Now hiring: workers at the world’s biggest iPhone factories.

Astronomers claim in a new paper that star motions should make it easy for civilizations to spread across the galaxy, but still we might find ourselves alone.

Old coders never die, they just become middle managers.

Here’s something I find puzzling: why isn’t CPU time more valuable? I first thought about this when I was working for MD Anderson Cancer Center, maybe around 2002. Our research in adaptive clinical trial methods required bursts of CPU time. We might need…

“Variety doesn’t really matter to me. I would be perfectly happy to eat the same Caesar salad or peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich every day.”

Investing mavens who think of the big ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft as the next big opportunities to get in on the ground floor of a fabulously profitable stock must have been downcast by Lyft’s financial report in advance of its pending initial public…

GOOD ENOUGH TO RECOGNIZE MUSIC VIA SHAZAM IF YOU TURN IT UP TO 11

In 2009, the U.S. unemployment rate exceeded Europe’s for the first time in decades.  Apologists for European labor market regulation rejoiced, so I publicly bet that European unemployment would exceed U.S. unemployment over the next decade.  The original…

Some New Yorkers believe cash-free businesses violate civil rights and want to join cities like Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington in banning them.

Tesla just shifted the goalposts for "full self-driving" technology.

The once-hyped social media company, known for gamifying mobile check-ins, is still alive and well as an incomprehensibly vast data empire.

We have a few changes about YC to share.

A new study finds that suburban neighborhoods outperform urban ones across the board.

I work at Red Hat on GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection, and I spent most of the past year making GCC easier to use. Let's look at C and C++ improvements that

At Swiss Public TV and Radio (SRF) we recently published an investigation of the "Collection #1-5" password leaks. In this post, I show how I searched through 900GB+ of data with Spark and R.

Animals are no less emotional than we are.