In an unprecedented move, Germany sold 30-year bonds at a negative yield, as investors desperate for safe assets bet that further falls in yields will boost the value of the bonds in the future.

The kind of company it is influences investors and its valuation.

Despite the obvious risk and years of warnings, at least eight American states and 16 million American voters will use completely paperless machines in the 2020 US elections, a new report by New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice found. Paperless…

Adding the Cloud Run button to your github source code repositories lets anyone deploy their application to Google Cloud.

More than a decade after the financial crisis, home buyers with low credit scores or high debt levels as well as those lacking traditional employment are finding it easier to obtain credit.

Nicotine-free e-cigarette aerosol inhalation in young, healthy nonsmokers resulted in transient impairment of vascular reactivity and endothelial function by using quantitative MRI metrics across m...

An optimizing compiler is one that tries to maximize some attribute(s) of an executable program at the expense of other attribute(s). Usually the goal is to improve performance or code size at the expense of compiler time and the possibility to debug the…

Valve gets heavily criticized for mishandling a crucial bug report.

Today we are announcing the distributed version of TimescaleDB, which is currently in private beta (public version slated for later this year).

I’m sure that most, if not all of you, have seen recent news stories about Jeffrey Epstein, and I owe it to you to address my prior affiliation with him.I met …

New saltwater electrical generation method could power submarines or even implantable medical devices

As the business boomed and massive data in applications accrued each month, Zhihu faced severe challenges in scaling the backend system. This post introduces how Zhihu managed to keep milliseconds of query response time over a large amount of data and how…

The WebAuthn standard for security keys is making authentication as easy as possible. Now you can use security keys for second-factor authentication on GitHub with many more browsers and devices.

By Michael Austin, Manunoscript Cataloger, Houghton Library The José María Castañé collection of material relating to major conflicts of the 20th century, held by Houghton Library, contains an incred…

On Tuesday, Nevada became the latest state to pass a bill that would grant its Electoral College votes to whoever wins the national popular vote.

I’m about to accept a PR that will increase druid’s compile time about 3x and its executable size almost 2x. In this case, I think the tradeoff is worth it (without localization, a GUI toolkit is strictly a toy), but the bloat makes me unhappy and I think…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. job market isn't quite as strong as originally believed — with revised figures showing that the economy had 501,000 fewer total jobs this March than initially...

My journey to finding love using science and data. Part 1 – how to own online dating.

Splunk, the publicly traded data processing and analytics company, today announced that it has acquired SignalFx for a total price of about $1.05 billion. Approximately 60% of this will be in cash and 40% in Splunk common stock. The companies expect the acquisition…

When I came to the U.S. from China as a student, my thinking had been shaped by Chinese propaganda.