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.

The charm of buying used workstation hardware to support your modern computing needs. If it doesn’t work for them, it might just work for you.

API documentation for the Rust `actix_web` crate.

If you haven’t read the other posts, go now: Part 1: the state manager Part 2: the graphic initialization Part 3: the engine entity   We have a state manager now but a game without graphic re…

This paper is a reproduction of work by Ray et al. which claimed to have uncovered a statistically significant association between eleven programming languages and software defects in projects...

Broadcasters and rights groups have described the raid as an "attack on press freedom".

This Mexican researcher hopes her invention can help replace single-use plastics

To certain people, mingling at a party or talking to a crowded room is the stuff of nightmares. Why are some of us hardwired to be shy?

The decision by YouTube, which is owned by Google, is the latest action by a Silicon Valley company to stem the spread of hate speech and disinformation on their sites.

The company has a long history of dumping plastic trash and oily waste from its ships, with violations dating back to 1993. In 2016, its Princess subsidiary agreed to pay $40 million for pollution.

Lost luggage is the bane of air travel, so can better tracking technology address the issue?

The market for master’s degrees behaves in strange and erratic ways, new data reveals.