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Older adults did better on a memory test, but real-world benefits are unclear.

Udacity, the $1 billion online education startup, has laid off about 20 percent of its workforce and is restructuring its operations as the company’s co-founder Sebastian Thrun seeks to bring costs in line with revenue without curbing growth, TechCrunch has…

A new paper quantifies how quickly Southern planter elites recovered from the civil war

Picking strawberries takes speed, stamina, and skill. Can a robot do it?

Monotype launches the first redesign in 35 years of the world's most ubiquitous font, Helvetica.

What we'd like to find out about GANs that we don't know yet.

It was cheap beer — and that's how it was presented to consumers.

The received wisdom suggests that Unix’s unusual combination of fork() and exec() for process creation was an inspired design. In this paper, we argue that fork was a clever hack for machines and programs of the 1970s that has long outlived its usefulness…

Our visual perception system, with its 20+ billion neurons, is processing more information than all of our other senses combined Information Visualization: Perception for Design, Colin Ware . Its pattern-matching capabilities have evolved immensely over the…

How rich was the Dutch East India Company? This old Dutch company was the first ever to do business in a modern way — but not ethically.

For Karen Uhlenbeck, winner of the Abel Prize for math, a whimsical phenomenon offers a window onto higher dimensions.

Back in 1958 Hans Peter Luhn assumed in his paper "The Automatic Creation of Literature Abstracts" that "the frequency of word occurrence in an article furnishes a useful measurement of word significance" which is until now probably one of the most significant…

Meaning is not found, but made.