Since the 2015 diesel scandal, Volkswagen has gone from wanting to rule the world to wanting to save it with electric vehicles. What hasn’t changed is the secondary role played by investor interests.

Killed by Google is the Google Graveyard. A full list of dead products killed by Google in the Google Cemetery.

So now there are 4 independent quasi-/experimental datapoints (me, Pandora, LinkedIn, & Mozilla resp) showing that a standard load of ads vs no ads decreases total consumption/activity by 10–15%. (Maybe I should call this "Gwern's law": 'ads cost you a tenth…

Demis Hassabis founded a company to build the world’s most powerful AI. Then Google bought him out. Hal Hodson asks who is in charge

Delivery robots will redefine the meaning of every object they transport

Similar ADS-B telemetry profiles between flights suggest, but don't confirm, same root cause.

Dodrio is a new virtual DOM library that is designed to leverage the strengths of both Wasm’s linear memory and Rust’s low-level control by making extensive use of fast bump ...

The online retailer’s move follows recent efforts by Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest to limit the availability of anti-vaccination and other pseudoscientific material.

The system will be fully open source and designed with newly developed secure hardware to make the system not only impervious to certain kinds of hacking, but also allow voters to verify that their votes were recorded accurately.

Ruby apps can use a lot of memory. But why? Various people in the community attribute it to memory fragmentation, and provide two “hacky” solutions. Dissatisfied by the current explanations and provided solutions, I set out on a journey to discover the deeper…

Regulators in Washington should immediately launch an investigation into Amazon’s e-commerce business.       In a recent article (and subsequent blog post), I argued that Amazon’s negative cash flow might result from the company’s decision to devote its revenue…

There’s a glob of stringy, black rubber spilling out of the street at the corner of Speed and Fernwood in Louisville’s Highlands neighborhood. A block away on Rosedale, the same spongy substance that covers most of Google Fiber’s buried lines in the city…

Today Mark Zuckerberg shared the following post with employees.

The United States and India have agreed to strengthen security and civil nuclear cooperation, including building six US nuclear power plants in India, according to a joint statement.

Tumblr has lost 30 percent of web traffic since December.

Software and hardware projects for fun from a guy who loves retro computing

Scientific Reports - Signs of biological activities of 28,000-year-old mammoth nuclei in mouse oocytes visualized by live-cell imaging