The United States is commonly thought of as a low-tax country. But workers effectively pay some of the highest taxes in the developed world — without getting a decent welfare state in return.

A former student of the influential philosopher defends him against filmmaker Errol Morris’s “character assassination”

Engineering, DevOps & Cloud Computing

How Heroku uses JSON Schema to test and document our Platform API–and how it helped us uncover an unexpected bug.

Investors are finally paying attention to climate change — though not in the way you might hope.

A arctic, north-bluish color palette

Many more firms are monitoring and analysing employee communications and behaviour. Does it work?

Even the best growth marketers fail to get content marketing to work. Many are unwittingly using tactics from 4 years ago that no longer work today.

Facial recognition technology was already seeping into everyday life — from photos on Facebook to police scans of mugshots — when Joy Buolamwini noticed a

In a study of healthy volunteers, National Institutes of Health researchers found that our brains may solidify the memories of new skills we just practiced a few seconds earlier by taking a short rest. The results highlight the critically important role rest…

Icons can be a useful way to represent ideas simply. Ben Cullimore, Interaction Designer in the team which redesigned the NHS website, explains how they decided on the most effective icons to use.

While embedded FPGAs are attractive platforms for DNN acceleration on edge-devices due to their low latency and high energy efficiency, the scarcity of resources of edge-scale FPGA devices also...

🧜‍♀️ RESTful rendering pipeline for generating sequence and UML diagrams using Mermaid for Markdown docs (Diagrams as a Service) - Schachte/Mermrender

This extraordinary view of the LMC might be the world's longest exposure image in amateur astronomy.
1060 hours were needed to capture this highly-resolved image (204 Megapixels) of the Large Magellanic Cloud.