I went to Synchrony, one of the US's last active demoparties, where programmers showcase artistic audiovisual works made in marathon coding sessions.

Success stories like these rarely break through the news cycle.

A dramatic escalation in the US war on Chinese tech firms

Every night, several times a night, Uber and Lyft drivers at Reagan National Airport simultaneously turn off their ride share apps for a minute or two to trick the app into thinking there are no drivers available---creating a price surge. When the fare goes…

Decades of early research on the genetics of depression were built on nonexistent foundations. How did that happen?

Recently I've been studying the semantics of WebAssembly (wasm). If you've never heard of WebAssembly, it's a new web programming language that's planned to be a low-level analogue to JavaScript that's supported by multiple browsers. Wasm could be used as...

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The Wikileaks founder is facing extradition requests from Sweden and the US over separate accusations.

Walter Gropius founded the German design school a century ago, but his work, now antique, still feels ahead of its time.

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Worms are wriggling into Earth’s northernmost forests, creating major unknowns for climate-change models.

Researchers Xavier de Carné de Carnavalet and Mohammad Mannan analyzed a well-known player in the adware business known as Wajam.

“The Pacific was victimized in the past as we all know,” the U.N. secretary general reminded a group in Fiji last week.

European businesses in China say forced technology transfers to local firms have become more common over the past two years as foreign firms battle for access in the world’s second-largest economy.

It’s a year since Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force and leaky adtech is now facing privacy complaints in four more European Union markets. This ups the tally to seven markets where data protection authorities have been urged…

I’m delighted to announce that Geoff Ralston is taking over for me as President of YC.