An interesting new study finds that novice investors are actually better off choosing stocks completely at random instead of making their own decisions.

When São Paulo introduced its Clean City Law (Lei Cidade Limpa) a decade ago, over 15,000 marketing billboards were taken down. An additional 300,000 ostentatious business signs, hanging over streets or painted in large letters on facades, were also subject…

Over the last year or so I have worked on a research linux distribution in my spare time. It’s not a distribution for researchers (like Scientific Linux), but my personal playground project to research linux distribution development, i.e. try out fresh ideas.

Microsoft is committed to giving our customers industry-leading performance for all their workloads. After being the first global cloud provider to announce the deployment of AMD EPYC™ based Azure ...

A practical guide to starting your own Internet Service Provider.

GNU Parallel is a command-line tool for Unix-like operating systems which allows the user to execute shell commands in parallel. GNU Parallel 2018 is the tutorial for the tool. The printed version is available at www.lulu.com/shop/ole-tange/gnu-parallel-…

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Thanks to the open-source nature of Chromium, Microsoft has had its first major and positive impact on Chrome, Google’s web browser.

You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis

These 4 audacious projects are demonstrating the ingenuity we will need to address climate change.

Stone tools uncovered in Mongolia by an international team of archaeologists indicate that modern humans traveled across the Eurasian steppe about 45,000 years ago, according to a new University of California, Davis, study. The date is about 10,000 years…

Kaspersky promises security and data protection. However, a data leak allowed third parties to spy on users while they were surfing the web. For years.

Hong Kong's social media users have started writing posts in phonetically-spelled Cantonese words as a means to shut out mainland internet trolls who were targeting supporters of the anti-extradition movement with messages and even some threats. It’s believed…

Apple ups its privacy batte with a new "WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy" that aims to prevent all forms covert tracking online.

A Flash Player emulator written in Rust. Contribute to ruffle-rs/ruffle development by creating an account on GitHub.

Comparing a simple neural network in Rust and Python

In the past 30 years, the UK's manufacturing sector has shrunk by two-thirds, the greatest de-industrialisation of any major nation. It was done in the name of economic modernisation – but what has replaced it?

The Department of Transportation’s declaration that miniature horses should be prioritized as service animals has raised many questions.