American diplomats’ brains shrunk following an alleged sonic attack on the US Embassy in Cuba, according to a new study.

Fifty-two sailors were on board when the Minerve vanished over 50 years ago in the Mediterranean.

Stephen Wolfram shares his memories of mathematical physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum. Also a detailed discussion of his work and big discovery of a universal constant for functions approaching chaos via period doubling.

Map With AI, tool created by Facebook researchers and engineers, is helping the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project map missing roads around the world.

The Justice Department is opening a broad antitrust review into whether dominant technology firms are unlawfully stifling competition.

Announcing composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia | Software performance depends more and more on exploiting multiple processor cores....

The USAF has them but isn't telling us they do, or they don't. Either way we are in trouble. Here's why.

By Luc Vincent, EVP Autonomous Technology

I mentioned this on Twitter yesterday: Here’s the full story on it. Yesterday I flew home from Spain, where I’d spent a week at the Celsius 232 festival in Aviles. It was a lovely time,…

Toilets from all around the world and throughout history, from the Indiana Jones and Ansel Adams of latrines All this and more on the Toilets of the World.

The Ġgantija temples of Malta are among the earliest free-standing buildings known.Photograph by Bs0u10e01 / WikicommonsThe mysteries…

A new project looks at the race of on-duty police officers and civilians involved in 917 fatal shootings in 2015.

The PingCAP company, makers of the TiDB NewSQL database and the TiKV key-value store, have kindly made publicly available, as well as open-sourced, a set of training courses that they call the "PingCAP Talent Plan". These courses train programmers in writing…

On the weekend of Anime Expo, an artist promised the humanly impossible -- custom art commissions with a five-minute turnaround time. The not-so-hidden catch? The artist wasn't a human at all, but an AI exposed to millions of anime images.

Just yesterday, I created a Vimeo account and uploaded my first two videos. This effort was in support of my most recent blog post, Early Retirement Expert. Today, a day later, I thought I’d go in and include links to that blog post in the denoscription for…

My dad was one of the only people with a good-for-life, go-anywhere American Airlines pass. Then they took it away. This is the true story of having—and losing—a superpower.