There have been 387 confirmed U.S. measles cases so far this year, more than 2018’s full-year total and the second-largest number since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. The rise alarms health experts.

In celebration of the Persian New Year, also known as Nowruz, the Library of Congress has digitized and made available online for the first time the Rare Persian-Language Manunoscript Collection, which sheds light on scientific, religious, philosophical and…

Google said on Tuesday it will require its contracted and temporary workforce to receive full benefits, including comprehensive health care, paid parental leave and a $15 minimum wage, according to

In order to increase productivity of data scientists and research scientists at Lyft, we developed a data discovery application built on…

Pai plans budget cap on program designed to make broadband available to everyone.

Federal authorities have arrested a 32-year-old Chinese woman who allegedly made false statements when she sought to enter Mar-a-Lago over the weekend.

Avoid input parameters so state machines transitions are decoupled from transition effects.

Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we work (Venture Beat), turning all of us into

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Mark Zuckerberg admitted recently that Facebook doesn’t have a ‘strong reputation’ for privacy. An odd new request for private data probably won’t help with that rep.

How low can you go? When the world's deepest pool opens in Poland later this year, complete with underwater caves and overhangs, you'll be able to go as low as 45 meters (148 feet).

In just a decade, Andreessen Horowitz has backed a bevy of startup blockbusters— Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Slack—and made just as many Silicon Valley enemies. To stay ahead, it’s taking the unusual step of renouncing its venture capital status—and making…

IT billionaire Azim Premji's recent pledge of $7.5bn has put Indian philanthropy in the spotlight.

Cryptography code could be understandable if only we commented it. This Poly1305 implementation is an attempt to prove it.

It should be readable with just an idea of what MACs are for, a beginner level of Go, and high school math.

Every programming language has some fundamental idea(s) that drives its design and evolution. For Haskell that’s functional purity and state-of-the-art static typing, for Erlang that’s distributed programming and fault tolerance, for Clojure that’s simplicity…

Wolfram's Director of Technical Communication & Strategy, Jon McLoone, shares his thoughts on why it would not have been possible to create the Wolfram technology stack using a free and open-source model.

As Boeing designed an automated safety system for the 737 MAX, the company built it to potentially activate based on the reading of a single sensor. That decision has baffled even those who worked on the plane inside a company...

What does a crown emoji really mean?