Something we all see and hear a lot about at this time of year are Black Friday (23 November this year) and Cyber Monday (26 November) - but just how important are these days on the Internet?

Energy giants and conservative groups have been aggressively pushing Trump’s rollback of fuel efficiency rules for automobiles, a Times investigation found.

The well-known stablecoin project Basis is shutting down operations and returning what is left of the funds they raised in an earlier initial coin offering (ICO) to investors, The Block reported citing undisclosed sources with “direct knowledge of the situation.”

Tablets from some of the world’s oldest civilisations hold rich details about life thousands of years ago, but few people today can read them. New technology is helping to unlock them.

Robinhood is undercutting the big banks by forgoing brick-and-mortar branches with its new zero-fee checking and savings account features. With no overdraft or monthly fees, a juicy 3 percent interest rate and a claim of more U.S. ATMs than the five biggest…

Over the last few years, I've seen more and more blogs move over completely or partially to Medium. And while a few years ago that might…

Recently, a patent application from Amazon became public that would pair face surveillance — like Rekognition, the product that the company is aggressively marketing to police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — with Ring, a doorbell camera company…

Nobody would for one minute mistake a car or an airplane from 1955 for one from today. Everything, from technology to style is just too diff...

The Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine (BOOM) is an open source RV64G RISC-V core written in the Chisel hardware construction language, and mainly ASIC

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The housing market in San Francisco is so expensive that it's commonly referred to as being in a crisis.
Restaurant workers are fleeing the city's unmanageable costs, The Guardian reported, and it's changing the way the industry…

Microsoft baffles Windows 10 users by apparently collecting data about recently opened websites and apps when users have opted against sharing that information.

By Michael Nielsen, December 2018

Banned from a meeting because of #GDPR. The Romanian Ministry of Education won't allow me to attend a meeting in which it might discuss the possibility to exempt high-ranking politicians' PhD theses from being checked for plagiarism. #journalism

People's names and addresses were listed on the FCC's website beside net neutrality comments they didn't make. Now the FBI is interested.

The latest test flight by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic makes it to the edge of space and back.

One of those awesome 90ies computer stories...

How do you test shell commands? Recently, I came across several cases where I wanted to run shell commands for testing, but couldn’t find…

The national housing slowdown is spreading to markets like Las Vegas and Phoenix, where only weeks ago prices were still accelerating.