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…

It's up to us to craft the shape of the future

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.

Facebook, the online social network, has more than 2 billion global users. Because those users do not pay for the service, its benefits are hard to measure. We report the results of a series of three non-hypothetical auction experiments where winners are…

ALOHA, Ore. – Deputies arrested a man who took an Amazon box with a GPS device hidden inside it off of a porch in Washington County. Perez Johnson, 29, of Portland, told deputies he delivers for Amazon and was dropping off another shipment at the house when…

Prometheus is one of the standard-bearing open-source solutions for monitoring and observability. From its humble origins at SoundCloud in 2012, Prometheus quickly garnered widespread adoption and…

A beloved Robert Frost poem is among the many creations that are (finally) losing their protections in 2019

Nutube, similar to a conventional vacuum tube, has an anode grid filament structure, and operates exactly as a triode vacuum tube. Also similar to a vacuum tube, it creates the same characteristic rich overtones. By applying their vacuum fluorescent display…

Recently this article has been making the rounds on slashdot and other tech sites. The TL;DR of the article is a Microsoft intern…