Farming octopuses is not only unethical but deeply damaging to the environment, scientists say.

Apple is taking a swipe at Facebook and other messaging apps by making a small but significant change to its mobile operating system.The change will restrict a feature that apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp used to make voice calls over the internet.…

For most of the last decade I've made things in Racket -- including making tools and tutorials to support other people making things in Racket. At RacketCon 2019, Aaron Turon gave the keynote about the Rust community. That afternoon, I had a talk about Ra...

*Rocket Lab Announces Reusability Plans For Electron Rocket *

What is computational thinking? What does it look like in discrete mathematics courses? And what are good tools for helping get this done?

It took a year, but the patch fixes a new speculative-execution flaw found by Bitdefender.

In findings that give fresh meaning to the old adage that a good night’s sleep clears the mind, a new study shows that a recently discovered system that flushes waste from the brain is primarily active during sleep. This revelation could transform scientists’…

Humorous anecdotes of users creatively misusing computers.

The president of the Baptist University's Student Union, Keith Fong, was arrested on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon on Tuesday, after police said he was carrying 10 laser pointers in Sham Shui Po. More than a hundred people gathered outside the…

A conversation about innovation under extreme circumstances.

area of a hard drive that is not normally visible to an operating system

The next several chapters will be describing the basic data structures that every programming language provides, their usage, and the most i...

Many if not most people who go to medical school are making a huge mistake—one they won’t realize they’ve made until it’s too late to undo. So many medical students, residents, an…

Consider:
When I put a dot after the Super User URL, https://superuser.com., it acted like I wasn't signed in. Why is this happening? What does a dot symbolize in the URL?

Divers swimming through Heracleion, an ancient Egyptian city that's now under water, have discovered a trove of artifacts, including the remains of a temple, gold jewelry, coins and the missing piece of a ceremonial boat, according to Egypt's Ministry of…

"They're all going to dump lidar," Musk said about self-driving rivals in April.

Who got there first?

The UC Negotiating Team  Ivy Anderson, (Co-Chair), Associate Executive Director of the California Digital Library; Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (Co-Chair), University Librarian and Professor, School of Information and Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley; Günter Waibel…