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Gmail's end-to-end encryption project seemed dead in 2017. Now it's back, but only for key account customers.

Investors in collateralized loan obligations are ignoring the signs of danger.

A new study published in The Lancet has found how cannabis use affects the incidence of psychosis.

The search engine has been fined for blocking rival online search advertisers.

This is part two in my series of articles about bytecode interpreters, based on a small stack virtual machine which I have nicknamed PM…

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Why is ‘Asperger’s syndrome’ such a part of our lexicon? Why did its use take off in the mid-1990s? Edith Sheffer is clear: autism in its severe forms is about underlying biology; but what we now call Asperger’s syndrome is a cultural artefact.

Shards of decayed wood are all that remain of the roof that once shielded the wooden water tank at 137 Centre St. On a recent morning, raindrops fell through the splintered support beams, rippling

Douglas Self, clock, Pneumatic

A list of datasets and annotation tools for machine learning from across the web.

When 8th grader Sonia Bokhari joined social media for the first time, she discovered that her mom and sister had been posting about her for her entire life.

Ben Sixsmith reviews a collection from the late British underground theorist Mark Fisher.

Airbnb, the nation's second-most-valuable startup, is battling cities from Boston to San Diego over collecting taxes and enforcing zoning rules.