Expert independent review concludes that e-cigarettes have potential to help smokers quit.

Why did you sting me? You'll drown too

Due to an internal error, Amazon recently sent 1,700 Alexa voice files to an unauthorized customer. German computer magazine c't details what happened.

In a study of people interacting with systems using machine-learning algorithms for recommendations and personalization, users had weak mental models and difficulties making the UI do what they want.

The next version of Java SE, JDK 12, has reached the first ramp-down point where the feature set if frozen. Amongst other things JDK 12 provides a preview of an enhanced Switch statement, adds a number of improvements to the G1 garbage collector, and introduces…

The Empire never ended.

Thieves sell hijacked accounts with in-demand skins online after locking out original owners.

Jupyter notebooks generate files that may contain metadata, source code, formatted text, and rich media. Unfortunately, this makes these files poor candidates for conventional version control solutions, which works best with plain text.

The thought of falling off a cruise ship is horrifying—but are these incidents inevitable? Or preventable?

Scientists around the world are editing the genes of livestock to create meatier pigs, cashmere goats with longer hair and cold-weather cows that can thrive in the tropics. But amid some successes, disturbing outcomes are surfacing.

If your boss is a jerk, there might be a scientific reason for it. A new study suggests feeling powerful dampens the part of the brain that helps us connect with others.

A strange journey to the glitter factory.

How Flutter uses Widgets, Elements and RenderObjects to create delicious eye-candy at 120fps.

The engineers at Epic Systems work on a campus full of childish whimsy but also sit in on open-heart surgery. Is this the indulgence of an oddball founder, or a better way to run an I.T. company?

As you may have heard by now, Ranges got merged and will be part of C++20. This is huge news and represents probably the biggest shift the Standard Library has seen since it was first standardized …

Tomorrow, two high-speed rail lines open in France, providing new corridors for trains to slice through the countryside at 200 mph (320 km/h). One is a 302-kilometer link that will connect Paris to…