"I made a mistake, and the next day I received an email message: did you call 911?" André Kuipers explained.

We've long suspected that Fuchsia would be able to run Android apps. Now, we have full confirmation that Fuchsia will directly support the Android Runtime.

Thread for Junior Developers/Engineers: Bad news - the ability to be a master/elite coder is only the first step in your career 😞 You'll soon find that coding is the easy part. Some of the hard parts - if you want to progress as a software engineer/developer…

As I took the stand, I thought about how much press freedom had been lost and how drastically national security reporting had changed in the post-9/11 era.

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Yes, in a dose of Brexit inspired madness, BA’s sister airline Iberia has made a surprising revelation: it is not actually a subsidiary of a major international aviation group.  It is, in fac…

Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block ten years ago today

Texas is one of the only places—potentially in the world—where the combined natural...

Google's top AI researcher, Geoff Hinton, discusses a controversial Pentagon contract, a shortage of radical ideas, and fears of an "AI winter."

It's 2019 and Python 2 is slowly trickling out of the PyData stack... e.g. matplotlib v3.0 & ipython v6.0 dropped Py2 support already, and the current release of SciPy (v1.3) and next release of numpy (1.16) will be the last to support Python 2. More at …

A new report finds gaming is now more lucrative in the UK than video and music combined.

We keep getting older, the games stay the same (and science backs that up).

The closing of the subway tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn would have been one of the largest disruptions New York City had faced in recent years.

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In 1952, well before developmental biologists spoke in terms of Hoxgenes and trannoscription factors, or even understood DNA’s structure,…

The same codes needed to thwart errors in quantum computers may also give the fabric of space-time its intrinsic robustness.