Baron Haussmann wanted to build a barricade-proof city, but the people he displaced defied his plans.

Can a human touch make Silicon Valley’s biggest discussion forum a more thoughtful place?

The standard account of China’s economic rise focuses on its state capitalism, whereby the government, endowed with huge assets, can pursue a wide-ranging industrial policy and intervene to mitigate risks. This explanation is wrong.

Which skills does a CTO need in a growing company? Every start-up and scale-up needs differently skilled people at the helm in different stages of growth. Finding the perfect CTO can be very hard.

As AI and HPC datasets continue to increase in size, the time spent loading data for a given application begins to place a strain on the total application’s performance. When considering end-to-end…

As the trade war escalates, Beijing needs private companies to pull China’s economy out of its rut. But for some, ready money can be hard to find.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc <AMD.O> on Wednesday released the second generation of its processor chip for data centres and said that it had landed Alphabet Inc' <GOOGL.O> Google and Twitter Inc <TWTR.N> as customers.

The land can be a powerful tool for combating global warming -- if it's used wisely. Healthy forests and sustainable agriculture are key, a U.N. report says.

When I was 16 I was visited by a man who said he had come from the future. He had traveled twenty years back to 1999 to sit down with me and have a chat. We talked for an hour...

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Health minister confirms plans and calls on neighbouring countries to relax their laws

The food delivery company said it acquired the domains and set up the sites as a service to customers. But some say they didn't know about it.

Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages still in
use today—Fortran is older by a year, but the Lisp community (or
communities) seems to be the more dynamic of the two. In any case, the Lisp
landscape has a lot of nooks and crannies to explore; I…

Channel Fireball provides comprehensive content about Magic: the Gathering singles, strategy, cards, decks.

This article compares the performance of several approaches when summing two sequences element-wise with different Python loops.

As part of the System Transparency project and partnership with Mullvad, we ported the Supermicro X11SSH-TF server platform to coreboot.

This post is part of the series “Debris: Opening the box”. Okay, previous posts from this series aimed to actually convey useful technical information: assuming you actually want to wri…

The British Expedition to Abyssinia was a rescue mission and punitive expedition carried out in 1868 by the armed forces of the British Empire against the Ethiopian Empire (also known at the time as Abyssinia). Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia, then often…

Documents, screenshots, and audio obtained by Motherboard show that humans listen to Skype calls made using the app's translation function.