Some time after “A Perfect Spy” came out, in 1986, Philip Roth remarked that it was “the best English novel since the war.”

A 30-year-old who has experience skydiving is recovering in hospital with several fractures after her parachute failed during her fall from a plane last weekend in Trois-Rivières, Que., but police say her life is not in danger. 

I'm usually glad to catch a bug before release, but not this time.

Our personal tech columnist asked security researchers what they could find out about him from just his cellphone number. Quite a lot, it turns out.

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

To render terrain in 3D, you need a triangular mesh — a set of 3D triangles representing the surface. The easiest way to get one from height data is a uniform grid (two triangles per pixel), but that's a lot of triangles. For fast rendering, we want to reduce…

GE says the allegations of fraud are "entirely false and misleading."

Physicians diagnose and administer treatment as needed; time of day is rarely considered. Yet, accumulating evidence shows that our molecular clocks orchestrate 24-hour circadian rhythms in vital cardio-metabolic, endocrine, immunologic, and behavioral functions.…

Researchers have published a new 3D bioprinting method that brings the field of tissue engineering one step closer to being able to 3D print a full-sized, adult human heart.

How Valve’s perfect work culture turned into a toxic bully’s yard and what it tells us about “flat hierarchy” workplaces.

Smart TVs continue to look dumber by the day.

I dedicate this to the energy of We.

Who could have seen that coming?

Financial disclosures from Wework in support of its IPO reveal that the company loses almost $5,200/customer, and that it hemorrhaged $1.3B in the first half of 2019.

See updated video here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/from-automatic-differentiation-to-message-passing/

Automatic differentiation is an elegant technique for converting a computable function expressed as a program into a derivative-computing…

Hedonometer.org is an instrument that measures the happiness of large populations in real time. The hedonometer is based on people’s online expressions, capitalizing on data-rich social media, and measures how people present themselves to the outside world.