The adblocking filter list, which helps power browsers including Brave and adblockers including Adblock Plus, is community maintained, and it requires site owners to submit to an unusual review process if EasyList causes any problems.

Distant starlight passing through the Earth's atmosphere is refracted by an angle of just over one degree near the surface. This focuses light onto a focal line starting at an inner (and...

Falsifying data for dissertations was definitely in the mix.

Zhou Yi was terrible at math. He risked never getting into college. Then a company called Squirrel AI came to his middle school in Hangzhou, China, promising personalized tutoring. He had tried tutoring services before, but this one was different: instead…

Protests backing the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong have led to heated clashes in Australia.

During the same summer that he wrote “The Amiable Fleas,” now published in English for the first time, the American author also appears to have been gathering intel for the Agency.

Google’s parent company now holds $117 billion in cash

Were the ancient Egyptians able to use reed boats to travel as far as the Black Sea thousands of years ago?

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Bloomberg CityLab reports on the world’s cities, communities, and neighborhoods: How they work, the challenges they face, and the solutions they need.

/u/eleitl posted a question about why 'neutral's' and 'ground's' and connected at the panel. There was a TON of inaccurate information presented...

Oh, animation… we want to get it right so badly, don’t we? I mean, does anybody really enjoys a stiff, snappy UI? Can anyone admit they’re…

The near-total lack of transparency in healthcare pricing is a key reason we have the highest costs in the world -- roughly twice what people in other developed countries pay.

Facebook AI has made scientific progress in improving nuanced conversational skills, including consistency, specificity, and empathy.

Many of the most consequential projects of the internet era — from Wikipedia to Facebook and bitcoin — have all been predicated on network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it.  As …