At a time when democracies and their basic values are increasingly under attack, the iconic American company has sometimes served clients in ways that directly counter American interests.

After a backlash around the marketing of its newest product, Robinhood Financial LLC has rebranded the service it had previously billed as Robinhood Checking & Savings.

Assessment units for the Wolfcamp Shale and Bone Spring Formation of the Delaware Basin.(Public domain.)

Java’s ability to run on many different kinds of computers grew out of much older software

Beating Aids is India’s greatest public health achievement. A new book says it wouldn’t have happened without women

Problems: Wicked, complex, intractable or adaptive … whatever we choose to call them, we seem to suck at solving them and we often get profoundly overwhelmed

A pair of apps preach relaxation to millions of customers—but still badly want to beat each other.

Steve Jobs tried to create a manufacturing culture in Silicon Valley. As one former Apple engineer put it, "It wasn't great for business."

One of my tasks (as GCC maintainer of the inter-procedural optimization framework) is to make sure that it works well with real world progra...

The company that was once America’s biggest and most admired, the maker of power turbines, the seller of insurance, the broadcaster of “Seinfeld,” has become a shadow of its former self. This is the story of how generations of managers, who thought they could…

Johnson & Johnson says its Baby Powder is safe. But Reuters found its talc was sometimes tainted with asbestos, a fact it kept from regulators and the public.

Experts in the field give a hard-headed assessment of just how hard the technology is

Archaeologists in Egypt unveil the tomb of a high priest, untouched for 4,400 years.

In downtown Providence, Rhode Island there is a large and prominent plot of land that sits on the bank of the Woonasquatucket River. In 1838, it was the home of the the Rhode Island State Prison. Later, the land housed the Continuing Education campus for…

There are five German exclaves in Belgium which are separated by a meters wide bicycle path from the rest of Germany. This is the story of the Vennbahn.