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

The Trump administration says the new 3% tax on sales in France will harm US online giants.

Objective To assess the associations between the consumption of sugary drinks (such as sugar sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juices), artificially sweetened beverages, and the risk of cancer.

Design Population based prospective cohort study.

Setting…

The man who created some of early Hollywood's funniest gags ended up a forgotten suicide.

A 210,000-year-old skull in Greece is the earliest evidence for modern humans in Eurasia and suggests they left Africa earlier than previously thought.

Ecosia uses 100% of its profits for the planet and produces enough renewable energy to power all searches twice over.

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Why BPF and XDP are something you should learn.

Google also revealed that an investigation has been launched after Dutch audio data was leaked.

To manage Voyager 2's dwindling power supply, engineers recently shut off one instrument's primary heater. So far, the cooled instrument continues to return data.