Facebook managed to beat Wall Street’s estimates in its Q4 earnings amidst a constant beatdown in the press. Facebook hit 2.32 billion monthly users, up 2.2 percent from 2.27 billion last quarter, speeding up its growth rate. Facebook climbed to 1.52 billion…

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New York’s top financial regulator is going to allow life insurers to use social media data when setting premium rates, though the insurers will have to prove the information doesn’t discriminate.

The Trump administration unveiled changes to how the coveted visas for high-skilled foreign workers are allocated starting in April, in a bid to boost the number awarded to people with advanced degrees from U.S. universities.

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It’s no secret that Google planned to pull life support from the consumer version of Google+, its failure of a social network, in April. Until now, though, we didn’t know the exact date. That date, Google announced today, is April 2. On that date, Google…

Planning on quitting the social platform? A major new study offers a glimpse of what unplugging might do for your life. (Spoiler: It’s not so bad.)

Japan is in the grip of an elderly crime wave. Poverty and loneliness are two of the possible causes.

Elon Musk has been right about a lot of things. That the web would enable new forms of payment (PayPal). That the rocket-launch...

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Finally, a dead-simple explanation of CS data structures (linked lists, hash maps, etc.). No CS degree necessary. No proofs, and no confusing academic jargon.

Rigetti Computing, one of the leading startups in the quantum computing space, today announced the public beta of its Quantum Cloud Services (QCS)

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