Whenever I log on to Instagram, my heart drops a little. After years of living the lifestyle and covering the subject, fitness influencer behavior shouldn’t...

For decades, database systems have given their users multiple isolation levels to choose from, ranging from some flavor of “serializability” at the high end down to “read committed” or “read uncommitted” at the low end.

When a secretive private equity firm bought Remington, sales were strong and the future bright. A decade later, the company couldn’t escape its debts.

You’ve probably played with model trains, for instance with something like the Brio set shown below.1 And if you’ve built a layout with a model train set, yo...

An oral history of the subnoscription service that changed online shopping forever.

This report presents new evidence about the surveillance state in Xinjiang, where the government has subjected 13 million Turkic Muslims to heightened repression as part of its “Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism.” Between January 2018 and February…

Indigo is expanding to the United States with its new model for how a big bookstore chain can thrive in the era of online retail.

Nigerian teenager Hope Emmanuel Frank makes his creations using discarded materials.

Tumblr owner Verizon seeks buyer months after banning adult content.

Back when the members of the Spec Land Yacht Brain Trust were discussing our planned race series over fermented beverages, the topic of conversation veered into what we regarded as the Holy Grail of pointless-yet-awe-inspiring 1980s car accessories: the in…

Probability theory shows impressive results

What the world will be like when computational intelligence and computational contracts are ubiquitous. Trannoscript of a talk by Stephen Wolfram from a 2019 blockchain conference.

The story of the PDF, the file format that’s become one of the internet’s defining information tools. It’ll be with us after we’re long gone.

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.

Our emotions today are radically different from what 19th-century Americans felt. That’s partly due to technology.

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