Square has lent billions to small businesses and consumers and applied for a banking license, but it says it isn’t a financial company.

July 16, 2019 – Ten days after calling off her engagement, CJ Hauser travels to the Gulf Coast to live among scientists and whooping cranes.

The We Company, beleaguered parent of the short-term real estate property management and development company WeWork and other We-related subsidiaries, has issued a statement that says it “expects” to complete its initial public offering by the end of the…

MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library. - microsoft/STL

(Reuters) - WeWork owner The We Company has postponed its initial public offering (IPO), walking away from preparations to launch it this month after a lackluster response from investors to its plans.

New home of the DNSCrypt project, now implementing multiple protocols to improve DNS security. Download official DNSCrypt & DoH servers and clients here.

Before diving inFor a long time, I recall having this vague impression about Gaussian Processes (GPs) being able to magically define probability distributions over sets of functions, yet I procrastinated reading up about them for many many moons. However…

GNU man resigns after Minsky email defense 'the final straw' for dev world

Consumers have a few options for dealing with the data breach settlement.

With a brief announcement,
the Free Software Foundation has let it be known that founder Richard
Stallman has resigned both as president and from the board of directors.
"The board will be conducting a search for a new president, beginning
immediately. Further…

Over the coming week, the Guardian will select the greatest culture since 2000, carefully compiled by critics and editors. We begin with a countdown of defining classical music compositions, from X-rated opera to high-tech string quartets

During the reign of Sultan Mehmet IV (r. 1648-87), the Dîvân-ı Hümâyûn (imperial council) would meet every other morning in a domed chamber of the Topkapi Palace. When the Grand Vizier and his ministers had dealt with affairs of state, they would sit down…

How we can close opportunity gaps across the globe.

Astronomers using the GBT have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, a rapidly spinning pulsar approximately 4,600 light-years from Earth.

“The X-15 was the most demanding airplane I’ve ever flown."

Millions of books are secretly in the public domain thanks to a copyright loophole, a new project seeks to put them on the Internet Archive.

Researchers estimate that the project will cost a few billion dollars, which is “within the whim of one particularly motivated billionaire.”