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.

Are we happier when we spend more time with others? Studies suggest social relations are a key factor in happiness & life satisfaction. We take a closer look at the evidence for how much social connections matter for happiness.

Scientists say the loss of a single gene two to three million years ago in our ancestors may have resulted in a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease in all humans as a species, while also setting up a further risk for red meat-eating humans.

MIT engineers have developed a novel microfluidics biosensor that detects diagnostic levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a protein biomarker for sepsis, in 25 minutes using less than a finger prick of blood.

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