Eddie Lampert's $4.4 billion offer was Sears' only shot at staying alive and preserving 55,000 jobs. ESL plans to contest Sears' decision.

We present an innovative technique to detect ads in radio streams and podcasts, featuring machine learning and Shazam-like detection. It works pretty well!

Maze solving algorithm implemented in sed

A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus;…

Last year, Mozilla set out to build a best-in-class browser that was made specifically for immersive browsing. The result was Firefox Reality, a browser designed from the ground up to ...

Every year I take a step back and ask if there are common themes in technology. Sometimes this creates a very backwards looking view, as the most obvious signals are in companies that have been working well for a few years and the trend is really over. Other…

University researchers push the limits of Google’s experimental radar hardware

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As an antidote to our tech-obsessed society, slow-morning practitioners wake up early to meditate, read, exercise or do nothing at all.

There are hundreds of books about picking the best college. But let's face it: Most of them are written for high schoolers. A new book offers a roadmap for older students.

Income Sharing Agreements are gaining the attention of higher education and Wall Street. One early success story is getting a boost from venture capital.

The decision to restrict traffic at the busiest airport in Europe came not long after nearby Gatwick was closed for parts of three days because of drone sightings.

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Nature - Evidence of a limitation in certain machine-learning algorithms.

Official statistics say we are winning the War on Cancer. Cancer incidence rates, mortality rates, and five-year-survival rates have generally been moving in the right direction over the past few d…