Forget Gordon Gekko. Computers increasingly call the shots in financial markets

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Consumer Reports looks at the surprise cable company fees and add-ons that can jack up consumers' bills. Our research shows advertised cable TV prices don't reflect what you really have to pay, and fees continue to rise.

If you see how cars, streetcars, bikes, and pedestrians use this Swiss street, you can better understand what’s wrong with so many other urban thoroughfares.

Publishers, reviewers and other members of the scientific community must fight science’s preference for positive results — for the benefit of all, says Devang Mehta.

🖖 Vue.js is a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web. - vuejs/core

Nature - The chemical feat strengthens theory that the first life on Earth was based on RNA.

Schools have been on a mission to reinvent campus libraries—even though students just want the basics.

Thanks everyone, @Apple finally made the right decision. Will update later as things are going crazy in #HK now.

Mathematically modeling how epilepsy acts on the brain is one of the major topics of research in neuroscience. Recently I came across this paper by Oscar Benjamin et al., which I thought that it would be cool to implement and experiment with. The idea behind…

How a Twitch-streamed no-limit hold’em player found himself at the heart of one of the most fascinating gambling controversies in years

A proposed memory controller can cut RAM usage in LInux server by up to 40%.

Hollis Robbins looks at the history of "Robert's Rules" and the family of its creator.

Emily Prifogle reviews Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom by Sarah A. Seo

When will the leaves start changing? When will they peak? Our Nationwide 2025 Fall Foliage Map and leaf prediction tool has answers and progressive county-level predictions.

The high-stress, low-reward world of the page turner.

PayPal was one of several corporate backers of Facebook's cryptocurrency project.