The illusionist Derren Brown has studied the philosophy and psychology of happiness - and he argues that many of us could take a radical new approach to improving our wellbeing

When I was a teenager, my father and I shared books. We didn’t share the physical copy, at least not often—my dad was serving a ten-year sentence in California, and I was at school in Bath, England…

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First published April 2018. For at least five years there has been a distinct push within the identity management industry towards attributes: a steady shift from who someone is to what they are. It

In 2017, Boeing learned that the AOA disagree alert — a standard feature on all 737 MAX aircraft — didn't work on the majority of the planes.

Commercial DNA tests showed that Hiram and Bruce were related. But their link proved to be much deeper — and darker — than either could have imagined.

Quantum computers will be able to overpower current encryption within a decade. That has security experts scrambling to come up with new ways to protect our data before it is too late.

While writing her latest novel, the American author became obsessed with theoretical physics. She talks about sexism in science, falling in love with teachers and grief

A talk given by Dan Ingalls and his father at Xerox PARC in 1980. It describes a project to determine authorship of various sections of the great Indian epic, the…

Here’s a fun bit of trivia: malloc on Linux never fails [due to the obvious cause]. In this post, we’ll show that this indeed is the case, and explore why…

What did people's desktops look like?

FOSS messaging apps such as [Telegram-FOSS](https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS), [riot.im](https://riot.im/), and other free...

Near the end of the war in 1945, Jewish prisoners from the Bergen-Belsen death camp were being transported by rail to another camp when their German guards abandoned the train. The US Army happened upon the survivors. Two soldiers took photographs. And from…

On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its

Firefox premium will launch by October that'll have features like VPN (Virtual Private Network) and secure cloud storage. 

During World War II, STEINWAY AND SONS produced specially-built pianos for the American troops. Called the Victory Vertical or G.I. Steinways, the pianos were sometimes airdropped onto battlefields to provide a bit of relaxation...

Most citizens would prefer UK-based and regulated universities and companies to handle and process unidentifiable patient data.