Earnings at Saudi Arabia’s giant oil company, at $111 billion last year, far outstripped the profits of giant tech companies or rival oil producers.

In a Q&A with WIRED, the presidential hopeful talks about geoengineering the planet, the trickiness of defining a robot, and UBI for all.

One of the best uses of lidar technology is for mapping. With lidar, you get a 3D model of everything around you. All it takes to make a 3D map of the world is to line up lidar scans taken at different places. The process of lining them up, however, is not…

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

Sound and its reception are crucial for reproduction, survival, and population maintenance of many animals. In insects, low-frequency vibrations facilitate sexual interactions, whereas noise disrupts the perception of signals from conspecifics and hosts.…

The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer, and cheaper. Ten years and $36 billion later, the system is an unholy mess: Inside a digital revolution gone wrong. A joint investigation…

When it comes to workplace organizing, there's no such thing as a “privileged” worker. You’re either with your coworkers or you’re against them.

Civil Rights, Criminal Justice and Homeland Security

Apple keep insisting that only a “small number of customers have problems” with the MacBook keyboards. That’s bollocks. This is a huge issue, it’s getting worse not better, …

The H-1B program allows employers in the United States

It's not common for a rewrite to be something that warrants an article, but, this is one of the exceptions. Over the past few years, parts of Dolphin's video core have seen renovations to make way for new features, but a fundamental problem remained. Dolphin's…

Posted by Ian Beer, Google Project Zero TL;DR A locking bug in the XNU virtual memory subsystem allowed violation of the preconditions ...

Forth has been called lots of things and it was something that I figured we could easily unikernelize so I dove into it. I think it's safe to say I've never written any production Forth nor do I see myself doing so but having said that - let's begin!<

Honestly, who's got the time?

This morning, I spoke with a good friend who lives in France. He started a business with his wife to develop a web-based…

Source code: https://github.com/Adam13531/keyiano I coded everything as quickly/hackily as possible. 😢

If you want to see this in action, I streamed myself doing typing tests for about 3½ hours here: https://youtu.be/aL-RxFCNwi4 (video was streamed live…