The more rapid and intense the brain reward they imparted, the likelier they were to foster pathological learning and craving, particularly among socially and genetically vulnerable consumers.

The company sought to completely change how we interact with computers, but now Leap Motion is selling itself off.

Join me as I test-drive the smallest ever Kubernetes distribution k3s. Find out how this runs on Raspberry Pi compared to kubeadm with Docker.

<p>This is a free, open source course on fitting, visualizing, understanding, and predicting from Generalized Additive Models. It's made possible by a long and fruitful collaboration in teaching this material with <a href='http://converged.yt/'>David Miller</a>…

Solder is the conductive metal glue that one uses to stick components together. If you get the component and the PCB hot enough, and melt a little solder in the joint, it will stay put and conduct …

The tech giant has figured out a way to get millions of its smart speakers into homes without consumers lifting a finger, as property managers bring in Alexa to manage tenants.

Older people are not allowed to remember; the younger generation aren't even allowed to know.

Modern wireless tech isn’t just for communications. It can also sense a person’s breathing and heart rate, even gauge emotions

Paul Goble             Staunton, June 1 – For the first time, a Moscow portal, Istoricheskaya pamyat , has published photocopies of th...

Most readers will be familiar with the work of the Dutch artist Theo Jansen, whose Strandbeest wind-powered mechanical walking sculptures prowl the beaches of the Netherlands. The Jansen linkage pr…

Health dept reports three more cases in people who visited Hawaii Island.

Science chats with the researcher behind a new attempt to record cats when they’re on their own

When U.S. newspapers cover school shootings, photos of perpetrators outnumber photos of individual victims by a ratio of 16 to 1, on average, a recent analysis shows.

By Christian Jarrett. This is the first systematic study of teenagers’ “self-images”.

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One hundred years ago today, on May 29, 1919, measurements of a solar eclipse offered verification for Einstein's theory of general relativity. Even before that, Einstein had developed the theory of special ...

A review of the Facebook accounts of thousands of officers around the US — the largest database of its kind — found officers endorsing violence against Muslims, women, and criminal defendants.