A report from Motherboard on major U.S. wireless carriers revealed the shadowy business of collecting and reselling phone location data.

ANN ARBOR—A new electronic device developed at the University of Michigan can directly model the behaviors of a synapse, which is a connection between two neurons.

For the first time, the way that neurons share or compete for resources can be explored…

Bungie, creator of the popular Halo and Destiny franchises, is splitting from publisher Activision and will go its own way, the company announced today. It's almost certainly good news for gamers and the company itself, but it also won't fix the problems…

Here’s a mystery: How did a nonexistent paper rack up hundreds of citations? Pieter Kroonenberg, an emeritus professor of statistics at Leiden University in The Netherlands, was puzzled when he tri…

Completely Open Source. Based on Freescale i.MX6 CPU. Arduino & Raspberry Pi like headers. All documents are free for download, including Schematic and PCB.

New rule narrows landmark 2014 Supreme Court decision limiting software patents.

Docker based portable Workstation. Contribute to mikadosoftware/workstation development by creating an account on GitHub.

Is the American Dream over? Our visualization breaks down the obscene levels of income inequality between the disappearing middle class and everyone else.

You will never know as much as your lawyers do about the legal services they provide to you. It is a classic asymmetry of information, where the party that knows less gets the worse deal. In this case, that is you, the startup founder.

Improbable is taking a daring step after announcing earlier today that Unity had revoked its license to operate on the popular game development engine. The U.K.-based cloud gaming startup has inked a late-night press release with Unity rival Epic Games, which…

Fourier transforms are a tool used in a whole bunch of different things. This is a explanation of what a Fourier transform does, and some different ways it can be useful.

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neural networks using geometric approaches. We show that a topological covering
can be used to define a class of...

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France's interior minister says protesters have rendered more than half of speed cameras useless.

You can now set your status on GitHub! Use your status to share specific information with only your organization, or share a status with all of GitHub! Optionally, you can indicate that you’re busy so your collaborators can determine whether to mention someone…