After the "Band in China" episode mocked Hollywood for shaping its content to please the Chinese government, Beijing has responded by deleting all clips, episodes and discussions of the Comedy Central show.

Asking for a repeat, but in a different speech synthesizer.

Watch the full episode - cart.mn/sp-2302 @THR article - cart.mn/china

This post provides an overview of a new technology from my lab that was recently published in VLDB 2019 . In short: SLOG is a geographicall...

A simple file encryption tool & format Filippo Valsorda (@FiloSottile) — Ben Cartwright-Cox (@Benjojo12) Designed at the Recurse Center during NGW 2019 This is a superseded design document, retained for historical reasons. You can find the v1 specification…

The utility said it has decided to implement the "public safety power shutoff" it began warning about Monday.

The justices let stand an appeals court ruling that the Americans With Disabilities Act protects access to retailer websites and apps.

A tweet from the Houston Rockets general manager prompted a backlash in China, making things uncomfortable for a league used to its players and representatives speaking out on politics.

What started as a quiet digital backwater is now growing in prominence, drawing the attention of audiences and moneyed interests alike. In all probability, the medium is heading toward the entertainment industrial complex.

OSLO (Reuters) - KLP, Norway’s largest pension fund, will no longer invest in companies deriving their income from oil sands, and recently sold stocks and bonds in such firms worth about $58 million, it said on Monday.

A team led by Carnegie's Scott S. Sheppard has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn.  This brings the ringed planet’s total number of moons to 82, surpassing Jupiter, which has 79.

Nature - The science is immature and a multi-purpose quantum computer doesn’t yet exist. But that isn’t stopping investors pouring cash into quantum start-ups.

Last Sunday, Hong Kong Hearthstone player Ng "blitzchung" Wai Chung caused quite the stir. As reported by Inven Global, Blitzchung appeared on the official Hearthstone Taiwan stream after his Grandmas

We have developed an alternative approach to teaching computer science students how to prove. First, students are taught how to prove theorems with the Coq proof assistant. In a second, more...

A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system. This data visualization was produced by Akihiko Kusanagi.

Here’s one for the techies: what’s the most asinine technical requirement you’ve ever had to work into a design? I’ll go first: I was doing development support on a bidirectional inventory...

The Bitter Southerner finds the best gas-station food in the Mississippi Delta.