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.

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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.

Google rivals have called for intervention from EU regulators over Google's decision to open an auction process to become the default Android search engine.

The latest report in EPI’s annual series analyzing current and long-term trends in CEO compensation.

As rising temperatures drastically reshape Iceland’s landscape, businesses and the government are spending millions for survival and profit.

Toptal, a service that connects companies with freelance software engineers, is a Silicon Valley success story. Founded in 2010, it soon attracted funding from well-known investors including Andreessen Horowitz and hired scores of employees who were promised…

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Instead of focusing on skills thought to be required of data scientists, we can look at what they have actually done before

When I was working on systems deployed in on-premises data centers, it sometimes happened I had to debug an unresponsive server. It usually involved asking someone to physically press a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) button on the frozen server or to send a…

When our cherished ideas are contradicted by the facts, we must avoid the human tendency to double down on those ideas

What issues does Hoefler&Co’s Cloud.typography introduce, and how can we mitigate them?

In conversation with Google Play Store developer support today, they confirmed to me that all new Android apps now require at least three days for approval.

Ever since the late 19th century, physicists have known about a counterintuitive property of some electric circuits called negative resistance. Typically, increasing the voltage in a circuit causes the ...

Nature - Elusive 18-atom ‘cyclocarbon’ could be a step towards molecule-scale transistors.