How the never-ending quest to quantify worker productivity can go terribly, terribly wrong.

Last week TechCrunch reported that Reddit was raising $150 million from Chinese tech giant Tencent and up to $150 million more in a Series D that would

A generation of the young with dead-end social and economic prospects, calling themselves “dirt spoons,” aimed to strike it rich. They’ve ended up with big losses.

The search for the night parrot is as old as the Dreaming and punctuated by larrikins, obsessives and bush-telegraph legends. Can a partnership between scientists and traditional custodians finally flush this creature from the spinifex?

Mars One, a Dutch company that planned to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars and start the first human colony on the Red Planet, has been declared bankrupt.

Convert and analyze archives of Stack Exchange network sites with utility available with Version 12 of the Wolfram Language. Detailed example using imported archive of MathOverflow.net.

Russia's internet contingency plan gets closer to reality.

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An Air New Zealand plane was turned around for diplomatic reasons, but it wasn't to do with NZ's relationship with China.

Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.

*Note: the discussion of historical poverty trends here is updated and developed more fully in the recent article, “ Capitalism and extreme poverty ”, published in World Development . Dear Steven, I’m writing to respond to a letter you posted regarding…

I could make this article very short with the smug answer: “Just ask for it.” But I know from real world experience that the more accurate answer is it’s both exactly that simple and, at the same t…

Craig Venter’s creation comes as CRISPR gene-editing methods provide alternative ways to tinker with life’s building blocks.

Uber AI developed Ludwig, a code-free deep learning toolbox, to make deep learning more accessible to non-experts and enable faster model iteration cycles.

Rust is a new systems programming language that prides itself on memory safety and speed. The gist of it is that if you write code in Rust…