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.

How can they distinguish between ...

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

GraphBLAS for Python. Contribute to michelp/pygraphblas development by creating an account on GitHub.

In the spirit of transparency, I'd like to (publicly) find a new home for my repositories. I want to be able to still make contributions to them, but no longer be considered the "owner&quo...

If local governments are going to lose money on residential development, then they have to make it up on commercial development. That’s a risky business model, one that doesn’t pencil out.

Egypt has opened King Sneferu’s 4,600-year-old “bent” pyramid to the public. The 101m-high structure, in the Dahshur royal necropolis, just south of Cairo, is one of two built for Sneferu, the