Learn about a handful of helpful search engines that are not Google, Bing, or any of the other really obvious ones

Free will, from a neuroscience perspective, can look like quite quaint. In a study published this week in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers in Australia were able to predict basic choices participants made 11 seconds before they consciously declared…

All 157 people on board Boeing 737 killed in plane crash en route to Nairobi, Ethiopian Airlines says.

GUIs are bloatware. I’ve said it before. However, rather than just complaining about IDEs I’d like to provide an understandable guide to a much better alternative: the terminal.

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blog, and personal revelations.

A win for Creative Commons licensing

Drones that bark like dogs are being used on farms as farmers increasingly look to drone technology to help them with their work.

Voters decided to legalize medical marijuana in the state last year

I’ve interviewed many data scientists in the last 10 years, and model explainability techniques are my favorite topic to distinguish the…

Critics say the search giant is squelching competition before it begins. Should the government step in?

I think it was in Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal that a con man mused that the easiest people to rip off were other con men, or at least those who aspired to be so, because all you had to do …

How a small group of activists (our correspondent among them) got leaf blowers banned in the nation’s capital

Why does Google prepend while(1); to their (private) JSON responses?

For example, here's a response while turning a calendar on and off in Google Calendar:

while (1);
[
['u', [
['smsSentFla...

The Indian linguist Pāṇini created the world's first generative grammar circa 500 BCE, a complete formal denoscription of the Sanskrit language.

This post is hard to write, both in the emotional sense but also in the “I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn’t have the time” sense. Hence, please assume the best of intentions when reading it—it is not my intention to make anyone feel bad about…

The Boeing 737 MAX is the latest mass-market jet, meant to easily transport passengers around the world. And that’s what it has been doing — safely — since its debut in 2017. However, Sunday’s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX is the second fatal incident…

Some people think old folks’ homes are lovely. Fine. If that appeals to you, you are welcome to move right in. Not me.

In this month's Estonian parliamentary elections, a whopping 44 percent of the ballot was cast using e-voting.

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer