The Facebook Journalism Project announces an expanded effort around local news.

We're excited to announce that map and address-related searches on DuckDuckGo for mobile and desktop are now powered by Apple's MapKit JS framework.

Each week for the last 6 years (2012–2018), I was playing the lottery to win. Not just <em>hoping </em>to win — playing with a ‘positive expected value’ (a mathematical expectation to win rather than lose, on average, over time). In June 2018 this particular…

Desalination plants turn seawater into drinking water, but also pump hypersaline water back into the environment. That's especially troubling because desal has become extremely popular.

Andrei Alexandrescu’s Meeting C++ Keynote The Next Big Thing was just posted recently on YouTube. I am a big fan of Andrei on a number of levels - he is very much my idol. This last talk that he gave was about the limitations of if constexpr as compared to…

Many thought the internet would bring democracy to China. Instead it empowered rampant government oppression, and now the censors are turning their attention to the rest of the world.

Extend cloud computing, data and service seamlessly to edge devices. - baetyl/baetyl

Multi-factor authentication remains hard-to-use, hard-to-secure,
and error-prone. I've been studying authentication lately to see if it
mig...

PM appeals to opposition parties to find a way forward after her government survives a no-confidence vote.

The 230-vote margin was the largest in Parliament in recent British history and sends the country into uncharted waters.

Airbnb, which is expected to go public this year, announced today a number of milestones. For starters, Airbnb says it was profitable on an EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) basis for the second year in a row in 2018.…

President Trump signed into law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act (H.R. 4174, S. 2046), which includes the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act (Title II).