The mysterious ailments experienced by some 40 Canadian and U.S. diplomats and their families while stationed in Cuba may have had nothing to do with sonic "attacks" identified in earlier studies.

The number of birds in the United States and Canada has declined by 3 billion, or 29 percent, over the past half-century, scientists find.

Silicon Valley is terrified. In a little over three months, California will see the widest-sweeping state-wide changes to its privacy law in years. California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) kicks in on January 1 and rolls out sweeping new privacy benefits…

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Since it hit 1,000,000% in 2018, Venezuelan hyperinflation has actually been not only continuing but accelerating. Recently, Venezuela’s annual inflation hit 10 million percent, as predicted …

The mass disappearance of North American birds is a dire warning about the planet’s well-being.

We’ve fine-tuned the 774M parameter GPT-2 language model using human feedback for various tasks, successfully matching the preferences of the external human labelers, though those preferences did not always match our own. Specifically, for summarization tasks…

Pavel Baudis built a massive software company out of Czech communism's ashes. It's made him a billionaire and protected millions from cybercriminals.

The best books on burnout and exhaustion, recommended by Josh Cohen, psychoanalyst and author of Not Working: Why We Have to Stop.

Big partners are coming to the Google sister company for real package deliveries.

We demonstrate quasi-phase-matched frequency conversion in a chip-integrated lithium niobate microring resonator, whose normalized efficiency reaches 230,000%/W or 10−6 per single photon.

GitHub Actions are still in beta and are changing quickly. But if you are looking to get started the possibilities are endless.

Arrhenius theorized that if atmospheric CO2 levels doubled, the Earth's surface temperatures would rise by 5°C to 6°C. Scientists now think 2°C to 3°C is more likely. Still, not bad for pencil, paper, and the amount of data available in 1895.

Chinese authorities have detained a FedEx pilot in the city of Guangzhou, elevating pressure on the company, which is already in Beijing’s crosshairs amid a U.S.-China trade war.

Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, explains how the U.S. economy is growing and actually using less and less stuff to do so. Thanks to new technologies, many advanced economies are reducing their use of timber, metals…

Though waterfowl and raptor populations have made recoveries, bird populations have declined since 1970 across nearly all habitats