Ma says blaming China for any economic issues is misguided, and the US should blame itself.

In recent years, DER SPIEGEL published just under 60 articles by reporter and editor Claas Relotius. He has now admitted that, in several instances, he either invented stories or distorted facts.

Learn how much youth in the United States use e-cigarettes.

In April the Guardian switched off the Mongo DB cluster used to store our content after completing a migration to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS. This post covers why and how

Banning the shackling of pregnant prisoners is among the far-reaching bill's provisions.

The number of companies valued at $1 billion or more at the time of their initial public offerings is expected to rise next year.

The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products that critics decry as an environmental catastrophe.

You’ve heard of comma-separated values (CSV)? Well, a comma-separated tree (CST) is similar, with indentation to determine the hierarchy. This gives you a hierarchical data format with the convenience and readability of CSV! For some real-world examples,…

Astronomers suspect that there’s a large planet hiding out in the distant fringes of the solar system. At a recent workshop, they brainstormed ways to coax it

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton and DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis talk about the challenges facing AI researchers today -- and those that lie ahead.

Now you can request an archive of your data from your account settings page.

We're facing questions about whether Facebook gave large tech companies access to people's information and, if so, why we did this.

A $5,571 bill to sit in a waiting room, $238 eyedrops, and a $60 ibuprofen tell the story of how emergency room visits are squeezing patients.

The Microsoft Devices Team is excited to announce Project Mu, the open-source release of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) core leveraged by Microsoft products including both Surface and the latest releases of Hyper-V. UEFI is system software…

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Zstandard, our open source data compression solution, improved compression at scale. How to implement new advanced capabilities for similar benefits.

Facebook Reality Labs has built DeepFocus, a new AI-powered framework for rendering natural, realistic focus effects in real time. We're now open-sourcing our networks and data set.