Noncompetes scare workers into inaction – not looking for a higher wage as well as turning down better job opportunities at competitors and not asking their boss for a counter offer when they are offered a higher wage.

He led a life that was strange yet inspiring. A young Terry Davis graduated from Arizona State University 26 years

Newly unsealed court documents show that Facebook was aware that underage children routinely used their parents’ payment information to spend large sums of money on in-game purchases, and the company chose not to fix the problem. For years, it allowed for…

Instead of a year, parents will get six months, a number that researchers say avoids the pitfalls of longer leaves.

Your life choices aren’t just about what you want to do; they’re about who you want to be.

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Back in November, we took a trip to Cambridge University with Francesco Cesarini to arrange a panel discussion revolving around concurrency. For the panel, we enlisted the help from the best; Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt! All pioneers in…

How one government policy makes it near impossible for Indigenous people to travel through their own community

Ride-hailing services drive down bus and rail ridership in urban markets, a new University of Kentucky paper claims.

Close relationships are a kind of collective subjectivity. Social media is a crude separation

Low-end devices bound for developing countries, such as those running the Android Go edition, [...]

House Commerce committee says it has inside knowledge of dodgy regulator antics

A UCLA study says that bullet trains between Tokyo and Osaka helped reduce housing prices. Would that work for San Francisco and Los Angeles?

Mark Zuckerberg’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today (paywalled, but summarized here) relies on all-too-familiar refrains to explain the dubious principles and so-called “facts” behind Facebook’s

The devices have become our constant companions. This was not the plan.

CockroachDB's consistency model fits somewhere between serializability and linerarizability. We're proposing a new marketing phrase for CRDB's guarantees: no stale reads.

Challenges come up all the time at work. Spend time now thinking about how you want to be seen at work, and then think about how that version of you would respond to the challenges that you could encounter. When you have a plan in place, you are much more…