Suppose you want to pick an integer at random in a set of N elements. Your computer has functions to generate random 32-bit integers, how do you transform such numbers into indexes no larger than N? Suppose you have a hash table with a capacity N. Again,…

Nearly 80 years ago, a construction standstill derailed the subway’s progress, leading to its present crisis. This is the story, decade by decade.

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Small backyard houses get a lot of attention as a solution to the housing crisis, but it’s a different idea in theory than it is when you try to put it into practice.

Top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia told Facebook today that they want backdoor access to all encrypted messages sent on all its platforms. In an open

Nature Communications - Mating between first or second-degree relatives is prohibited in most countries, yet it occurs and is under-studied. Here, Yengo et al. use large runs of homozygosity from...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc is taking to the air in New York City where users with a little cash to spare will soon be able to book helicopter flights to John F. Kennedy International airport through their apps.

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You can’t expect others to fix your problems. When you take responsibility for making the best of any situation, you have the power to make things better.

Chinese companies have suspended ties with the Rockets, one of the NBA’s most popular teams in China, after Houston’s general manager tweeted his support of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

A 1948 paper by Claude Shannon SM ’37, PhD ’40 created the field of information theory — and set its research agenda for the next 50 years.

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Zach Barth designed and developed Infiniminer, Spacechem, TIS-100, Shenzen I/O and other video games in a genre that has become named after him ("Zachlikes"). His company Zachtronics also developed a line of educational games. Zach came to Google to answer…

In this rare glimpse inside the BBC archives, we reveal the exasperated internal memos, the furious letters from wing commanders – and David Frost’s bid to bring them down

Fewer than 50 people outside the product team have actually flown the sim. I was lucky enough to be one of them.

Billions of people worldwide access the internet only through their phones. But using a cheap smartphone comes with some serious trade-offs.

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