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

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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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WASHINGTON/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - An increasing number of U.S. lawmakers voiced anger on Monday over the NBA’s response to a Houston Rockets official’s tweet backing Hong Kong democracy protests, raising U.S.-China tensions as talks to end a 15-month trade…

The FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules has been significantly weakened by a federal appeals court, which ruled that the Commission could not preempt

As a reminder, Mac software distributed outside the Mac App Store must be notarized by Apple in order to run on macOS Catalina. To make this transition easier and to protect users on macOS Catalina who continue to use older versions of software, we’ve adjusted…

Learn the two different techniques of API versioning so you can decide how and when to use each.

The popular app doesn’t tell users when a video was posted. Creators say that makes it easier to steal content—but there are also upsides to forgetting what day it is.

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I recently found a surprising leak vector in Windows 10 installations. We were porting our Beacon to Windows and for easy deployment…