Since 1900, nearly 3 species of seed-bearing plants have disappeared per year ― 500 times faster than they would naturally.

Not by sharing.

A wide range of companies are lining up to complain about Silicon Valley’s power as lawmakers and regulators step up their scrutiny of Big Tech.

A Border Patrol database of traveler photos and license plate images was "compromised by a malicious cyber-attack."

A New York Times story published on Sunday contains an eye-opening allegation: Google “made $4.7 billion from the news industry in 2018,” according to a new report. The lede of the story quotes the figure again, with all of the zeroes, and mentions that this…

It's based on math reasoning that would be embarrassing from a bright middle schooler.

Multiprocessors with relaxed memory models can be very confusing. Writes can be seen out of order, reads can be speculative and return values from the future–what a mess! In order to impose s…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed a data breach has exposed the photos of travelers and vehicles traveling in and out of the United States. The photos were transferred to a subcontractor’s network and later stolen through a “malicious cyberattack…

The chief scientist at RStudio and developer of open source tools for data scientists on bribes, bears and where your next story is hiding.

Reproducibility is an essential requirement for many fields of research including those based on machine learning techniques. However, many machine learning publications are either not reproducible or are difficult to reproduce. With the continued growth…

May was another amazing month for the AV1 codec! We saw great progress in the SVT-AV1 encoder, Android update news and some surprising news out of China!
SVT-AV1 is making strides! Let’s start with SVT-AV1 encoder, the current encoder of choice for Netflix…

How do you design good abstractions? By using abstractions that already exist.

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NASA’s trip to the Moon’s surface in July 1969 was preceded by a lot of preparatory missions — including Apollo 10, which involved a mock mission with everything but the actual landing. Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan flew a lunar module, nicknamed…