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.

On-line technical seminar series at Carnegie Mellon University featuring leading DBMS developers and researchers.

By default almost all WiFi access points transmit at full power (100mW on 2.4GHz). This gives maximum coverage and users see a good signal ("full bars"). However, there are good reasons to turn down the transmit power to a fraction of the maximum.

Tesla Model 3 became the best-selling car in Switzerland last month – beating not just other electric vehicles, but all passenger vehicles period. Over the last few months, Model 3 has become the best-selling electric car in virtually all markets it has been…

Scientists from Heriot-Watt University have welded glass and metal together using an ultrafast laser system, in a breakthrough for the manufacturing industry.

On 10 April 2019 at 15:00 CEST (Brussels time) the European Commission presented a ground-breaking discovery by Event Horizon Telescope - an international scientific collaboration aiming to capture the first image of a black hole by creating a virtual Earth…

What is Privacy Pass?
Privacy Pass is a Chrome/Firefox browser extension to make browsing Cloudflare-protected websites a better experience for users. In particular, if a user IP address is designa...

Rainforest nations have opposed the creation of a new .amazon internet domain name. Why?

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. In doing so they may have removed one o…

Over the past few months, we’ve been experimenting with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), a protocol which uses encryption to protect DNS requests and responses, with the goal ...

Ars chats with tech journalist Clive Thompson about his new book, Coders.

Today I’m excited to share an early prototype of a strange chat experiment that I’ve been quietly obsessing over working on. I’m calling it handshake.
Handshake is designed to be an experiment in one-time key symmetric cryptography. The tool is based on off…

‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive problems that seem to resist solution.

The ‘5 whys’ technique…