New data suggest the New York Railroad Storm could have surpassed the intensity of the famous Carrington Event of 1859

Over the next 10-15 years, 29% of all voters believe it is at least somewhat likely that the earth will become uninhabitable and humanity will be wiped out. A ScottRasmussen.com national survey found that 71% disagree and find it unlikely. The totals include…

China suspected of stealing aviation secrets

The wait is finally over. The Strong Towns book is out today! Here is information on where to buy, as well as one simple, 30-second thing you can do that could make all the difference.

In 1978, the director of the CIA warned that excessive, impulsive secrecy was a danger — not only to the public’s right to know, but to the agency’s ability to keep the important secrets. 40 years later, that lesson still needs repeating.

In leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg said he would sue over Elizabeth Warren’s antitrust plan if she was elected president. She shot back.

After three years of quietly toiling away on a robotic food system, Seattle startup Picnic has emerged from stealth mode with a system that assembles custom pizzas with little human intervention.

Nature Communications - Little is known about the long-term effects of early-career setback. Here, the authors compare junior scientists who were awarded a NIH grant to those with similar track...

A report of
a boot hang in the 5.3 series has led to an enormous, somewhat contentious
thread on the linux-kernel mailing list. The proximate cause was some changes that made the
ext4 filesystem do less I/O early in the boot phase, incidentally causing
fewer…

Amazon's new Sidewalk protocol and Apple's experiments with ultra-wideband signal a new battleground that gets Amazon out of the house and Apple inside it

Streamlit, a new machine learning startup from industry veterans who worked at GoogleX and Zoox, launched today with a $6 million seed investment and a flexible new open-source tool to make it easier for machine learning engineers to create custom applications…

This founder "dated" six potential co-founders in the last year. Here's what she's learned.

Wolfram is offering a total of $30,000 in prize money to solve three problems concerning rule 30. Statement of problems to be solved, full guidelines, committee of judges and submission guidelines.

The study found that 43% of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were legacy, children of faculty and donors, or athletes.