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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The discovery of technetium.

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)

This is a story about how I lost my data when trying to prevent it by backing it up.

Sometimes when confronted with strange new ideas, people will exclaim, “you must be on drugs!”

It cost $79.25.

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Along the way, he contributed to America's painkiller epidemic and got involved with North Korean methamphetamine manufacturing, Somali pirates, and murder-for-hire.

A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males.

Facebook wouldn't refund large purchases made by underage gamers.

The computer scientist on his new book "Digital Minimalism," why workplaces may go email-free, and why the tech backlash is about to go mainstream.