Depending on how paranoid you are, this research from Stanford and Google will be either terrifying or fascinating. A machine learning agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be cheating by hiding information it would…

In 1900, David Hilbert published a list of 23 problems that he proposed would be the important ones for mathematicians to solve in the upcoming century. That list led to a focused effort that laste…

This is a list of the best libraries and packages that changed our lives this year, compiled from my weekly digests

Does our contemporary obsession with sleep obscure what makes it special in the first place?

Five years after filing for bankruptcy protection, Detroit has achieved a financial feat few experts predicted. But some worry the growth is leaving long-time Detroit residents behind.

Some doctors warn that Facebook is becoming an arbiter of users’ mental distress without proving that its efforts are accurate, effective or safe.

A fifth of Earth’s geologic history might have vanished because planet-wide glaciers buried the evidence.

Each designed by an international architect.

Merlin is a cross-platform post-exploitation HTTP/2 Command & Control server and agent written in golang. - Ne0nd0g/merlin

BBEdit and other popular indy Mac apps have been around for over 25 years. Here are insights from over a century of development of Mac apps from four long-term developers.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past the most distant object ever visited.

Behind the recent wave of 80s revivals are real questions about the types of stories we enjoy—and how they teach us to approach the world

Tame Complexity through Community Involvement Tools Edit: I’d just like to say that I think 2018 has been a great year for rust. Rereading this, I realize may have come off as a little negative. End edit. Rust has a “big” problem. Our feedback loops have…

Firefox 64.0 has been spotted serving a hotel booking ad in the snippet section of its New Tab page. That section is traditionally used to provide updates from Mozilla concerning its services.

At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters – and broke a space exploration record.…