Have you ever imagine that @facebook is crawling links in your pdf files when you are sending them via messenger?

While lawmakers and regulators look to combat monopolies by online giants, some innovators are developing internet platforms to prevent monopolies from forming in the future.

Steve Klabnik's personal website

Forensic scientists, the police and crime scene investigators master horror with a steady hand. This article gives a rare insight into the post-mortem examination of a homicide.

Dozens of accounts were suspended without reason during rare anti-government protests, new research shared with BuzzFeed News shows.

How can you be in two places at once When you’re not anywhere at all — Firesign Theater [Note: this is NOT original research. I just read the right book] The famous double slit experime…

Pondering the success that Penn Jillette, the loud half of Penn & Teller, found as a sometimes-rebellious big-name computer magazine columnist in the ’90s.

An online tool used in Taiwan could help defuse political rows across the globe.

Donut crumbs also once tested positive for meth.

In the 18th century, the great scientific challenge of the age was to find a way for mariners to determine their position at sea. One of the most successful solutions was to measure the position of the moon in the sky relative to the fixed background of stars. …

As a learning and practice exercise I built a crate and TUI for interacting with the Lobsters programming community website.

Economists greatly underestimate the price tag on harsher weather and higher seas. Why is that?

Lapsus Lima | Mythologics | In which Francis Young transports us to the makeshift spacetime of They Who Should Not Be Named.

Investors and credit-rating firms are growing concerned about rising risks at SoftBank after the conglomerate’s nearly $10 billion bailout of WeWork.

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML),
such as computer vision, are now available as intelligent services and their
accessibility and simplicity is compelling....

Research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family - google-research/dex-lang

Patents give their owners the power to stop people (and companies) from doing whatever the patent claims as an “invention” for twenty years. But that power doesn’t come for free: it’s a trade. In