Four African American women known as the "Hidden Figures" who worked at NASA during the Space Race are being awarded Congressional Gold Medals, the highest civilian award in the US.

In late January 2001, John L. Holahan III showed up for the first meeting of “The Startup Game,” an entrepreneurship course at Washington University. He was 31, married, and working on his MBA. The course sounded like fun—and it might prove useful. A chemical…

Widely used heartburn drugs are being recalled because of potential cancer risk.

It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a cognitive neuroscientist

Robots are coming to the massive ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, replacing dockworker jobs. But truckers are delighted, since they'll be able to move cargo faster, earning more money.

SQL? I thought CockroachDB was a key-value store?!? In the past we described CockroachDB as a distributed, transactionally consistent, key-value store.

Over 32 million people have had their health information breached this year.

As software developers, we are fortunate to have many useful best practices for productive and fun coding, like the SOLID principles…

How we became nostalgic for Minecraft

An extraordinary near-miss of history helps explain Brexit.

As the internet turns 50, the global vision that animated it is under attack. What can be done?

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During the early days of testing for the legendary SR-71 Blackbird there were some harrowing mishaps, the details of which have rarely come to light. On January 25, 1966, test pilot Bill Weaver and Lockheed flight test reconnaissance and navigation systems…

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

The Steam client for Linux now supports using namespaces (a.k.a containers) to run game noscripts. This feature is available in the latest Steam client beta, and can be used for all native Linux noscripts in your Steam library. In order to run a noscript in a container…