Thousands of workers are calling for better conditions as the retail giant's annual sale starts.

Getting sufficient clean, reliable data is one of the hardest parts of data science. Web scraping automates the process of visiting web pages, downloading the data, and cleaning the results. With this technique, we can create new datasets from a large compendium…

Microsoft's future in Germany is in question again.

The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Here are some theories about why

Read on to find out how the Wright brothers, with no scientific background, fueled the age of aviation using a methodical, data-driven approach.

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Writing a Ph.D. thesis with Org Mode. Contribute to dangom/org-thesis development by creating an account on GitHub.

I’ve been writing on Medium for three and a half years. In that time, I’ve written somewhere north of 100,000 words, in more than 50 long-form essays, read by many tens of thousands of people. I’m …

It's to prevent them from killing you

As politicians call for more regulation, you share your stories about children spending money within games.

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MIT researchers have created a fiber-based, lightweight, fast-acting artificial muscle that could be useful for robotics and for prosthetics.

SpaceX has announced via an official update and conference call the preliminary results of a failure investigation convened immediately after Crew Dragon capsule C201 exploded in the midst of an April 20th static fire test. Hosted by SpaceX Vice President…