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.

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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

For the past few years, I've been building and operating a large distributed
system: the payments system at Uber [https://eng.uber.com/payments-platform/].
I've learned a lot about distributed architecture concepts
[https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/distributed…

The company blamed its Q2 content slate and price increases for the subscriber miss.

The Python 3.8 beta cycle is already underway, with Python 3.8.0b1
released on June 4, followed by the second beta
on July 4. That means that Python 3.8 is feature complete at
this point, which makes it a good time to see what will be part of it when
the…