Iceland on Sunday honoured the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate.

Meet two brothers working to preserve the Fulani language and the culture embedded within it.

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Summary: academia has a lot of problems and it could work much better. However, these problems…

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In the popular trend of unintentionally horrifying “uplifting” news, out-of-touch corporate media give us supposedly charming, wholesome and positive news that actually, upon even minimal...

A guest post on the strange lives of octopuses.

Lawmakers ban plastic straws as a far worse kind of waste covers the streets of San Francisco and L.A.

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Employers are seeing a surge in CVs from Gen Z job applicants containing photos and illustrations; ‘there’s a freaking bitmoji’

It’s possible that the only thing engineers hate more than a nasty bug is interviewing. Interviews are interruptions from deep work…

Model-free reinforcement learning (RL) can be used to learn effective policies for complex tasks, such as Atari games, even from image observations. However, this typically requires very large...

I was very excited when I first used YAML, but some real-world usage showed it's not so great after all