Poe’s story of a treasure hunt, revealing the fantastical writer’s hyper-rational penchant for cracking codes.

Our goal with Siri, the pioneering intelligent assistant, is to provide the best experience for our customers while vigilantly protecting their privacy.

We’re pleased to announce that Microsoft is supporting the addition of Microsoft’s exFAT technology to the Linux kernel.

The history of espionage is a lesson in paradox: the better your intelligence, the dumber your conduct; the more you know, the less you anticipate.

Study shows university software engineering programs focus too much on the needs of large companies

Today we’re happy to announce the availability of TypeScript 3.6! For those unfamiliar, TypeScript is a language that builds on JavaScript by adding optional static types. These types can be checked by the TypeScript compiler to catch common errors in your…

An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign

India has further liberalized its foreign direct investment (FDI) rules for many sectors, opening new avenues for global investors and giants such as Apple as Asia’s third-largest economy attempts to jump-start its years-low economic growth.

Reify: Sell More Software

Another reverse location search warrant

Machine Learning in Systems Jeff Dean (of Google fame) gave a presentation two weeks ago (slides), where he stated Learning Should Be Used Throughout our Computing Systems Traditional low-level systems code (operating systems, compilers, storage systems)…

Alexander the Great’s death is an unsolved mystery. Was he a victim of natural causes, felled by some kind of fever, or did his marshals assas­sinate him, angered by his tyrannical ways? An autopsy…

A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors - sharkdp/pastel

Clever tricks work around major hurdles, but it's not a route to high performance.

A serverless workflow that posts any new #1 articles on Hacker News to Slack