We’re releasing AI Habitat, a powerful new open source simulation platform for training agents in photo-realistic 3D reconstructions of physical environments.

How Japanese railway theatre could make aviation safer

There’s free entertainment on trains in Japan. Ride near the driver’s or conductor’s positions and you can watch them making bold gestures, accompanied by confident and abrupt vocalisations, sometimes…

What really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin on the night of 4 August 1964? Documents released over the past several years have cleared up the picture.

Lego has spent the past seven years trying to make its blocks with plastic derived from plants, but finding the material to hit its target is proving difficult.

Learn faster. Retain more. Science -- and Adam Grant -- says so.

New experimental results simultaneously advance and challenge the theory that the brain's network of neurons balances on the knife-edge between two phases.

The fast spreading and ease of access to Machine Learning and Cloud computing has brought to a boom of experiments and ...

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Apple is reportedly still in talks to buy the German operations of Intel's 5G modem business, presumably to design an integrated modem into future A Series processors.

Protesters plan a return to the airport—and there is very little the authorities can do

America is a hideously unequal place with a large propertyless underclass.

KBall, Divya, and Nick get together with Chris Ferdinandi to talk about vanilla JavaScript, best resources for learning, and our favorite vanilla JavaScript tips, tricks and APIs.

Why is a receipt for cough drops the height of a small child?

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The discovery that Earth revolves around the Sun was revolutionary. It fundamentally changed how we viewed the cosmos, as well as ourselves.
But the Earth does not revolve around the Sun. At least,...

Inside the collapse of a once-robust industry, and the ‘Shark Tank’ star who abetted the process.