This paper finds evidence that opioid availability decreases labor force participation while a large labor market shock does not influence the share of opioid abusers. We first identify the effect of availability on participation using the geographic variation…

As an experienced cyber first responder, Julian Gutmanis had been called plenty of times before to help companies deal with the fallout from cyberattacks. But when the Australian security consultant was summoned to a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia in…

Voice recognition is a standard part of the smartphone package these days, and a corresponding part is the delay while you wait for Siri, Alexa, or Google to return your query, either correctly interpreted or horribly mangled. Google's latest speech recognition…

Calculations and simulations confirm that on average, Mercury is the nearest planet to Earth—and to every other planet in the solar system.

Our mission is to make great education available to everyone, no matter your financial capabilities. Now, Lambda's new Living Stipend pilot program makes starting a new career in tech even more accessible.

We explore the notion of general-purpose sensing, wherein a single, highly capable sensor can indirectly monitor a large context, without direct instrumentation of objects. Further, through what we call Synthetic Sensors, we can virtualize raw sensor data…

A new college admissions scandal is just the latest proof of a grossly uneven playing field.

<a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/" target="_blank">Rust</a> is a modern systems-level <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/programming" target="_blank">programming</a> <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/language" target="_blank">language </a>designed…

A curated a list of indigenous datasets that are available for aiding with research and development in various AI-based applications developed by educational and research organisations from across India for a variety of applications including biometrics and…

Certificates with 63-bit serial numbers touch off mass revocation blitz.

My story of replacing three servers, across two countries, running two operating systems with a single server running Alpine Linux and Docker.

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A pair of mathematicians has built on an obscure, 30-year-old mathematical theory to show that soap-filmlike minimal surfaces appear abundantly in a wide range of shapes.

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Even when it’s done legally, the process is a scam.

By dragging icons on a screen, supply-chain managers schedule factory work down to the second.