You can ask "How tall is the tower in Paris?" and it knows what you're talking about.

It is working on a solution to deleting data when users request and is planning a bug fix for its Echo Dot Kids Edition.

Called it. @Mailchimp is going to start charging customers for unsubscribed users under a twisted justification that they're still part of your "audience": This how bad, big corporate ideas destroy a business.

It's not quite the number of seconds since 1 January 1970.

Posted by Christiaan Brand, Product Manager, Google Cloud We’ve become aware of an issue that affects the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) vers...

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Speed limits have little effect on how fast people choose to drive, which means more than half of drivers are breaking the law at all times.

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The American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd. (ARIN) has won a legal case against an elaborate multi-year scheme to defraud the Internet community of approximately 735,000 IPv4 addresses, the organization has revealed. While the specifics of the findings…

In my post Really fast bitset decoding for “average” densities, I reported on our work accelerating the decoding of bitsets. E.g., given a 64-bit register, you want to find the location of every 1-bit. So given 0b110011, you would want to get 0, 1, 4, 5.…

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“I came to the counterintuitive conclusion that engaging in risk is actually very important in preventing injuries,” a researcher says.

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A federal district court in San Francisco has ruled strongly in favor of our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records of how and when the FBI lifts gag orders issued with National Security

Twitter’s leadership knows that it’s fundamentally broken, and its latest attempt to fix itself shows how daunting of a task that will be.

The administration also announced that it had placed the company on a list of firms prevented from buying American parts and technologies without seeking approval.

Researchers create altered synthetic genome, in move with potential medical benefits