by Jean-Louis Gassée

How an animal lover’s hobby of recording himself feeding stray cats exemplifies the glory of the anonymous web.

You can adjust temperature with a smartphone app.

An internet linguist dives into the sludge of gesture and easily reproduced half-thought that we speak through online.

After the University of Alaska lost 41 percent of its state funding, thousands of students were told Alaska would no longer be providing promised state scholarships.

Findings say it is impossible for researchers to fully protect real identities in datasets

The transit agency’s new railcars are stumbling through maintenance issues, which are slowing the rollout of a fleet that captivated riders and transit officials for years. One group of new cars is supposed to run 6,000 hours before hitting any kind of equipment…

Hello everyone. We are pleased to announce the availability of the new PyPy for AArch64. This port brings PyPy's high-performance just-in...

I’m a software engineer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. My interests include getting computers to behave, helping other people get computers to behave, open source, maths, and music.

When an experiment with existing open source technology does a “good enough” job

So far it has been tested only in simulated laboratory conditions, though.

A close look at two periods of degraded service on Coinbase.com during the week of June 24.

Chaser, often described as “the world’s smartest dog,” made headlines worldwide for being able to identify objects by their names.

There is, apparently, an increase recently in interest in the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Washington Post writes about this recently, making the obvious political observation (having to do with the current occupant of the White House). It's great that there…