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.

The episode criticized American entertainment leaders for catering to China's censorship rules.

When one of the world’s most respected newspapers went up against former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his daughter and backed down, Wylie decided to go to The New York Times.

Facetious statement comes after reports that show was banned in China after episode critical of the country

During the Asia-Pacific Grandmasters broadcast over the weekend there was a competition rule violation during a post-match interview.

Failure to enforce basic standards of public behavior has made one of America’s great cities increasingly unlivable.

With a population of over 87,000, Lower Duck Pond is the largest, friendliest, and oddest city that’s not on the map.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded "for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos" with one half to James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology", the other half jointly…

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