Twenty years ago, Yahoo rolled out a new national advertising campaign. Unfortunately, it didn’t reveal this plan to its star yodeler.

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It’s no secret that I’m into building toy compilers and programming languages. Today I’m introducing something that’s not a toy (I hope). Today, I’m introducing php-compiler (among many other projects

American companies continue to build surveillance tools that are used to violate human rights. Workers who refuse to comply deserve protections.

Power is the precursor to all modern technology. James Watt’s steam engine energized the factory, Edison and Tesla’s inventions powered street lamps, and now both fossil fuels and renewable resources power the trillions of transistors in computers and phones.

It isn’t exactly Y2K, but the country is scrambling to reconcile its systems with the ancient demands of an imperial calendar.

Once the very embodiment of Silicon Valley venture capital, the storied firm has suffered a two-decade losing streak. It missed the era’s hottest companies, took a disastrous detour into renewable energy, and failed to groom its next-generation leadership.…

Facebook has tapped a top State Department lawyer who was credited with helping to write the controversial 2001 Patriot Act as its new general counsel, beefing up its legal team as the company faces

Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way. - cadence-workflow/cadence

We’ve developed the Sparse Transformer, a deep neural network which sets new records at predicting what comes next in a sequence—whether text, images, or sound. It uses an algorithmic improvement of the attention mechanism to extract patterns from sequences…

Nils Nilsson passed away. He is best known for the invention of the A* algorithm for path finding, and for his leading role in the Shakey project at SRI, one of the first mobile robots with visual perception and trajectory planning.... https://t.co/tXlRzWXJUy

Microsoft is reversing course and will keep Paint as a part of the basic install of Windows 10.

Who could have guessed that Samsung’s Galaxy Fold would be such a fragile PR nightmare? The iFixit folks who take apart and investigate mobile devices for a…

Made by interviewers for candidates – we spent hundreds of hours talking to technical interviewers from FAANG

But the practical challenges of breeding and maintaining unconventional lab animals persist.

Greg and Teresa Almond lost their house after a financially devastating drug raid involving civil asset forfeiture.

Amazon's reports of low--or zero--profits have long raised suspicions that it's selling below cost to build a global monopoly.