Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. What factors may explain this?

As a devastating disease afflicts the country’s swine, companies are scrambling to roll out facial and voice recognition and other unproven ways to save them.

Born nearly two thousand years before Darwin and Freud, Epictetus seems to have anticipated a way out of their prisons.

I'm reading through the extensive denoscription on which data is acquired by Microsoft's telemetry 1 including the following paragraph:
User generated files -- files that are indicated as a potent...

People accused of social offences blocked from booking flights and train journeys

We reflect on four years of accepting Bitcoin and Dash as small Locksmith business based in Shoreham-by-Sea, U.K.

Jim Cramer talks with Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy about how its cloud service is helping companies to "innovate much quicker."

Today we have a special guest post. There have been a few guest posts here at AVC. Maybe a half dozen in total. One of my favorites was this one by JLM during the financial crisis of 2008/2009. But this one today may top that gem. It's from our favorite Giant…

One time I had a “great” idea for a telephone company. Service would be free—all the calls you want! But you’d have to listen to advertisements before each one. I asked my friend what he thought the idea was worth. His answer: “I don’t know. Telephone companies…

Where the hard edge of physics meets the vulnerable metaphysics of the human heart.

The tiny, Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has a unique national aspiration that sets it apart from its neighbors, China and India.

stolen aircraft incident at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport