The owners of a Toronto coffee stand say Square Canada has told them they can no longer use the popular payment technology because of concerns the coffee stand is selling beverages made from Cuban coffee beans.

On the depredations of infinity.

How Snap, Inc. hired me by promising a huge equity grant and then pulled the rug out from under my feet.

Within the space of an hour. This didn’t happen by luck.

Great apes appear to have "theory of mind," and know when a human is being fooled by another ape.

We must be careful not to admonish our intuitive learners for being intuitive. As teachers of the gifted, we must set up learning environments that are best for our students. And if they're doing it all in their heads (and getting it right!), then the environment…

Researchers want to pave their own path. But the growing industry is still dependent on tech giants like Google and Microsoft.

Last year, the New York Public Library released an experiment to put the full text of novels in its Instagram Stories. Today, an estimated 300,000 people are reading books this way.

Facebook plans to allow opinion pieces and satire to be exempted from its fact-checking program, according to people familiar with the matter, as the social-media giant grapples with how to stop the spread of falsehoods while maintaining its own neutrality.

We recently met with GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij to talk all about how they scaled a multi-billion dollar company with beyond 800 employees, fully remotely.

A general OpenStreetMap editing workflow, with the example of Mapping the village of Marmari, Evia in Greece (Μαρμάρι, Εύβοια).

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The escalation in police tactics came amid violent demonstrations on National Day, a holiday commemorating Communist Party rule in China.

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