Private health insurers contribute nothing to healthcare except costs. It's time to throw them out.

Starting since version 1.30, the Mac, Linux, and Windows Private Internet Access (PIA) desktop clients have come with the ability to change the selected

Two weeks ago, with the help of Egyptologist @drserenalove and Microbiologist @rbowman1234, I went to Boston’s MFA and @Harvard’s @peabodymuseum to attempt collecting 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery. Today, I baked with some of it...

A growing number of people are eschewing soap and trusting bacteria to do the job instead – and an entire industry has sprung up to accommodate them

A genetic mutation that slowed down the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in two or more children may have triggered a cascade of events leading to acquisition of recursive language and modern ...

Scientific Reports - Effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide on soil animal trophic groups and associated ecosystem functioning in a northern agricultural field

Silicon Valley is a coal mine for ideas. There’s something special about it: unlike a coal miner, you get to keep and sell what you extract from the ore deposits, and I feel lucky to have the setup that I do. But it is work.

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Today at Flash Memory Summit, Toshiba is debuting a new form factor for NVMe SSDs that is small enough to be a removable alternative to soldered-down BGA SSDs. The new XFMEXPRESS form factor allows for two or four PCIe lanes while taking up much less space…

Google Voice takes your phone subnoscription to the next level, thanks to advanced features such as voicemail trannoscription and web texting and calling. The

NYC Mesh is a band of about 50 volunteers building their own internet service for which members donate about $20 a month for a high-speed connection.

After installing Google Chrome 76, if you feel like something is missing from the address bar you would be correct. This is because Google has decided to once again hide, or elide, the "www" subdomain and also "https://" from the address of the web site you…

Launching a product without research rarely leads to success, unless you have 50-plus years experience in the market and in the niche of a product. To those who are not that old and not that wise, the following steps will help to reduce the risk of wasting…

Alex Creely and Erica Salazar describe how a private company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, is betting on advanced magnet technologies to make the fusion dream a reality

When you work on a software project, someone will eventually ask a variation of this dreaded question - "Do you know where I can find documentation for this feature?" or "Do you know why we implemented pattern x over pattern y?" or my personal favourite "What…

Around the world, 17 countries are currently facing extremely high water stress. Climate change is making the problem worse.

A 34-year-old citizen of Pakistan is charged with paying more than $1 million in bribes to employees at AT&T's Seattle-area offices and call centers

An easy method that promised to cut complications in surgery may not be so simple after all.