The international standard measurement of the kilogram is being officially changed on May 20, for the first time making all standard units defined in terms of basic physical principles instead of particular human-made objects. MIT professor and Nobel laureate…

In the previous post, I described a simple way to think about matrices, namely as bipartite graphs. Today I'd like to share a different way to picture matrices—one which is used not only in mathematics, but also in physics and machine learning. Here's the…

Streaming services have revolutionized the discovery of songs, but here’s why Ben Sisario, who covers the music industry, still likes to listen to compact discs.

France will ban electric scooters from pavements in September, the transport minister said, in a backlash against a surge of the commuter gizmos invading pedestrian areas.

Hers was the feline face that launched a thousand memes, but Grumpy Cat is no more.

FYI, as cloud provider we rawly loss around 25% of CPU performances the lasts 18 months due to different CVE and issues on CPU and mitigation limiting capacity using microcode, so we stuff more CPUs, but prices didn't go down at all... That's a kind of upselling.…

Genomics a programmers introduction. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

“When a creative artist is fatigued it is often from too much inflow, not too much outflow” — Julia Cameron

Astronomers are puzzling over a paucity of planets in the galaxy measuring between 1.5 and two times Earth's size.

This essay is designed to help new law students prepare for the first few weeks of class. It explains what judicial opinions are, how they are structured, and w

Doctors say the surgery could be the difference between some children learning to walk or not.

Tracking the latest developments in interactive rendering techniques

Learn about the release of the new Minecraft Earth Game. Play an all-new augmented reality mobile game that is Minecraft like you've never experienced before.

Law enforcement agencies are using facial recognition systems with little to no rules, found a new study by the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology.

Airlines have increasingly settled on a boarding order driven by social stratification.