For years, fraudsters have been getting away with tricking Google into pushing them higher up on the search result pages than they deserve to be. We’ll look at a PBN example, and explore if search engines can do anything about them.

The firm's plan to launch a censored search engine in China had faced much criticism.

The vertical scrolling effect in the original “The Legend of Zelda” relies on manipulating the NES graphics hardware in a manner that was likely unintended by its designers. Since I don’t have access to any official documentation for the NES Picture Processing…

Ford and other companies say the industry overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles, which still struggle to anticipate what other drivers and pedestrians will do.

Amazon’s data-collection is being put under the microscope

Becoming an astronaut ranked last among five professions.

Imagine if everyone spoke a language you don’t understand. People have been speaking it around you since the day you were born, but while everyone else picks it up immediately, for you it means nothing. Others become frustrated with you. Friendships and jobs…

Our increasingly aggressive modern
compilers produce increasingly surprising code optimizations. Some of
these optimizations might be especially surprising to developers who assume
that each plain C-language load or store will always result in an
assembly…

Fossils are the most reliable way we can piece together the history of humans, but some clues have been inside us all along. The human genome can tell us where we've come from, and it's hiding more than a few surprises. Now researchers from the University…

Mobile network operators (also: telephone companies, telcos, providers) sometimes offer low cost data packages that are usable only on the phone. Or so, they say.

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Starting in Firefox 70, Mozilla aims to have the browser report when any of your saved logins were found in data breaches. This will be done through their partnership with the Have I Been Pwned data breach site.

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Watching a couple hours of TV a day can have major effects on your brain. So what would happen if you quit cold turkey?

Princeton seismologists found mountains and smooth plains on a boundary layer inside the Earth’s mantle.

The move by TurboTax maker Intuit to charge more lower-income customers has helped boost revenue.

Candidates should be preparing for the job, not the interview. Byteboard saves companies time through a more equitable and effective interview.

Front-end antics and typographic mischievousness