Apple has disabled the Apple Watch Walkie Talkie app due to an unspecified vulnerability that could allow a person to listen to another customer’s iPhone without consent, the company told TechCrunch this evening. Apple has apologized for the bug and for the…

The dark underbelly of ad-tech

Illustrations from the 19th-century physics text books of Amédée Guillemin.

Remembering David Bowie, most people rightfully think of his genre-defying music and androgynous, futuristic fashion sense. But Memphis-Milano furniture? ...

Go is perceived by some as a pure Google project without community involvement (see https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIsGooglesLanguage). Adding a Google logo does not help in ...

The Cloud Native Tunnel

zelda speedrunners are now at the point where they're attacking the memory allocator to Go Fast -- repeatedly leaking memory to get the heap increasingly fragmented until there isn't a contiguous region of memory large enough to load obstacles https://t.co/1LKnyd6Qoa

Patton Hindle, senior director of arts at Kickstarter, argues for backing artists’ projects from the earliest stages of research and development.

Companies outside the technology sector are stepping into the software market, selling digital tools developed by their own information-technology teams to other businesses, with some firms even spinning off tech units.

How a ruse to keep German pilots confused gave the Vitamin-A-rich vegetable too much credit

Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users. - luksamuk/powerlisp

Soar through a cosmic menagerie of moons—and learn their long-held secrets—in our interactive atlas.

It is all but impossible to beat an Aggregator head-on, as Walmart is trying to do with Amazon. The solution instead is to build a platform like Shopify.

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Imagine if all our scientific theories and models told us…

The US says it is concerned that plans for a 3% tax on tech giants will unfairly target US firms.

Malicious apps from a campaign called "Agent Smith" have been downloaded to 25 million Android devices, according to new research by cyber-security firm Check Point.

Elisabeth Hawar wrote her name in the front of her recipe book and dated her collection 1687. She also wrote two addresses in the Shoreditch and Spitalfields East London neighborhoods inside the fr…

Last month, I got an interesting request for a contract assignment on Upwork. An HR company on Upwork tasking algorithm. As a data scientist I was pretty intrigued because I had