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

Umberto Eco | Footnotes to Plato | Paul Cobley discusses how Eco advanced semiotics and championed the sophistication of popular culture

With an international council now on the brink of declaring the species unsustainable – and Brexit looming – what is the future for one of the nation’s favourite meals?

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The world’s best cryptographers meet this week to compete in a U.S.-sponsored challenge to create a quantum-resistant standard.

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A huge number of Amiga games contain hidden messages, sometimes encrypted, and often left to abuse the cracking groups. Pirates were seen as taking money away from the developers, despite most publishers never supplying sales figures!

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Before the EPA, the US environment was not federally protected. Here are 35 vintage photos showing US cities before regulations limited the damage.