I didn't expect to find two floors filled with vintage computers in a small town outside Pittsburgh. But that's the location of the Large Sc...

If you're a conspicuous non-Japanese living in the country, then you've likely experienced the empty-seat phenomenon with varying frequency and intensity.

A small number of prolific U.S. Twitter users create the majority of tweets, and that extends to Twitter discussions around politics, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center out today. Building on an earlier study, which discovered that 10%…

A bunch of rats have learned how to drive tiny vehicles around to pick up food. How did this unlikely scenario come around? Well, for a surprisingly intere

Amazon might need to spend billions of dollars in the future to prevent the sale of counterfeit goods, expired food or dangerous products on its platforms to preserve the customer trust that is critical to the company’s future, Amazon consumer chief Jeff…

San Francisco is losing one of its most valuable tech startups as Stripe signs a lease in...

I. Embrace Reality and Deal With It

Over the last month, Stack Overflow has violated its own policies
and precedents to cause egregious and unnecessary harm to me -- to my
reputation (personal and professional), to my health, and to my

As an iOS development community, we need to talk about APIs. Apple has created an incredible platform with powerful APIs for us to build on, but we should be mindful of getting locked in. While adopting the latest APIs and language features is in the best…

 
Upon hearing of Italo Calvino’s death in September of 1985, John Updike commented, “Calvino was a genial as well as brilliant writer. He took fiction into new places where it had never been before, and back into the fabulous and ancient sources of narrative.”…

I have developed some interest in the Rust programming language. Rust is a systems programming language which means it gets out of the way of developers interested in reaching low-level internals of a system. What sets it aside from other systems languages…

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The bluish light is efficient but worse for preserving dark skies.

Hey, /r/juststart! My name’s Arsen. I am here to tell you a story about my failure. I’ll try to do it in the least boring way, but if you are...

You’ve been clickbaited by your own brain.

Back in June, Mozilla announced Firefox Preview, an early version of the new browser for Android that is built on top of Firefox's own mobile ...

Visiting Iceland in the age of overtourism.