon out of the air and into the soil — but it would mean a whole new way of thinking about how to tend the land.

A lot has changed about air travel since it went mainstream in the 1930s. On-board smoking, free-flowing booze, and five-star meals have given way to baggage fees, cramped seats, and mystery meat.

Through all this change, one thing has stayed the same —…

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Admit they are upping their use of mass snooping

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Originally planned to enter mass production in the second half of 2016, Intel’s 10 nm process technology is still barely used by the company today. Currently the process is used to produce just a handful of CPUs, ahead of an expected ramp to high-volume manufacturing…

Netflix insists sleep is its biggest competitor. But YouTube may actually be a greater threat in the battle for India‘s users.

Open Location Code is a library to generate short codes, called "plus codes", that can be used as digital addresses where street addresses don't exist. - google/open-location-code

Academic research publications rely on doctors to voluntarily disclose their payments from drug and health companies in a lax reporting system some say is broken.

Last week I wrote about the performance consequences of inadvertently loading gdi32.dll into processes that are created and destroyed at very high rates. This week I want to share some techniques f…

Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.

Last Friday, Marriott sent out millions of emails warning of a massive data breach — some 500 million guest reservations had been stolen from its Starwood database. One problem: the email sender’s domain didn’t look like it came from Marriott at all. Marriott…

Understanding patterns is a key concept in permaculture. But what are they? How can we 'see' them with systems thinking and how can we apply them? Michael Mehaffy, long time student and colleague of Christopher Alexander, explores this new frontier of design.

The decade-long road to recovering cash has been a striking success.