To understand where cryptocurrencies are going, it helps to look beneath the price gyrations to see how people are actually using the technology. The data provides reason for both hope and concern.

This spring, an 80-year-old Japanese chalk company went out of business. Nobody, perhaps, was as sad to see the company go as mathematicians who had become obsessed with Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, the so-called “Rolls Royce of chalk.”

Even the victim says the sentence was too harsh.

A powerful document manager for Mac, Windows, and Linux for managing web content, books, and notes and supports tagging, annotation, highlighting and keeps track of your reading progress.

Over breakfast at your hotel you read an article berating banks about the fraudulent credit card transactions they let through. You proceed to check out and bang! Your credit card is rejected because (as you find out later) the bank thought [1] it couldn’t…

When put under pressure, plastic crystals of neopentylglycol yield huge cooling effects – enough that they are competitive with conventional coolants. In addition, the material is inexpensive, widely

The material can easily be separated from additives to produce pristine recycled plastic

Vidalia Onions to be exact. They’re classified as a sweet onion, and because of their mild flavor (they don’t make your eyes tear up), some folks can eat them like an apple. Most of my customers do. During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer…

Masayoshi Son made a huge personal bet on bitcoin just as prices peaked, losing more than $130 million when he sold out.

In the second of a two-part series: How a few private companies that have little oversight and keep information secret run US elections

In the race for jobs, the capacity for leisure can give humans a surprising edge.

In my years in tech and leadership, one thing I have learned about myself is that I hate telling people what to do. That might sound weird coming from a manager, but it's true! The most important part of my job is to hire an amazing team and help them

Physically marking a tire without a warrant is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled. The amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Many young people participate in the rental economy. They own less stuff than their parents' generation, and they rent or share a lot more. For some it's a choice; for others, a necessity.

A recent report found that 259 people died between 2011 and 2017 while stepping in front of the camera in often dangerous destinations. Our writer went deep on the psychology of selfies to figure out what's behind our obsession with capturing extreme risk…

Our founder Francesco Cesarini remembers the early days working with Joe Armstrong, co-creator of Erlang.

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High-powered REPL for Haskell, inspired by IPython - litxio/ptghci