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Reports suggest that the latest casualty in the ever-expanding trade war between China and the United States could be Microsoft Windows as the Chinese prepare to drop the operating system like a hot brick...

Starting with macOS Catalina, your Mac uses zsh as the default login shell and interactive shell. You can make zsh the default in earlier versions of macOS as well.

How do you take on a market where the user isn’t your customer? A market that overlaps and competes with four major industries, but doesn’t belong to any of them? These are questions I …

A group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has clarified a 2018 mystery in the field of extragalactic astrophysics: The supposed existence of a galaxy without dark matter.

Some pairs fit into pencil cases while others slice through iron wiring

What is the age profile of populations around the world? How did it change and what will the age structure of populations look like in the future?

We've learned bees can understand zero and do basic math, and now a new study shows their tiny insect brains may be capable of connecting symbols to numbers.

When I tell people I’m the CEO of a company with 80 team members in 14 time zones and no ‘real’ offices (no offense to WeWork), many look at me like I’m crazy. But even though it all feels totally normal to me and my team after four years, I have to recall…

Statistical Rethinking course at MPI-EVA from Dec 2018 through Feb 2019 - rmcelreath/statrethinking_winter2019

Backers say changes needed to spur innovation, but critics disagree

Google is planning changes in Chrome impacting ad blocker extensions and people are wondering whether those changes are motivated by self-interest or whether there are plausible, benign explanations. In this post I’ll attempt to summarize the background and…

Massive crowds are causing environmental degradation, dangerous conditions, and the immiseration and pricing-out of locals.

Cases have doubled in just over two months in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.