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Discover if magnets can replace springs in pogo sticks in our latest exploration of magnetic repulsion and mechanical innovation.

Imagine a business metric showing a sudden spike — is the spike real or is it a data quality problem? Analysts and Data Engineers today…

Haven't we reached Peak Minecraft? Not in my house.

Uber developed Michelangelo PyML to run identical copies of machine learning models locally in both real time experiments and large-scale offline prediction jobs.

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Colin Kroll, the cofounder of HQ Trivia and Vine, has died at the age of 34.

Shirley Wang's father, Lin, was on a business trip when he ran into NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley. It was the beginning of a friendship.

A U.S. bankruptcy court on Friday reportedly approved Sears’s request to pay as much as $25.3 million in bonuses to the company’s top executives and high-ranking employees, just months after the company filed for bankruptcy.

I recently purchased an original Macintosh User Manual (thanks eBay!). I had seen one at a garage sale, and was struck by how it had to explain a total paradigm shift in interacting with computers.…

We've known for some time that we're in the midst of Peak TV, but now FX has quantified that ongoing phenomenon. Its annual research report reveals that, for the first time ever, streaming shows now outnumber their traditional-TV counterparts. 495 noscripted…

All 16,000 buses in the fast-growing Chinese megacity are now electric, and soon all 22,000 taxis will be too

Since its inception in the 1950s, radiocarbon dating has proven indispensable to archaeologists and climate scientists, who rely on the technique to accurately date organic compounds. But a good thing just got better, owing to the discovery of two stalagmites…

We all know that classic aphorism: Year comes to an end, Rust blog post press send. This is mine.
There are lots of cool technical improvements to Rust that I want the project to achieve this year, …

What if we got the business model of the web wrong?

The economy is thriving, but many Americans say they aren’t seeing a difference in their paychecks.

There’s a lot you can make with a 3D printer: prosthetics, corneas, firearms — even an Olympic-standard luge.

While we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people’s biases and entrenched behaviors get in the way. In this article a Darden professor explains how design thinking helps people…

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