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OpenTable is barring restaurants from sharing data with rival booking services without its permission, intensifying a fight for control of the information diners disclose when they make reservations online.

We often think of computers as a very modern phenomenon, but there were actually plenty of computers around 50 years ago. They just weren't an everyman commodity, instead limited to goverment and corporate use. And they certainly weren't small.

Italy now requires children to prove they have been vaccinated before attending school.

We recently did an early family Christmas, before the rest of our relatives come to town. We usually go around in a circle, taking turns picking out a present to give to someone, with most of the presents going to the kids. Even though this was mostly for…

Companies have slashed prices and thrown in freebies to attract users - but is this sustainable?

Robert P. Crease harks back to the shapers of our scientific infrastructure and what they can tell us about how to handle the threat we now face.

A new report out today published by the UN Environment Assembly says a damaging rise in Arctic temperatures is now likely inevitable, regardless of whether or not comments made in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change are met.

Simple noscript to analyse your PostgreSQL database configuration, and give tuning advice - jfcoz/postgresqltuner

NVIDIA tested chieved speech-to-text inferencingachieving speech-to-text inferencing 3,524x faster than real-time processing using an NVIDIA Tesla V100.

The practice of HTTPS interception continues to be commonplace on the Internet. This blog post discusses types of monster-in-the-middle devices and software, and how to detect them.

No. And high schools shouldn’t treat it that way.

Plus: UK health service sites contain commercial trackers

Due a to a misconfigured server, a researcher found a constant stream of Elsevier users’ passwords.

Latent herpes virus reactivation has been demonstrated in astronauts during shuttle (10–16 days) and International Space Station (≥180 days) flights. Following reactivation, viruses are shed in the body fluids of astronauts. Typically, shedding of viral DNA…

Twilio's CEO talks about trusted communications, reputation, robocalling, and making it safe to pick up your phone again.