Our brains employ two modes of thinking to tackle any large task: focused and diffuse. Both are equally valuable but serve very different purposes. To do your best work, you need to master both.

"How can it be that two objects, initially traveling in parallel, can continue each moving in a straight line and yet end up meeting one another?" Jake reveals the answer in this interesting thought experiment.

No one knows why we walk. Out of some 250 species of primates, we are the only ones that have elected to get up and move around exclusively on two legs. Some authorities think bipedalism is at leas…

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the latest game from the company behind Pokémon Go, lets players harness the magic of their childhood to combat monsters and

When Marion Conlin gave birth to twins earlier than expected in a Brooklyn hospital in May 1920, one of her babies was already dead. Her doctor bluntly told the woman and her husband, Woolsey,...

Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard set the standard for how a business can mitigate the ravages of capitalism on earth’s environment. At 81 years old, he’s just getting started.

Microsoft today announced two new open-source projects: Dapr, a portable, event-driven runtime that takes some of the complexity out of building

Quick quiz! Given the following: Which overload gets called by the following? Alternatives: f(unsigned int) f(int) f(char) No-one knows the type of char + char If you answered 4), congratulations! …

Firm promises fix after couple discover any fingerprint can unlock the device when put in case.

🇪🇺🤝🇬🇧 Where there is a will, there is a #deal - we have one! It’s a fair and balanced agreement for the EU and the UK and it is testament to our commitment to find solutions. I recommend that #EUCO endorses this deal.

Simple scheduler for running jobs on GPUs. Contribute to ExpectationMax/simple_gpu_scheduler development by creating an account on GitHub.

Google devices chief Rick Osterloh said he believes anyone in proximity of a microphone-fitted smart device like Google Nest or Amazon Echo should be informed the devices are in use

Technological developments can be foreseen but the knowledge is largely useless because startups are inherently risky and require optimal timing. A more practical approach is to embrace uncertainty, taking a reinforcement learning perspective.

Working mothers have it tough in Japan – creating Instagram-worthy, healthy lunches is one of many pressures they say they face

Richard is a member of the Elm core team, the author of Elm in Action from Manning Publications, and the instructor for the Intro to Elm and Advanced Elm courses on Frontend Masters. He's been writing Elm since 2014, and is the maintainer of several open…

Creator of Elixir and cofounder of Plataformatec, José Valim discusses the lessons he learned while creating Elixir and his involvement in its future.