A little while ago I was doing some research into the state-of-the-art for approximating subsurface scattering effects in real-time (mainly for skin rendering), and I had taken a bunch of loose notes to help me keep all of the details straight. I thought…

Quantum tunnelling effect reduces mask steps, slashes lead time

Course materials for Georgia Tech CS 4650 and 7650, "Natural Language" - jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class

A mother's search for inclusion and acceptance of her son finally has a hopeful chapter, thanks to New Brunswick's 'geek' community.

WeWork is thought to be in danger of running out of cash within a month if it doesn't get new funding soon. It had planned to cut jobs to save money.

Had the campaign to bring Freud to Mexico succeeded, the imperiled psychoanalyst would have found himself living among the world’s foremost artists and intellectuals.

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This is what our night sky is going to look like in 3.9 billion years: Wow! So what’s going on here? Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at NASA have predicted that our own Milky Way galaxy and the nearby Andromeda galaxy (M31

Over the past four years, the Heroku Runtime team has transitioned from occasional, manual deployments to continuous, automated deployments. Changes are...

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Note: The FTC hosted a conference call for media.

TechCrunch appears to have published a prewritten Snap earnings story before the numbers actually went public. Post has been taken down but was up for a few minutes https://t.co/ZlxmDSvHo5

A seminal paper from 2000 investigated the impact of blind auditions in orchestras, and found that they increased the proportion of women in symphony orchestras. I investigate the study, and find that there is no good evidence presented.

Today the @nytimes chose to eliminate my role, stating that there is no need for a dedicated focus on newsroom and journalistic security. I strongly believe in what I do (and what we did), and to say I’m disappointed would be an understatement. (1/3)

New research finds that high-tech inventors are significantly more productive when they work in large clusters—but there are drawbacks.