Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the grap

How George Soros made his fortune on a daring bet against the British pound and the Bank of England.

The First Amendment is not about a law, but rather a culture — specifically a culture of liberty. It is essential to tech, and in this context, Facebook is mostly right about political ads (but can…

As the final model release of GPT-2’s staged release, we’re releasing the largest version (1.5B parameters) of GPT-2 along with code and model weights to facilitate detection of outputs of GPT-2 models. While there have been larger language models released…

A post by Stephen Diehl about Facebook Libra is making the rounds this morning. It makes a number of claims about flaws in the software. Many of these claims are factually inaccurate. I consider it to be a gish gallop that bombards you with a...

We take a deep dive into the history of Errors in JavaScript.

Nature - The system allows researchers more control over DNA changes, potentially opening up conditions that have challenged gene-editors.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AT&T will pay $60 million to resolve U.S. allegations it misled millions of smartphone customers by charging them for “unlimited” data plans that reduced data speeds if they used too much, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on…

Live Transcribe's speech recognition is provided by Google's state-of-the-art Cloud Speech API, which under most conditions delivers pretty impressive trannoscript accuracy.

How the type system makes view updates more efficient

Once you’ve placed your order, you should expect to pick up the drugs at the designated rendezvous point within an...

The mayors of Oakland, Sacramento and more than a dozen other California municipalities are joining San Jose in a campaign to buy out the investor-owned PG&E and turn it into a giant customer-owned cooperative.

A TV anchor says Buckingham Palace "threatened us a million different ways" to bury the story.

If you know the basics of Machine Learning you already know how to solve a large body of physics problems without realizing it.

In a leaked video released Tuesday, ABC News anchor Amy Robach said the network killed her story on wealthy pedophile Jeffrey Epstein under pressure from the British royal family.

Tom Workman’s name doesn’t appear in our report on the tests underpinning a million drunken-driving cases a year. But he was crucial to it.

Discovery and understanding of a product catalog is an important part of any e-commerce business. The traditional — and difficult — method…